Moonkiroe is video game project, whose whole graphical parts are made with Blender. It is Massive Online Role Playing Game in isometric 2D view, using 3D renders as sprites. The core game itself is developed using GameMaker with some C help.

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Blender Basics in Russian
I don't understand the language but the site looks like it has some nice tutorials on it.

And this…
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I was looking through the SIGGRAPH Animation Festival schedule and discovered that Nils Thuery's Magic Fluid Controls Animation starring Mancandy is on the list. Nice to see a Blender animation at SIGGRAPH. You'll find it listed about two thirds of the way down on the site.

Nils' animations and papers

I'm just wondering why Elephant's Dream wasn't on the list too?

MaPZone, a Windows-based procedural texture editor, makes the bold claim of being the "most powerful texturing tool ever". Well…they've certainly made the effort to live up to the claim. What do you think?

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It is finally time to vote for the winner of the 2007 Blender F1 Challenge. No less than 55 contestants participated this time, so there is quite a run for the 1st prize (A Blender Logo T-Shirt, Animusic 2 DVD, “Introducing Character Animation with Blender” book by Tony Mullen with a Sybex logo T-shirt).

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Mike Smick wrote to us regarding a Blender class he'll be teaching.

Nothing big, but I'm teaching a 2 part 3 hour (6 hr total) Blender class in Kansas City on July 18 and July 19. It's through a community class summer program of University of Missouri Kansas City. It's called "Introduction to 3D graphics using Blender."

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These just keep popping out all over the place! Renderlight is another unbiased rendering engine with support for Blender.

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Osalt is an interesting website with a focus on providing a detailed listing of alternatives to commercial software. And can we all guess what software has been provided as an alternative…

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People always ask me if it`s possible to produce high quality content for TV with Blender. Well, a Brazilian animation studio has produced some great TV Commercials with Blender! The studio is called ZQuatro and is located in Recife/Brazil.

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Ricardo Graça has made this no less than 6 min short, which is quite an achievement. He made it all by himself and spent about 2 years working on/off to complete it. "Nós somos assim" is Portuguese and means "That’s what we are".

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A quick reminder that you can check out the official and the latest Blender builds at the following sites:

Official Blender site download

Graphicall Eugene has posted the optimized builds of version 2.44

Blender Builds

Blender Site Test Builds

This is another excellent tutorial from BlendedPlanet. I'm sure you all remember the previous tutorials and resources we've posted from BlendedPlanet. This new one covers one of the most difficult things to key, hair.

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There's plenty of info available on how to create screencapture videos for the Windows and Mac platforms but, what about Linux? Chris Cherrett has come up with a simple (and free) solution…

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AnimWatch is having an animation challenge in hopes of helping to fill the void from the loss of the Ten Second Club. This looks like it could be a fun challenge. And the Blender community has a large amount of resources available to quickly start animating. Including the large collection of complete rigs.

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Campbell Barton (ideasman42) has come up with a new method of achieving NPR (Non Photo Realistic) renderings with a sketchy look. This method differs from many others in that it is not that much a post or 2D based effect, but an actual alteration of the geometry itself using Blender’s modifiers.

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Starting this summer another Blender book will be in progress by the talented Tony Mullen. And this one looks to be an exciting one. The one thing that really makes me smile about this book is that it will be in full color. And it will cover some of the deep mysteries involving simulations (hair, particles, etc.) in Blender.
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The German version of the Blender Documentation is the book of the month at the German Wikibooks site.

Puppetry and Blender. A real time capture while manipulating your character in Blender. Keith Lango wrote about on his site last March and you can read the Blender Artist thread.

Here's an example of a real time 3D puppet on YouTube though I don't believe it's done with Blender.

Andrew From Mexico blog has a lot of information as well.