Ribmosaic is another RenderMan exporter for Blender, but this time with a different approach. Mosaic was conceived to integrate all Blender structure with the RenderMan attributes.

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Iranian Blender developer Hamed Zaghaghi has been working on some rather cool new functionality for the Blender game engine. Not only did he add 2D image filtering capabilities (like motion blur), he also worked on a patch to speed up the OpenGL display of the game engine.

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The training, provided by LearnITPro, will be an intensive four-day training course specifically designed for individuals who want a compact and informative introduction to 3d Graphics and Animation.

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Here is another great model repository, now with a lot of car models. The DMI car 3d models are all available freely for download, in the LWO file format. That is fully compatible with Blender!

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The Peach team have posted a bunch of videos on their blog: one of the ‘weekly meeting’ that they have every Friday and four of Sacha, Enrico, William and Nathan showing some of their work. All files are available from YouTube/Google Video or as .ogg files (use VLC to play). Great stuff, I really appreciate that this project is so much more open about their creation process than Elephants Dream!

A Blender artist called Antonio Gessi, has published a very cool guide about the Fluid Simulator options. To make this guide even more interesting, all parameters are illustrated with animations. For instance, when he explains how the Domain option works, there is an animation showing how the fluid will behave at different resolutions.

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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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