Colin Levy, the artist of "Handscape" and the caretaker of Icarus (and maker of it's video tutorials) also has an unscripted video tutorial discussing camera mapping (a.k.a front projection mapping) in Blender with his brother Alex. Since it's unscripted, let's just call it "Camera Mapping In Blender With Colin and Alex Levy: Live!"

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Back in February we asked you to make us proud by submitting your Blender art to the German 2D/3D competition Animago. Well, you did!

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Deep Thought, the man who brought us the Icarus import script, has written a great introduction to compositing in Blender using the greatly anticipated nodes system.

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We first reported about the Argentinean movie project Plumiferos two months ago. Since then, much progress has been made and it's about time for an update.

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jms has posted updates to his kml/kmz import scripts (version 0.1.4 released May 25th) for importing SketchUp And Google Earth files into Blender. Here are the changes (inlcuding the 0.1.3 update) from the site:

__version__ = "0.1.3, 20 May 2006" :
Manage placemark

__version__ = "0.1.4, 25 May 2006" :
Manage color by placemark

We wrote earlier about Firefox Flicks Blender Animations. During the creation of the FoxFire entry the author has written a really good tutorial on using Blender's Sequencer and the Alpha Over effect in particular. This is a great effect and an even greater mystery to many, but this tutorial will help you understand just how to setup one of the most popular sequencing effects!

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The Firefox Flicks competition is over and two entries have been made (partially) using Blender. Both of them have posted detailed descriptions of their work and made the .blend files available.

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The fourth issue of Blenderart Magazine is now available for download. This issue is extra large and has some nice articles dealing with character modeling.

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Blender fits well into many different kinds of work, from film to urban planning. So who is the Blender artist that fits into the children’s book industry that nets 4.4 billion USD (pdf) (3.4 billion EUR) annually in the US alone? His name is Nick Towers, an artist that creates visually stunning art aimed at children’s book illustration using Blender.

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Alexander Ewering (intrr), has introduced a Blender project fork to create a desktop publishing software called DTPBlender.

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Yesterday we reported that three Blender projects were accepted for the Google Summer of Code. There is, however, a fourth Blender related project: Soya3D exporting/importing tools for Blender.

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Have you been feeling depressed because you missed out on entering the 2006 F1 Challenge? Well today is your lucky day!

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The Google Summer of Code Blender project acceptance results are in, and like many of you, we are shocked that so few Blender projects were accepted this year (in 2005, ten projects were accepted). That being said, some amazing new features will come out of SoC this year, and we're grateful to Google for their funding and support of these projects.

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Illusoft has released an update to their vital Collada 1.4 plugin for Blender (now version 0.2.22) with some major enhancements (do I hear materials?).

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Erwin Coumans is working on integrating his Bullet Physics Library into the game engine for the upcoming 2.42 release. In order to test it and to have some cool demos when it is released, he is challenging you to come up with a cool game prototype that uses his library.

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Would you like to seriously pump up your character animation skills? Want to get personalized instruction from industry leaders from the comfort of your easy chair? Check out The Online Animation School at www.animationmentor.com.

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Congratulations to BackiZ for his excellent entry which won him the April challenge at Blender Battles, the monthly Blender art contest.

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Robert Schober has directed/created a music video using Blender for all modeling and animation. The video, "Dear Valentine" is the first animated video for The Burning Tree Projekt for their debut on MTV CHI and Asia.

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