If you have an insatiable hunger for themes then check this out: gls wrote in to report on his personal Blender theme repository.

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3DTotal.com features a face modeling tutorial by Oskar Swierad and Kamil Makowski. Their workflow incorporates Blender, ZBrush and Photoshop.

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Here are three short items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a German magazine and TV show, and a Brazilian newspaper.

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After our post about Radiance's latest work, you might be looking at Indigo and wondering how to use it with Blender. Look no further! Radiance has posted an excellent (and extensive) tutorial on using Indigo with Blender.

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Michael Tiemann, VP of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat and BlenderNation reader, has posted a suggestion at Wikipedia's Village Pump to adopt the COLLADA format for publishing 3D content.

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Here's a site that has a very good collection of high resolution and FREE textures. All of the textures where taken by the sites author so there’s no question of ownership. Animals, furs, wood metals and many more. The animal pictures are good enough to use for reference material as well.

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While visiting BlenderArtists you might have come across this wonderful image by radiance in the Final Projects section.  From the post: 

My latest architectural project, modelled in blender 2.42 and rendered with Indigo 0.6test1. Everything from and including the first floor up is a render (including the physical sky…

Amazing work radiance!

Daniel Salazar (ZanQdo) of GraphicAll has posted a sweet Windows build of the latest CVS. You have to check this out.

*Please note that builds from the CVS are not considered final builds and should be used for feature testing only.

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Chris Stones has an interesting collection of videos on his blog. Many of them are funny or experimental, some are about video editing techniques and I found one in which he shows how he uses Blender in his workflow as an illustrator.

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James Davis pointed us to a tutorial by Ben Discoe from the Virtual Terrain Project (VTP) on creating models for VTP and Open Scene Graph (OSG) using Blender.

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Ton has announced the call for content for the Blender Art Festival on Blender.org. The Blender Art Festival is a regular part of the Blender Conference program: everyone is invited to submit their work, and prizes (a Suzanne Statue and €250, rougly $320) are available for the best artists in the categories Best Online Art Gallery, Best Character Animation and Best Animation, original idea or story. The voting will be done by the visitors of the Blender Conference.

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the_nr posted about a neat effect he came up with to simulate an x-ray scan.  It involves a blend texture mapped to an animated empty and great use of the compositing nodes.  You can see the main post the describes how it was done here, and the video of the effect (XviD) here (remember to right click and save as).  Nice one the_nr!

Here's another great animation tutorial by George Maestri, the original animation producer of “South Park”. Earlier we posted his tutorial 'Anatomy of a Walk'. This time, he explains the fine details of animating reptiles and of snakes in particular.

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Steve Alvis wrote us about using Blender to import data from Graph Calc, a free graphing calculator for Windows and Linux which can be used to graph 3d functions.

Steve writes:

You are not only limited to Cartesian coordinates, but you can use polar coordinates too. The 3d graphs can export to DXF which are compatible with blender. You just have to remove doubles in the edit mode to make it look right.

Nice tip – thanks Steve!

The internet film festival Webcuts is back, showing the best internet films from around the world. This year, Webcuts.06 (sponsored by MentalImages no less) takes place on October 12th, 2006 in Berlin (Germany) and is currently accepting submissions.  The deadline for submissions is set for September 15th, 2006 – so now is the time to submit!

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We are sure you remember the Google SoC project by Nicholas Bishop entitled “Interactive Sculpting with Multi-Resolution Models." If not check out our articles here and here, and download the latest build.  Using this tool, Scott Wilkinson (Ex-Nihilo) has posted an amazing model on cgtalk and he has even made the .blend file available.

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Clayton Sandham (CGuy) has made a tutorial for us to show how he produced his 2.42 splash screen contest entry.  Not only is the image geometrically stunning, but it uses the array modifier and YafRay to make it happen.

You can find the tutorial here.