If you're into game design with Blender, then here's a valuable addition to your library. 'Designing Arcade Game Graphics' by Ari Feldman has been released for free by Wordware Publishing.

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Need some real looking explosions for your next cinematic masterpiece?  Then this is the site for you.

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The Australian linux.conf.au will be held at the University of New South wales, in Sydney, Australia from Januari 15 – 20. Part of their program is the 'Open Day' on the 18th. The organisation has invited Elephants Dream lead artist Matt Ebb to give a Blender demo, but he could use your help.

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The Blender 2.0 Guide has long been sold out. However if you want to have a look at it, you can now turn to Google Books.

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Our birthday party is over and I'm overwhelmed by the result. Initially, I had my reservations about us being able to reach our goal, and never had I expected you to be this generous! On the fourth day we had already collected $3350 and the school-o-meter turned into an explode-o-meter :). Read on for more information about the donations and about the next steps.

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Jon McKay (Ammusionist) has posted a pdf on BA about creating an eyeball.  Been there, done that you say?  Think again.  Jon breathes new life into creating an old favorite.

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Last month we mentioned that issue 68 of LinuxUser & Developer magazine featured an interview with Blender's lead developer Ton Roosendaal. Editor Daniel James then promised us we could publish the interview text later on and he kept his word: here's the full interview! Thanks, Daniel!

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Alex Monita wrote to us about the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro, California, where they are successfully teaching Blender to teenagers. They are looking to expand their initiative and to do so they need Blender Teachers!

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We posted a while back about a script for bringing in chemical structures that are in the standard pdb (protein data bank) format into Blender. After several months Malte Reimold (intermalte) has updated the script.

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Here's a site with free character references. It's from Got3d – 3d Models and Textures. Each character is a high resolution, full body in front of a green screen, All sides are projected. There are also some free models made in light wave and 3Dmax that can be imported into Blender. Though the edge loops were a bit screwy but maybe that has something to do with the Blender import script.

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Here's something nice to watch if you have some time left this weekend. Roger did some alien head modeling in about 35 minutes, recorded it all and plays it back at twice the speed.

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Ralph Jimenez wrote to us about a visualisation he did of the "heme domain of FixL" molecule. The image was an entry for a competition at the University of Colorado and it was selected for an exhibition.

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Maqs at the Subdivisionmodeling forum has posted some incredibly detailed examples of using Blender sculpt.

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The German Institute for Robotics and Process Control has developed software that allows you to scan 3D objects using a very low-budget setup.

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They just keep popping up everywhere. Another new character rig is now available. Otto is the name of the rig and its based on the techniques demonstrated at the Blender conference.

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With the availability of release candidate 1, we're getting that much closer to the final release of the much anticipated Blender 2.43.

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That's right. To celebrate BlenderNation's first Birthday, rather than giving BN something, let's give a whole school to those who need it.

WE MADE IT: $3650 RAISED IN FOUR DAYS!!

Don't stop giving yet; read the update at the bottom of this article.

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