Enrico Valenza, winner of the animation award of the Blender Animation Festival 2005, has written a tutorial on the character animation of 'PengZilla', the dancing penguin/bird character in his winning movie.

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The Blenderart Magazine editors are gathering content for their next issue. The theme is going to be 'Rendering'.

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Things are going well with my new site. Hundreds of people visit each day and the number of visitors is continually rising. It must mean I'm on to something :). To celebrate this I've moved it to a new domain: www.blendernation.com.

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A new Community Journal is out, packed with cool Blender art, an interview with Jan Kurka, an article about 'Transcendent' (a first-person shooter Blender game), and a few good tutorials.

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Void has worked for a Romanian magazine called MyLinux and during that period he has written a couple of articles on Blender. One issue that contains his work is now available for free.

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Sago has posted a hilarious 'Ton Roosendaal Action Figure' image on Elysiun. In case you're wondering, Ton pointed out this image to me himself so I think it's a safe bet he likes it ;-).

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After posting 'Blender for PocketPC revived' earlier this week, Joel Schlosberg asked me about the history of the Blue Alien character. I talked to Ton and did some digging on the internet and I can now proudly present you the shortened biography of our blue friend :)

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