Here's an impressive list of 73(!) websites that offer free texture resources. More will be added in the future.

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Elye wrote:

Hi, I've recently completed a new music video for some local rappers I know. I did all the animation in Blender, even though it's 2D (or 2.5D). Thought you might like to check it out!

I certainly do :) Very nice and professional work, thanks for sharing!

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Ivan Hoffmann (digitalh) has made a case study on a great compositing technique for turning a day shot into a night shot - and he had to do the compositing work in a short amount of time.  For all you filmmakers out there, here's your chance to learn more about this very useful "Day to Night" technique!

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The Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC) at the University of Westminster, London are test-driving their 250-CPU Grid. It's built around Blender and they're inviting YOU to render your work there.

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Sebastian König has posted a very nice time-lapse video in which he models, a wasp. It touches many techniques including subsurfaces, IK and even a spot of grease pencil sketching.

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Francisco Ortiz sent in the following report: Brazilian institution SESC SP hosts a serie of events about Game Creation and Do It Yourself "D.I.Y".

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An artist from Brazil called Leonardo Davi published on his blog, a great collection of tutorials about sculpting with Blender. The tutorial was meant to be his final project, for a degree in visual arts.

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The news is spreading! Today, we received a message from Russia where Maksim Zinchenko translates all our news into Russian. Great job, Maksim!

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Here is a report on Google Summer of Code Summit from Kent Mein.  Go ahead and read what he has to say

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Tony Mullen has posted a set of pictures from his latest workshop in Tokyo.

Here are two upcoming workshops at the end of this week and next week in Spain and Austria.

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The Dark Scarab site has many tutorials for blender users, cover car modeling, cloth, etc.

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The Chinese blog Crossmovie diligently translated our articles into Chinese. Hello unknown author - now YOU're on BlenderNation too! :) Would you care to introduce yourself to the community?

See3D recently completed work on a visualization of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

It is due to be aired on BBC Wales for their premier episode of 'Hidden Histories', a series documenting great engineering achievements of the Industrial Revolution.

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Randall Rickert (professional 3D animator, used to work for Not a Number) showcased Blender at the new Intel Core i7 launch event.

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Here's a short animation by Dan Finlayson inspired by the song 'Goodnight Moon' by Shivaree, a large portion of it was made using Blender and some rather intriguing techniques.

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For those of you who are interested in learning to draw by hand, this book may be a big help: its concept is that all people can learn to draw what they see by using techniques to trick the right side of the brain to take over and block out the left side. This right side is the artistic side the left side the more analytical.

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Covering every aspect of the short-film production pipeline, this book demonstrates each concept and technique through a combination of general theories, examples, exercises, case studies, and interviews with short-film directors and industry specialists. Full of amazing imagery and one-of-a-kind content (including a robust DVD filled with dozens of award-winning short films) it is a must-read book for current and future animated filmmakers.

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