Have you noticed how quickly the global Blender community seems to be growing lately? A few days ago, we received a link to Blender-an, an Indonesian Blender Community site.

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The Blender Conference 2007 Call for Participation is now online; the deadline for submissions is September 1st. More information on blender.org.

The Ukrainian Blender community organizes a 3D modeling competition every other day. It looks like fun, even though I’m not entirely sure what those pages say ;-) Thankfully, they’re offering help for people who don’t speak Russian.

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The French Blender community BlenderClan has gathered a fine collection of Blender-oriented smilies to be used on BB and forums. Here’s a snapshot of their work.

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There is a new Splash Screen contest for Blender 2.45 at the Blenderartists foruns. This new release of Blender won’t have any new features or tools, just some bug fixes.

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Javier Galán (a.k.a. Chronoh) created a very slick demo reel with great timing and cool music. Though it has a Flash feel to it, it was done in Blender.

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If you are trying to learn how to make a natural looking walk cycle, Joeri points us to this site, Biomotion Lab. Biomotion Lab has created a real time walk cycle model where you can adjust the various parameters such as male / female; heavy/light; nervous/relaxed, happy/sad.

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The first six members of the Peach Open Movie project have been chosen and the first workshop has been planned in only seven weeks from now.

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From AndyD:
“It took two months of evenings to make but is the culmination of two years of messing with the character animation tools in Blender – although he’s a pretty simple model and rig so a lot of the tools weren’t used :)”

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Since October 2006, Enrico Valenza (EnV) has been really busy working as a cover illustrator for Mondadori. Using mainly a mix of 2D and 3D (of course, Blender and the GIMP) the results are fantastic!

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