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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Ollie Johnston died of natural causes on Monday April 14, 2008 in Sequim, Washington.

“Ollie was part of an amazing generation of artists, one of the real pioneers of our art, one of the major participants in the blossoming of animation into the art form we know today,” said Roy E. Disney.

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The May edition of 3D World magazine contains two four-page Blender related articles.

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