Kernon Dillon from BlenderNewbie has published a three-part videotutorial on the creation of a magic wand particles effect.

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Article submitted by Chris Want. Student Jingyuan Huang (aka yukishiro) has been working hard on her Google Summer of Code project "Blender Light Paint using Spherical Harmonics", an interactive tool for artists to create, modify, and preview image-based lighting environments specified by HDR light probe images.

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Sebastian Pelan is working on a setup to make Blender camera manipulation more intuitive for filmmakers.

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Jonathan Williamson has just posted a overview video of 2.5 so far, demonstrating some of the changes we're seeing coming to the next big release and redesign of Blender.

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A new Blender training is planned from July 20-24th in Moncada, Valencia, Spain.

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BlenderTips.com contains a large number of video and text tutorials. If you're new to Blender this may be an excellent way to get up to speed quickly.

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Pildanovak has developed a very useful composite node which can make bas-reliefs out of regular 3d models. Originally bas-reliefs can be seen throughout the art history but are very difficult to make by hand (be it in real-life or 3d).

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Learn how to make great looking trees in this 30 minute videotutorial by Andrew Price.

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Bobby Beck,  CEO of Animation Mentor will conducting a Webinar interview with Disney Producer Don Hahn

"Don Hahn recently edited a two-book compilation of Disney icon Walt Stanchfield's  drawings and teachings. Hear how Walt Stanchfield mentored a generation of influential animators in the industry."

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A few weeks ago I reviewed the DAVID 3D scanner for Shapeways. I tested it on the Suzanne statue that I won a couple of years back and was quite happy with the results (model download included ;-)

Of course, I had to return the unit so I was wondering: is anyone aware of a free (as in speech) setup to achieve similar results?

cmiVFX have announced their second Blender training video. This one is created by Sebastian König (see also Sebastian's other videos on BlenderNation) and focuses on organic modeling techniques such as sculpting, weight mapping, retopology and shrink wrapping.

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CurtisS wrote:

Hello all. The 2009 Blender F1 Challenge has concluded and the results are in…

ZORDAN defends his Title as the Blender F1 Champion!

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Here's a good videotutorial by the Process Diary that'll explain many rigging concepts. If you're an absolute rigging beginner, I recommend you read up on a few tutorials first - some good links are included in the article.

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The people behind the popular tutorials site CG Cookie have just launched a new online CG training website. They'll be supporting Blender right from the start.

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I used to think we shouldn't post Blender sightings on BN anymore, but they just keep coming! I guess people just really like them, so here goes - we'll collect them and post compilations every now and then. Enjoy! :)

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Marco Rapino is doing the coolest experiments with Blender. Last time, he linked his N95's accelerometer to Blender. Today, he shows how to do real-time laser or object tracking using nothing more than a webcam, a laser pointer and a pen.

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Stay for a week in a space radio observatory in Russia and learn all you can about Blender! Sounds awesome :)

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101 entries. 5 votes. Go!

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