After years in development, The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) v. 2.4 is now available for download for your favorite OS, be it Windows, Linux or Mac OS. The popular open source image editing tool has been redesigned with new features and a new look, and it's ready to take on all your texturing and image post-processing needs. Oh, and you can edit photos too! Don't miss out, check out GIMP 2.4 today!

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Would you like to create a game in Blender, using a bit of artificial intelligence? Now you can! Two users from the Blenderartists forums, called p00f and Mmph!, published a series of eight tutorials on how to create a simple AI, using only logic bricks.

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Poland has a large and active Blender community, and now Kamil Kuklo and Jarosław Kolmaga have written the first Polish Blender book. It is now available for ordering.

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The Peach project is already giving Blender a new Tool! It`s the Mesh Deform Modifier. This is a very cool new tool, which allows us to deform a mesh object, using another object. The modifiers works like the Lattice tool, but we can shape the deforming object with almost any kind of shape.

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levelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver. It uses a cube – with an image on each face – as its only interface. It uses a Sony EyeToy camera to capture the image and a screen to present the computed result

'Inside' the cube are six rooms, each of which are logically connected by a network of doors. By tilting the cube you lead a character around the rooms. Some doors lead nowhere and will send you back to the beginning. You have just 120 seconds to find the exit of each cube and move to the next. There are five cubes (levels) in total and just as you imagine, the traps become increasingly difficult to avoid..

Julian relied on Blender to create the interior of his cube and in this article he talks how Blender fits into his workflow.

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It's time to change our header again! I was a bit too busy for the last few weeks to take care of this – my apologies. This week's entry is created by Mike Pan. It immediately made my mouth water and that made the choice easy :) Congratulations, Mike! Your image will be on the site until next week.

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The Bzoo Project is a game creation suite, which provides resources, for anyone interested on develop a multiplayer game with the Blender Game Engine. With the Bzoo templates is very easy to implement network gaming and more, like chats and communication between players.

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Joeri Kassenaar, former employee of Not a Number, will be hosting a full-evening session on Blender at the STRP Art & Technology Festival 2007 on November 24th in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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The first version of the TOSMI trainer's manual is available for download. All the experience acquired along the TOSMI classroom was gathered together for this manual, it will work as a guide for anyone interest on develop courses on open source media.

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Spanish publisher Anaya Multimedia has translated Tony Mullen's 'Introducing Character Animation with Blender' into Spanish.

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The Autorig Script is a very interesting tool, which can automatically add bones and constraints to a newly created autorig-armature. It can easily setup an armature for a character.

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The Blender.org Art Gallery has been updated! You can check out the art work from October already.

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A cool article about the Papervision component, which allows Flash CS3 to work with 3D objects, was released by Computer Arts magazine. It works like a real-time 3D engine component. And they mention Blender at the article, as one of the tools that can produce 3D content to use in Flash.

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Byron Kindig reports on the Blender classes that were recently held in Kingsport, Tenessee. He writes:

We had a great group of people attend. I put up a short page about last Saturday's class at the Renaissance Center. Also the Kingsport Art Guild has approved more classes for January, February, and March. They will be weekly classes on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30. I should have more information about these classes soon.

The winner of the 2007 Suzanne Awards for Best short film, called Night of the Living Dead Pixels was released for download. For this final version, the animation was improved with some better music and small errors fixed.

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In what Media would you like Training Content to be available?

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The 3DCreative magazine has published another great making of, for a scene created with Blender. Now the scene is part of their challenge "Stylized Animal". An artist called Al-Haitham Jassar used Blender to create "The Croc", and he won the second place for this challenge.

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