It's Sunday night, the baby is asleep and I'm the only one awake in the house. Life is good and I found myself enjoying this relaxing music video that Andrej Cimerman created (with Blender, of course) for a band called Trilas. Even though I'm not sure the video really matches the music, I enjoyed the 50's style animation and the music.

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The gallery at blender.org has been updated for November. There are lot of great entries this month, particularly character designs. Go check it out and decide which ones you like best!

Development continues on Blender this latest new feature includes improved baking options.

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Last night we started receiving reports of spam links appearing under each page on BlenderNation. Investigation showed that a number of files had been compromised, probably because of our WordPress installation being out of date. As I was in bad need of some sleep, my ISP and I decided to shut down the site for the night, and fix things in the morning.

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We recently spotted a commercial on YouTube for ROC, an international producer of skin-care products. The commercial was created in Blender by Gecko Animation Limited and was aired on UK television. We contacted Jonathan Lax to learn about his studio and about how Blender fits into his workflow.

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The Apricot Project now has a blog, just like the Peach project. There we can find news about the project development. Besides the new Blog, the Apricot DVD can already be pre-ordered from the Blender e-shop!

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The cmiVFX in a partnership with the CG Channel, has released a free online tutorial, about composition techniques and render passes with Blender! This is a video tutorial, showing the process of composition with the node editor.

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Tripeace is my favorite Blender animation so far this year. The team that created it has now published a short 'Making of', showing some of the steps they took to achieve the trippy visuals. As a bonus, you can download the .blends of  two scenes from the animation.

The Kingsport Art Guild (remember their workshops?) has organised Kingsport's First International Art Show which features a number of Blender artworks. Byron Kindig reports on the opening reception.

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Would you like to learn how to use Blendigo or RibMosaic? To integrate Blender with Indigo or 3delight? If you speak Spanish, now you can! A Blender artist called afacelis, from the Niel Blender forums, has created a set of video tutorials, showing how to use both scripts.

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The Spline Doctors website has a a Podcast interview with wit Ed Catmull thats definitely worth hearing. To me, he's the father of CG Animation. Here are some of the things he has given us:

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Ton Roosendaal has announced the selection of the Apricot Open Game Team:

We proudly present to you a great international team of artists and developers who will come to Amsterdam february 2008 to make the Open Game project happen!

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Sandra Gilbert writes: Welcome to Issue #13, “Fantasy”. We have packed our 2nd Anniversary issue full of amazing articles and tutorials guaranteed to jump start your own fantasy project. Not only do we take an inside look into the minds of some very talented artists, we also showcase two new games created in blender and a python script sure to inspire a fantasy or two.

So grab your copy today.

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SabOUm has published a collection of 92 free textures and 6 skyboxes, all published under a Copyleft/Free Art license.