Recently, we posted about a Blender head modeling tutorial on cgarena. Well it looks like the author has completed the ear tutorial to accompany it.

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It's SIGGRAPH week (10-15 august)!
We've managed to get BBB screenings + peach team presentations in the theatres of three exciting Hollywood studios:

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What is a Wixel?

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Birds of a Feather events are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees. They must be free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, open to all SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees, and non-commercial in nature (topics specific to one commercial product or company are discouraged).

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No official announcements yet, but seems like Blender 2.47 RC1 is available to download. This is mostly a bug fix release, so don't expect to find new tools.

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"I've been making this animation during the past 7 months in between my studies and work, and I seized the opportunity to use the animation for a short film competition in the Assembly 2008 demo party Assembly.org, held in Helsinki Finland every year.

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JiriH is working on his "proof of concept" on how to make IK spine in Blender.

"This could also work quite well for tentacles, tails or even elephant trunks
:-) As in other cases of "little bit advanced" rigging in Blender good old
lattices do the trick."

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James duGard of Dragons Tale Films series of "virals" videos using Blender to promote  the "Go Elephants" artist series.

"We have 52 elephants, some vandals started kicking them in. I was asked to viral together to promote the elephants."

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Juan Pablo Bouza has just released a new and very detailed character rig using his latest version of BlenRig (BlenRig 2.0). You might remember him as the creator of a past animation, 'The Dance of the Bashful Dwarf'.

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We could use a fresh header image here at BlenderNation! If you have a cool Blender design and you'd like to enjoy a few weeks of fame, read on.

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For the last seven months I've been freelancing for a startup called Shapeways. Our mission is simple: we will make 3D printing (or 'rapid prototyping') accessible for everyone. Just upload your model as STL, Collada or X3D and we can produce it for you in a number of different materials.

Three of us have a history with Blender and used to work for Not a Number, so there's a lot of Blender work going on here in the office. It's a tough job ;-)

We're still in private beta, but I'll be giving away 500 invitations (more about that below).

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Issue 106 of 3D World is themed around free and open-source software. Editor Jim Thacker sent us a few opening spreads and as a bonus, he threw in the full article they published on Big Buck Bunny in issue 103. I love these guys ;-)

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