The Blender Foundation has announced the nominees for the sixth annual Suzanne Awards:

These are the nominees for the sixth annual Suzanne Awards.

The entries will be shown during the Animation Festival on Friday October 24th.

The people attending the Conference will get to vote, and the winners will be announced at the Suzanne Awards Ceremony on Saturday the 25th.

Update: the video’s are now all available for download.

According the the Yo Frankie site, the game will be delayed 1 week due to a serious bug in the game engine.

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What is etch-a-ton? This is a new feature in development for Blender, which will allow an artist to sketch out things like armatures!

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Alessandro Ardolino and Maurizio Cerrato have created Jump’N Ghost, “an arcade videogame developed for the PlayOn amusement machine and ported as demo to all the main computer platforms.”. The game looks cute (check out their gallery) and there’s a free playable demo available for most systems. Unfortunately Ogre3D seems to have issues with ATI videocards under OSX and I can’t play it…

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A handfull of videos from the Melbourne Blender Society meetup have been posted. No images of the audience and atmosphere (I always like that), but some nice excerpts from the presentations.

David Macara wrote:

I’ve just made the recordings from October’s MBS meeting available over at http://www.melbournebs.com/.  Should provide some entertainment for Blenderheads that couldn’t make it.

AnimationMentor has released a report about the current state of the animation Industry and it’s future. If you are considering a career in 2D or 3D animation, this report is well worth reading no matter where you live.

You can get the report at AnimationMentor

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.