An impressive demo reel posted by Jorge Rausch, one of the Plumiferos animators.

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"Own-it in cooperation with Open Rights Group have invited a panel of independent and corporate video games developers, joined by a specialist lawyer, who will discuss alternative business models based on open source technology and whether or not they could influence the future of the games industry."

More information on this free event and registration here. At the moment of writing there are still 31 seats available.

While looking for an answer related to the game engine in Blender (I am working on a little platformer game where you control a toadstool mushroom,) I noticed a thumbnail on BlenderArtists to this amazing real-time model.

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If you make an animated series about a bar you'll have to animate beer, I guess. The Kajimba team just released a beer rig (that's a first!), including a nice demo movie. Cheers!

They write:

We just finished a beer rig, plus a few cold ones for ourselves. Made it simple for the sake of the simple animators we have here. The shading of the beer itself is up for debate, seeing as half the studio like theirs blonde, and the other half dark.

Remember the Blender Conference in Kingsport last August? It took the organization a massive amount of work, but they have now published 11 videos of the sessions – over 7 hours of material in total!

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Hooray! Two more Blender trainings have been announced.

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Ton just announced that the Apricot DVD Master is ready and should go to the printer today:

Just a short note! DVD is done, we’re still doing some tests, and we need Campbell for final blessings, but tomorrow it will be ready to go to the DVD reproduction factory!

Printing takes 2 weeks, shipping will happen during weekend of 1-2 november, customers will then get the copy within 1 (europe) or 2 (rest of world) weeks. Exciting!

Its release time for version 2.48! This is a game engine heavy edition, with a large amount of BGE updates and new tools. There's also plenty of non-game related updates and tools to keep everyone happy.

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Dwayne Ferguson (aka Hunter) has started working on a animation following his own take on the original horror story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' written by Edgar Allen Poe and first published in 1843.

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last minute developers stress:

Silvio A C Gollega Jr  made a digital image using Blender for the cover of a magazine titled "Your Home".

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The Layer Manager Script by FourMadMan makes Blender's own layer management bite dust. It offers features like layer naming, locking and selection of objects by their type.

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Bassam Kurdali posted an update for his famous Mancandy rig. It'll ensure 2.48 compatibility, fixes some issues and adds a bunch of new features. Check out the announcement.

A brand new version of YafRay was released last week! After a long time, the most expected YafRay 0.1.0 is available to download. This is a complete rewrite of the renderer.

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"Every project needs an environment to exist in, some projects are all about the surroundings themselves. But it is often an area that gets short changed or overlooked. So this issue we take a look at various ways to create environments and backgrounds for your projects. We have collected a nice variety for your enjoyment."

So grab your copy today.

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Here's yet another amazing piece of work, made by Martinsh, using Blenders new real-time tools and abilities. Its impressively comparable to Endi's Boom BGE masterpiece which was covered on Blendernation a while back.

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Two new Blender trainings have been announced.

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BlenderNewbies author Kernon Dillon has published a compilation DVD of his excellent videotutorials. They offer high-resolution video and better sound quality than the on-line versions. It's priced at $35 – $33.25 if you order before Monday.

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