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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Sebastian König has posted some great timelapse modeling and rendering sessions that are available at vimeo for your viewing pleasure. I particularly enjoyed the timelapse for the foxglove challenge. And remember if you are a member of vimeo you can download the original video files.

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Renderdemon has posted up an incredible hair test on Blenderartists. I'd say its Blendernation praiseworthy. Nice work renderdemon. Some good screenshot eyecandy as well.

Apart from the fact that Blender is extremely good software, I also view it as a very strong enabling technology: Blender is able to provide people – who would normally not be able to afford 3D training – the opportunity to start a career in 3D.

Most of Africa falls in the above category. Therefore, when I was recently invited as a Blender Foundation Certified Trainer to present a 7-day introductory Blender workshop in Nigeria, I decided to go despite rumours about the country – and was pleasantly surprised by what I experienced there at ground level…

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I know you are probably waiting for your Big Buck Bunny DVD or the internet release, but don't forget about the Apricot project, which is still running. If you want to take a look at some of the new tools, developed for Apricot, a few test builds are starting to appear!

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From Jeremiah W.

Hello there! I have posted a tutorial on using the Blender Physics system (aka game engine) to animate falling, tossed, and hard to animate movements with objects. You can see the tutorial here

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The second YafRay annual contest has started! If you use Blender 3d and YafRay, this is a great opportunity to put creativity creative energy into an interest project.

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“IMAGINE THE PEUGEOT IN THE WORLDWIDE MEGALOPOLIS OF TOMORROW”

"Create a Concept Car which is designed to evolve within the cities of the future, whilst retaining the key values of the 21stcentury. The projects should bear Peugeot's stylistic codes and must contain the following four aspects included in this design competition: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency.

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Here are two great tutorials about Baking light and normal maps, created by Viktor W., and the tutorials use new features from Blender 2.46!

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