Do you want to learn how to build a house in Blender? A Blender artist called Vaclav Chaloupka, was kind enough to create an incredible set of three video tutorials, showing the detailed process of modeling a complete house in Blender.

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(Chicago, IL) - ACM SIGGRAPH announced the selection of Irish Artist and Director Catherine Owens, best known for her staging and film work with the Irish rock band U2, as a featured speaker for SIGGRAPH 2008 to be held in Los Angeles this August. Owens will present "Giving Technology Emotion: From the Artist's Mind to 'U2 3D'," which details her co-directing and producing experiences during production of the film "U2 3D", the first digital 3D, multi-camera, real-time production.

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Matthew Kean writes:
IBL AAO! Thats right, BLender Artists frequenter and programming guru, Broken (Matt Ebb) has brough IBL to the masses.

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Edwin Glaser Writes:

Well…. we all are waiting for Big Buck Bunny. And announcing another open source movie is like the milkman ringing when you expect Santa Claus.

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We just shipped about 1700 dvds to our loyal investors in the Blender community. People in Europe can expect it in their mailboxes this week, Dutchies this Friday, but outside of EU probably next week.

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From Markus Kothe

The other day a was searching the internet for some skydomes to use for easy and nice reflections and AO light. When I didn't found any I liked I said to myself…

"Why don't I make some myself? Blender should be capable of that"

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From Jeremiah W.

Hello all fellow Blender heads! Recently (as in the past month) I created a commercial for the NewEgg commercial contest. You can see the commercial here, I am now a finalist in the contest, and hopefully will be one of the 20 people who will walk away with a prize from NewEgg.

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Yes! Blender 2.46 has been released, and you can download it from this link.

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After a long stint of inactivity, finally a new movie has been added to the blender.org movies gallery. The added movie is Bounce to space by Pablo vazquez (VenomGFX).

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Levon Hudson will be presenting Blender at the next Siggraph/DLF meeting of the Adelaide Chapter. The theme of this meeting is Open source software, with the mainfocus on Blender.
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Yorik sent us a tutorial recently on the process he went through creating trees, using nGPlant, for eventual rendering in Blender. And he even has a number of tree models ready and available for download in the .blend file format for use in Blender. Find them here.

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(Chicago, IL) - ACM SIGGRAPH announced today the award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival to be held in Los Angeles this summer. Nominees were chosen from more than 900 submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike. An esteemed panel of jury members reviewed each submission to compile some of the greatest works submitted this year.

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James Chronister wrote:

I will be running 3 classes again next month.

There will be some introductory Blender 3D design classes offered through the Central Dauphin School district located in suburban Harrisburg, PA again this summer. The CD Summer “Academy” is designed for teachers within the district to fulfill in-service requirements, but administration has graciously allowed me to open these classes to individuals outside the district.

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Have you ever manage to simulate human skin, only with Blender materials? An artist from the Blenderartists forums, called Pixelvore, has made some incredible experiments with SSS and Nodes to simulate human skin, and the results are amazing!

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For those who have been hoping for a conference here in the USA, I am excited to announce that the Kingsport Art Guild will be hosting a 2nd day Blender Conference here in scenic Kingsport, Tennessee on August 2, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 3rd, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, 2008. This conference will include mini work shops and tutorials on various intermediate and advanced techniques used in Blender. Much of the focus will be on some of the newer features of version 2.46.

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With Bart on his much needed sabbatical, I will be stepping in to help keep BlenderNation running. However, I do not have the time to write articles everyday and would like your assistance. It was Bart's goal to give you at least two or more articles per day, but the reality is that this is an unpaid job, so while there are several Writers "on staff", family and job commitments come first and the contribution of articles is therefor sporadic, thus putting pressure on Bart.

So where do you the reader come in to help out?

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Recent events in my life (a baby, and starting my own company) and on this site have made me decide it's time to put some distance between myself and the Blender community. I find it too hard to motivate myself for the huge amount of time I need to put in this project every day. So, I'm stepping down for at least a month, maybe longer, maybe permanently. The site is in the more than capable hands of our team of editors now!

All the best,

Bart

Robert Schober, whom we know from 'Dear Valentine' and 'Machines', has produced a new video for Mastodon.

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