Here's a *really* nice form of interactive 3D advertising, and it looks like they did the 3D design in Blender.

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As much as this sounds like another open source project, it's not.  Rather, The Emily Project is a very impressive life-like human representation by Image Metrics.

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Green Button has just announced their rendering services for Blender. Using the python script that they provide, you will have a rendering consul  inside Blender which you use to upload your file to their servers. They currently have access to over 2000 processors in New Zealand and an additional 1000+ in Australia and they are currently  working with some very large data center providers in the US to add more thus giving you major studio sized rendering support.

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Oscar Alvarado (of Gothique Studios) has released a teaser trailer of his new animated short, "Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle", animated by Oscar Alvarado and Martha Vaquera.  The video looks quite promising!

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Blender Art Magazine (BAM) are adjusting their release schedule.

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The planetarium of the Weber State University uses Blender to create content for their full-dome digital projector. Rendering for this screen requires a Fisheye camera, for which they have created and released a camera rig.

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The Nurbana NURBS code is being integrated into Blender and the developers could use a hand!

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Clark Thames has recently upgraded his website (www.tutorialsforblender3d.com) to include a new game textures section. The textures are all free to download and most come with normal maps.

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Great news!  Ton posted an update about Blender 2.5 and it's sounding great!  (Thanks to Tim Suess for the head's up!)  Here's a little snippet of the report:

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Christmas Eve is about to begin here, so let's dress up BlenderNation with some great Holiday Seasons headers! I picked 27 designs from this weeks contest and put them on the site – almost everyone's a winner this time! A new one will be shown each hour, so keep reloading to see if you're in it ;-)

Merry Christmas!

The BLENDING LIFE challenge has ended and what a ride! There's been some amazing entries!

The judges have given their scores which will count for fifty percent of the total score. The other fifty percent  will come from you, so they need you to please stop by the contest site and and give your vote!

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Blender and Big Buck Bunny have made the 12th place of the annual CG Retrospective! Their description is touching:

Here is a wonderful example of technical and artistic selflessness that in fact built this industry. Well done guys, thank you.

A heartwarming, well-deserved praise for everyone involved! Check it out here.

Stencil maps can help push your model to the next level by allowing you to layer materials exactly as you see fit. This tutorial by Jonathan Williamson,  covers how to create a stencil map, applying it to your model in Blender and then using it to layer two different materials via the Material Nodes

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Alain Mathez (mcBlyver) has created some companion videos to his rigging tutorials that were featured in the BlenderArt magazine #19.  The videos show off what can be done with these rigging examples (a furniture hinge and a catepiller soft track) in real-time.  Quite impressive.

Update: Alain has posted an updated version of his tutorial here.

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Quick shots of Blender news.

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Artist Dolf Veenvliet [macouno] has released a very nice series of patterns, all created in Blender. These patterns all find their origin in the 11 possible regular, and semiregular polygon tesselations. They are inspired by for instance the work of MC Escher, and the tilings in the Alhambra, and Alcázar in southern Spain.

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Dragons Tale films have published a series of funny clips featuring a bunch of, err…, snails!

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We're getting ready for Christmas and New Year here at BlenderNation and of course, we'll need an appropriate header graphic during that time. Would you like to see your work here for a week? The deadline for submission is Wednesday, december 24th, 6pm (GMT+1). Good luck!

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