The Blender conference videos are now available on Blender.org.

*Update 11/2/07 Conference videos are available as .torrents now. Please seed!*

*Update 11/3/07 Conference videos available at Google. See Blenderartists thread here.*

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Dualbo, Inc. is preparing to launch a weekly internet series, Monster Management. All done in Blender, of course. From the sneak peek, I’d say that it’s in the same genre as ‘The Office’. I totally dig that kind of humour, so I’m really looking forward to this ;-)

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Need some help with Blender? Why not give the BlenderSkype support team a call!

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There are so many Blender workshops and presentations being announced that we have to start bundling them. Here’s a list of events for the next two months:

• Barcelona, November 5-9
• Kingsport Tennessee, November 9,10
• Vienna, Austria, November 24
• Porto, Portugal, December 8/9 and 15/16

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Yuzupei reports on BlenderArtists about the presentation that he and Huanghai gave at the Beijing Software Freedom Day 2007. Check out their collection of pictures and the video report of the event – Blender @ 2:20. Xie xie ni, guys!

Animator Daniel Martinez Lara has moved on from rigging a leg in Blender to rigging a complete character, and he’s offering the first results of his work for download.

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After all the tranquility of the last two headers I figured we could use a little more action this week. The one I selected is by Jean Sébastien Guillemette [X-Warrior]. It’s an oldie, but it’s also one of my all-time Blender art favorites, so I’m happy to feature it here ;-) Congratulations, Jean Sébastien! Your image will be on the site until next week.

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Polish Blender user Anna Celarek submitted a Blender animation to CGSociety’s ‘Strange Behavior’ contest. It has a very distinct visual style and a funny story-line. On top of that, this is her FIRST project in Blender!

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Riccardo Covino (jazzroy) and Davide Vercelli (UncleZeiv), two active members of the Italian Blender community, will be hosting a 2 hour presentation on Blender in Florence, Italy, on Sunday October 28th. The meeting, titled “Animation and Freedom: Computer Graphics, 3D, Special Effects and Free Software”, is part of the Quifree.it track on free software within the Creativity Festival.

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Exciting news! Sun Microsystems has agreed to donate processing power to render the Blender Foundation’s new open-movie venture, Peach! The corporation has granted the project free hours of computing time on their supercomputing network network.com. This will enable far faster rendering and allow the team to build more-complex scenes than they might have otherwise! See more on the official Peach blog.

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