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.

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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