In recent months, 3D model repositories such as TurboSquid have been served with DMCA takedown requests for 3D models of a variety of commercial and military vehicles based on trademark infringement for the vehicle names. This came to a head near the end of March when Lockheed Martin issued a takedown order for models of a B-24 bomber modeled by John MacNeill. TurboSquid complied, but now the Electronic Freedom Foundation has stepped up in MacNeill's defense, issuing an open letter to Lockheed's licensing agency in an effort to get his models back up.

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Do you know how to use all the new tools of the upcoming Blender 2.46? No? Would you like to learn how to use some of them with a set of video tutorials? Now you can!

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"Two treasure-hunting teens sneak into an abandoned military base looking for a rumored gold cache. Once inside, they accidentally activate a top secret relic of the Cold War – a huge mobile weapons system bent on protecting the base from all intruders. Cut off from every exit, the pair must fight to survive."

Hangar No. 5 is an action-packed short film featuring Talan Torriero from Laguna Beach and Charity Shea from The Best Years. Produced by Northwestern University undergraduate students, Hangar No. 5 was shot during October 2007 around the Chicagoland area. The film will premier in June 2008.

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This script allows the user to quickly create various types of screw fasteners.

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Satoshi Yamasaki (yamyam) is the operator of the Japanese blender.jp community site. His Blender book for beginners was published last month.

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Martin White, whom we know from the animation 'The Goat, The Boy and The Sun', submitted an entry to the aniboom.com Radiohead contest.

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So it's time for another weekly video roundup. Sit back and enjoy!

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The second edition of the German Blender magazine 'Blenderzin' has been published.

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by Roland Hess

While we all know that Blender doesn't need to prove itself anymore, it's nice to see things like this. It appears the Blender is being used by the evaluation department at PC World Australia for benchmarking and comparing new processors.

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A Blender artist called Alex Fraser has published on his web site a great tutorial on how to setup the eyes of a character to track a target.

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The projects that will participate on the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been announced, and again Blender was awarded with 6 projects!

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"It’s finally here. GameBlender – ARToolKit demo contains camera tracking in GameBlender’s virtual scene, as it is shown in Little man video. To get it working, you need to install Texture plug-in and PyARToolKit module. (I’ve sorted out some bugs in Texture plug-in, so I suggest to download actual version)."

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Last night's interview in the Dutch TV show 'De Wereld Draait Doort' with Ton and Sacha is now online!

Update: Dutch transcript is ready. If you want, you can log in and help to translate now. Thanks!!
Update 2: English translation is ready. Thanks for all the help!

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Tonight at 7:30pm on NL3, Ton and Sacha will be interviewed in the popular Dutch TV program 'De wereld draait door'. I'll upload the interview to dotSUB tomorrow so we can have it properly subtitled for all non-Dutch speakers.

Oh, and I see that 'The Big Lebowski' will be on at 8.30pm – it's gonna be a great TV night :)

Het Parool, one of the larger Dutch newspapers wrote last Saturday: "Big Buck shakes up the movie world". The full article (2 pages!) is available online (scan on the Peach site, or Parool website).

Update: translated version, thanks to kimme and rpgsimmaster

Can you code 24 hours non-stop? Hackontest is a new Google-sponsored 24-hour programming competition between different open source projects. Its goals are to enhance Free Software projects according to user needs and to make visible how enthusiastically open source software is being developed.

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Andy and Sacha will be talking at CGOverdrive in Singapore, Asia's biggest
Computer Graphics conference.

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Recently reported, the Powua renderfarm is offering rendering time on their servers as prizes for their animation contest.

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