This is not directly Blender related, but I found this so d*mn inspiring that I just had to mention it here.

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If you're not planning to party tonight, then grab these zombie motion captures and let us see what you did with them!

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A free Blender workshop in Zagreb is sponsored by the Croatian government.

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French publisher FormaCD have released another Blender Videotutorial DVD with 35 hours of instructions in Flash. It's priced at €25 for the DVD version or €20 for the downloadable version. For more information, visit this page and in the top-left click on the DVD's image (the pages aren't reachable by a URL), or download a demonstration video (Windows version / OSX Version)

If anyone's interested in doing a review, please contact us and I'll try to get a review copy!

Three commercials created by Everton Schneider with the Brazilian studio Casa Na Árvore.

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Blender as a unique selling point of new PC's? Christov Badenhorst wrote:

Just as a matter of fact, I ran into this add on the HP website, and saw a
glimpse of the greatness that is blender.

In some circles it may be seen as an insult, but we know who we are, and what we like. There is honour in being called a BLENDER BOY! So we wear the badge with pride!

If you work for Softimage, contact me and I'll get you a discount!

Macouno is the one man company of Dolf J. Veenvliet B.A. (macouno).

For more information you can visit www.macouno.com.

Fabianne Balvedi writes: Blender Pro is a conference that happens every year in Brasil, bringing together researchers, artists, students, animators, gamers, architects, designers and computer graphics specialists who love Blender and use it as their main tool.
The best Blender works made in Brasil will be presented at this conference through Technical Papers, Posters, Lectures, Video Art Festival and Forum.

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Kleber Paiva and Paulo Fernandes wrote to us about the use of Blender at the Colégio Imperatriz Leopoldina in São Paulo, Brazil. Their story includes a showcase of their pupils' work.

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The first batch of Blender Conference videos has been published. More will be added when postprocessing is complete. A big thanks to Kaveh Bazargan for processing & hosting the vids!

Do you want to know how Autodesk made the decision to buy Softimage? A secret video was recorded during an internal meeting, and it reveals how they made the decision!

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Daniele Carli has taken his own approach to the open source project 'Elephants Dream', by redesigning the soundtrack/sfx and posting it on his site. Its a good demonstration of yet another interesting way to use an open source film like Elephants Dream.

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This year's Animation Festival rocked! Organiser Dolf (Macouno) reports.

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"SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 23, 2008 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Autodesk to acquire substantially all of the assets of Avid’s Softimage business unit for approximately $35 million." (full press release)

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Matray , who created "Meischeid" has created a new animation. Suite Noire, an opening for  French TV show, that unfortunately,  was never aired because the client didn't think it was appropriate.

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Both Blender and the Blender community have been advancing at an incredible pace over the last two years - there is more and more activity and the users are rapidly becoming more professional. Being editors of BlenderNation we're in front-row seat watching an amazing journey!

As a result, more commercial products and services are appearing. In a article which I wrote over 2,5 years ago I was already putting forward my belief that these commercial endeavors are a GOOD thing for Blender (and for Open Source in general) - they give more credibility to the project by providing much-needed documentation, training, support, access to developers and artists.

Still, how do you sell your product or service to a community? So far, getting a post on BlenderNation was the best thing you could hope for - most people will sell really well for a few days but then the effect falls off and you're back in the dark. There had to be a better way.

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