Michael Krupa writes to us about three commercials made with Blender. I’ve finally gathered some materials on youtube and here they are:

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Gokhan wrote:

I am and ELT student and a Blender user nearly for 3 years. I created this web site to help make Turkish Blender users aware of Blender3d world, and I translate www.BlenderNation.com news daily, and also I am translating the BlenderArt Magazine as much as I can, besides my lessons.

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Just a little over two years after the release of Elephants Dream, the Blender Institute have today released their second phenomenal accomplishment: Big Buck Bunny. Aimed at further developing Blender by providing it with great new animation tools and high-end fur rendering (both available in the recently released Blender 2.46), it will undoubtably put both Blender and Open Source in general on the radar of more 3D hobbyists and professionals around the world.

You will find in-depth information about the project on their new website www.bigbuckbunny.org, and more importantly, you can download both the full version of the movie in HD quality and all the production files right now!

To everyone involved: respect!

Something’s afoot on peach.blender.org, and we all know what :-)

We reported in out previous article about ATI Slowdowns Now MattD tells us there is a new catalyst driver has been released which seems to put object selection in blender in an usable state again. He wrote a thread about it at BlenderArtists.org

Theres a wealth of information in video format put out by PapaSmurf. You can check them out at Vimeo.

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One of the coolest scripts that came along with Blender 2.46, is the Trees From Curves. This script was developed for the Peach Project, to create trees and brushes. If you want to know the basics of how this script works, Ideasman42 has produced a video tutorial, showing the basics to create a tree model.

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From the Blender Foundation:

Big Buck Bunny Internet release Friday 30th May, around noon! [UTC/GMT +2 hours]

The official release of the BBB movie files will be friday at noon. Will be big fun!

If you would like the HD version and also support the Blender Foundation, go to the E-Shop to purchase the complete BBB kit.

A very good set of video tutorials about Blender has been published by Jason Welsh, an experienced producer of training videos for cg.

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I was in need of a snow material for a current project when I remembered the Blender Materials site. I hadn’t been there in quite a while and I found exactly what I needed for this project. It saved me a lot of time. There’s quite an impressive collection of FREE materials. I also noticed on thier home page that they have celebrated their first anniversary this month. So Congratulations and hats off to you all at Blender Materials for an outstanding job and collection.

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