Blenderheads can now breath a collective sigh. If you haven't noticed BlenderArtists.org is back online. You can read why it was down in our previous post here.

So visit and rejoice.

During a recent return flight I came upon an article in the airline's on board magazine discussing a virtual world program on the internet called Second Life. Up until now I had never heard of it. Essentially it's a Virtual Reality World where the users can meet, build products and buildings, buy and sell property, goods and services using "Linden Dollars"

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Fitchmicah has posted a nice setup for rendering clouds with SSS on BlenderArtists. There's another example in the Test section by Cyborg Dragon (without .blend or explanation), but I think fitchmicah's looks better.

After working on BlenderNation every single day for the last year and a half, it's time for me to take a break. My personal live is quite busy at the moment: I bought a new house that I'll need to work on, my own company is doing very well and last but not least, I'm going to be a father in October! :) Sometimes it's just too hard to also spend 1-2 hours a day on running BlenderNation so I decided I could use a 'vacation' from running this website.

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As we all know, Blender is open for customization as it is open-source. Rarely though do we actually see any projects customizing Blender much, but here is one example: NeuroVR editor.

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Five days have already gone by and the first TOSMI is near its end. But hold on tight, although its near its end, its far from over, just read how hectic it has been for the last 3 days.

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Bad news! Due to a remote shutdown and a vacation of the main contact person, BlenderArtists.org will be unavailable until Monday. Roel Spruit, the 'manager' of BlenderArtists, assured me that they'll be back :) If in the mean time you're going cold turkey and you need to post on a forum, I can recommend the Blender forum on CGTalk.

It seems like every time we mention the Blender Model Repository here at BlenderNation, it's more bad news. That's why I'm so happy to bring you good news today straight from the fingers of Dion Moult, who is hosting and maintaining the latest iteration of the BMR. Continue Reading 'Latest Blender Model Repository News' »

You guys must be thinking this sentence is wrong because a lot of Portuguese forums are already available online, true. But all of them are for Brazil and not Portugal, this is the first and only forum available to BlenderHeads that live in Portugal.

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When asked to create a 2D logo of a woman in warrior pose holding a Lotus flower, Robert Peake decided to use Blender. He describes the process of its creation on his website.

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The second day of TOSMI ended and we are really happy about how things are evolving, not only are the trainees catching up but they are also enthusiastic about it, we can surely say they are more motivated then we anticipated.

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On Thursday, may 24th, Dolf Veenvliet, Sacha Goedegebure and Ton Roosendaal will be speaking at the Blender Event 2007, at the Selexyz bookstore in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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First, before saying anything, please allow me to publicly apologize for the extreme delay in updating the gallery on Blender.org. I slipped up and missed the March update and for that I'm sincerely sorry. I won't let that happen again. That said, there have some really great submissions in the last two months! The gallery has been updated and you can see how much good work is coming out of our community. The current gallery page has work from April and here's a direct link to the March gallery. Which ones are your favorites?

The Open Material Library is a new Blender material repository and even though it's still in beta (in good web 2.0 fashion), I think we may have a winner here!

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"Blender 2.44 was intended to be an upgrade release, mainly for plenty of bug fixes, but the developers took the effort of adding at least a few interesting new features."

Now there's an understatement.

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Although you never know with Open Source software ("it'll be ready when it's ready"), it looks like the release of 2.44 is near. For now, all we can report on is that the new 2.44 splash screen has been committed to CVS (or rather to SVN, as the developers are in the middle of a switch to the new version management system). The new splash is designed by @ndy, who seems to have a thing for gecko's ;-)