In 3D World’s question of the month the question “How do I animate a raft adrift on the surface of the ocean?” was answered by Bassam Kurdali with a Blender tutorial. It is now free for download in .pdf form complete with sample files at different stages.

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Matt has done some work to attempt to emulate 3DS Max functionality in Blender. This functionality is parametric objects.

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Have you ever tried tiling a texture, only to find that the lighting in the texture image is not uniform? Dark and light areas shows like a pattern throughout the tiles, ruining your image even though your edges might be seamless enough?

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There is no better way to learn Blender than stepping into a simple project. And this tutorial will let you do just that.

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Google has spoken – five students working on Blender projects will be sponsored this summer. The winning projects are all great upgrades for Blender. Read on for more details.

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The company behind this chip has upon request received original renderers of Elephants Dream from the Blender Foundation. These were used to test the 2K video screening capabilities of their new JPEG 2000 decoder chip.

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Every once in awhile some impressive things pop up for Blender users to learn from and experiment with. This is one of those things.

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Blenderart Magazine is preparing for their 10th issue and they are looking for content. Sandra Gilbert sent in the following call for content:

It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue #10 of Blenderart Magazine. In this issue we are focusing on ‘Organic Modeling’.

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Imperitor wrote this nice grass tutorial on the Blender Artists forums. It goes through the process of making grass in Blender step by step in an easily comprehendible way. This is a good tutorial for anyone wanting to make grass in Blender, or someone new to the particle system.

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