Yesterday a new distribution of Linux that's designed for media production was released: Ubuntu Studio. Unlike the distribution it's based on, Ubuntu Studio is not a "Live CD" distro. Rather, it's designed to run close to the metal and take as much advantage of your hardware as possible. It sports an impressive list of bundled applications for audio production, graphics creation, animation, and even some video. Of course, Blender 2.43 is prominently included.

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There seems to be some spring cleaning and rearrangement around Blender these days. An announcement regarding projects.blender.org has been made by Ton Roosendaal.

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If you need to calculate the volume of an object, here's a nice script that will help you do it. It was coded by GreyBeard following a question on BlenderArtists.

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The BlenderGalactica.com team has been working on a new project: BlenderGates. Their aim is to provide freely downloadable Stargate SG-1/Atlantis models for Blender.

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Here's another interesting project from the Arabic Blender community: a short animation, enigmatically called '5A'. It is directed by Samran Abed AlSalam and created by a small team of five people.

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spaghettimoon.co.uk has a collection of tutorials available for your learning pleasure. What lead us to the website were some tutorials we discovered that involved the creation of a character in Blender.
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If you're looking to do some occasional paid Blender work, make sure you keep an eye on BlenderJobs.com.

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Jim Chronister, author of the acclaimed classroom tutorial book 'Blender Basics', is preparing a series of Blender trainings at the Central Dauphin School in Harrisburg, PA.

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This is *very* last minute, but the 2.44 Splash screen contest started last Sunday and will end, erm.., tomorrow! Details on BlenderArtists.org. Maybe next time, someone will let us know a bit earlier? ;-)

Gmueckl, the author of Moonlight3D, has posted an article on Slashdot in which he states that Blender, despite all its strengths, is 'showing its age all along and efforts to improve on it have either been blocked or have failed in the past'.

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Maybe you've heard the whispers in the air of the new features being developed. One of the most noticed by many involves some updates being made to the internal rendering engine. Specifically, the edition of more rendering controls that now allow the creation of caustic effects.

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Daniel Martinez Lara seems to be getting quite well into Blender. He has now made this simple but great leg rig. It uses very few handles (only around 2-3) without compromising the functionality even the slightest.

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The first Release Candidate for Blender 2.44 is now available from blender.org!

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Recently, we posted about a subsurface scattering node that was being developed. Well the good news is that its now integrated into the internal renderer and will be part of the 2.44 release.

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A new Blender book has been published in Spain. It's title is "Blender. Curso de Iniciación" (Blender, an introduction course)

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