I arrived in Boston this Saturday afternoon and went to the Boston Convention Center straight away to check out the status of the Open Source Pavilion and to meet the crew.

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Christian Krupa of Shroomstudio has posted about a promotional video for a band called Fightstar that he (and others) made using Blender (and I imagine other tools).

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It's that time of the year again! Just before Siggraph we publish a compilation of the greatest Blender work to show the rest of the world what we've been up to and what Blender is capable of.

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BlenderArt Magazine is the free periodic Blender Magazine that covers one or two specific themes in each issue. This issue's theme is Modeling Techniques and Python Scripts. If you're looking for character-, low-poly- o treemodeling tutorials, be sure to check it out!

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We are excited… extremely excited. Excited enough to post about the upcoming events.

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After the release of the ClubSilo demo, we were all reminded that the Blender game engine still can rock the casbah. Lucky for us, the talented people that develop and/or use the game engine are nice enough to share tips and tricks with those who are willing to look at them.

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With the release of 2.42a, we all got many new features, but perhaps you want more?

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As usual, the 2.42 release is followed up by a bugfix release. The main reasons were a completely broken game Player (on all platforms) and a recompile with the latest Python version for Linux users.

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The organization of the Montréal Blender Conference have opened a  website with new information and they're asking everyone to register. Attendance is free so if you live in the area I recommend that you pay them a visit!

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This one has been around for a while, but it is one of my favorite Blender links so I thought I should share it with you.

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The Blender Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects are still in full swing and the projects are usually quiet until they are finally released.  We've looked at the very early stages of the Sculpt tool, and now I ask Ben Batt (artificer) about his Modifier Stack Upgrade.

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I remember when I first saw an autostereogram image. It took me a while to figure out how to see it, but then the concept of a three-dimensional image being hidden in another image blew my mind. Kapil Hari Paranjape describes how you can create these images for yourself using Blender, the Gimp and StereoGraph.

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You might remember our post about ClubSilo, the racing game using the game engine and modeling tools in Blender. Now, rather than looking at nice screenshots, you can experience the game for yourself.

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Bassam and Andy, both members of the team that created Elephants Dream, will be flying to Argentina to join the Plumiferos team for one month.

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Need to build/animate/render a 3D model on the train?  Bored out of your mind at a meeting? Looking for the power of Blender 2.42 in the palm of your hand?  Then BlenderPocket 2.42 is just what you were looking for… Blender for your PocketPC!

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