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The Blender Institute Office

The Blender Institute!Ton Roosendaal does a high-paced tour of the Blender Institute offices, complete with a ‘room to put the bad coders’, the ‘STFU corner’ and, of course, a Blender logo on the front door (albeit on the wrong side ;-)

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rocketman_infinitum.jpgWhile we were teaching at Red Hat High, Sam Brubaker (Rocketman) decided that he was going to release the .blend file to his animation, Infinitum, under a Creative Commons license. Infinitum won the 2006 Suzanne Award for “Best Animation, original idea, or story”. He has chosen the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommericial license 3.0.

Get the Infinitum .blend file (right-click and Save As). Have fun!

Red Hat High 2007

rhhshirt-logo_sm.jpgLast week, the second Red Hat High technology camp ended. You may recall that we reported around this time last year about 3 members of the Blender community traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina to teach at the first ever Red Hat High technology camp. This year, we had 4 Blender instructors from the community, and based on the incredible work produced by students last year, we had a better idea of what to expect. We decided to put greater emphasis on animation this year and the students rose to the challenge, blowing all of us away.

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Making of Child`s Nightmare

Child`s NightmareA few weeks ago the CG Arena has announced the winners from their challenge, and the big winner was Maciej Kotlinski, from Poland. The deal is that Maciej, used Blender and Gimp only to create his winner image called “Child`s Nightmare”.

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TOSMIThe second session of TOSMI is drawing near (6th – 12th of August).

If you missed the deadline to submit your application you are in luck, seems like there are two more scholarships available.

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gWiggle Script

gWiggleHave you ever needed an animation in which one object should make random moves? Well, there is a very nice script called gWiggle developed by g-LuL. But how it works?

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Chicken 1

Created with Blender this was William’s demo presentation for the the Peach project and he was accepted as a spare “which means I will be going to Amsterdam if there are any extra funds. I’m crossing my fingers!”

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Z Twist Tip

An UGLY Z-Twist!If you’ve ever worked with curves and extrusion objects, you’ve probably run into the ‘Z Twist’ problem. Bassam Kurdali has found a simple way to fix this.

lineDstudioA new resource for artists that use Blender to create architectural visualization is available, with downloads of furniture models, tutorials and scripts. All this is provided by a site called LineDstudio.

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