Here's a couple of amusing little animations. They were made earlier this year and feature some mischievous penguins with a serious case of bad luck.

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With the latest edition recently published its time again to get your content into the upcoming BlenderArt Magazine. Issue #20 will focus on the theme 'Make it, Bake it, Fake it!'

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Jean-Sébastien Guillemette from Montage Studios has started giving Blender workshops in Montréal! Check out what he has to say about it:

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Fmurr reports to us that the Lsystem Tutorials are now up to date for 2.46 and 2.47 and 2.48. Using scripts to generate 3d mesh models in Blender .

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The Discovery Channel has an interesting program called Time Warp where they film various actions like a balloon popping, cracking a bullwhip or a whip on flames, non-Newtonian fluid, a boxing blow to the head and stomach and many more, all recorded at 1,000 FPS.

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Article submitted by Tony Mullen. If you're a fan of Japanese anime culture or just want to practice your character animation skills on a top-notch, professional quality rigged model, this news will definitely be of interest to you.

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The latest update of Mac OS X includes fixes for ATI videocards ('Includes fixes for possible graphics distortion issues with certain ATI graphics cards.').

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The BS Exporter for Blender transforms Blender into a complete authoring application for quality Web3D content using the extensions of BS Contact VRML/X3D. It exports to both the XML and VRML Classic encodings of the X3D Standard. Version 1.2.1 was recently released.

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Meant as a crash course in modeling with Blender for newer users, this training DVD takes the viewer through the basics of the interface, navigation, modeling, etc. Then puts all of it to the test with a step-by-step modeling exercise in creating your first character!

Payment information: paypal

Shipping information: everything ships out via USPS Priority Mail, we do our best to ship items the following day.

Montage Studio is a small collaborative CG studio of three artists: Jonathan Williamson, Jean-Sébastian Guillemette and Ben Dansie. We strive to provide the best possible quality in all of the art we produce and continually work to progress our own skills.

Company contact information: contact(at)montagestudio(dot)org

I've been working in 3D since 2002. I love what I do and I try to show that through my commitment to quality. I've worked on a vast number of independent and commercial projects ranging from lowpoly game characters to high-res, animated intros.

Aside from my freelance work, I have also spent a good amount of time teaching. I participated and taught at two Montreal Blender conferences, the New Your Blender conference, and I was part of a small team that taught Blender at a Summer camp for Jr. Highschool students hosted by Red Hat Linux. On my own time I have also produced a number of video tutorials and published three training DVDs.

My two passions are creating art and passing on what I've learned, I do my best to show this through my work and by always trying to give back to the community that has taught me so much.</long>

My hourly rate is negotiable but I prefer to work on a per project basis.

Links

• My contact: jonathan(at)montagestudio(dot)org
• Portfolio

If you don't understand the following description, don't buy this CD, it's in french !

Après le premier volume consacré à Blender, voici la suite consacrée à l'animation.

Faire marcher, courrir, agir un personnage, lui faire faire un peu de basket . Comment contrôler une araignée ? un chien ?

Animer des fluides, contrôler les matériaux souples ou dur, gérer les collissions , faire un parcourrs de domino ! etc etc etc… Festival d'animation en tout genre dans ce CD, qui vous permettra d'apprendre à maitriser les outils d'animations de blender.

Ils sont nombreux, mais pas si durs!

Comme durant la conception de ce CD, la version 2.46 comportant des évolutions est sortie, le CD a subit une évolution avant sa sortie, et du coup il comprend aussi les infos pour la 2.46 et au delà !

Vous pouvez donc l'employer depuis la version 2.40 jusqu'à celle d'aujourd'hui !

Bonne animation à tous !

If you don't understand the following description, don't buy this CD, it's in French!

Blender est gratuit (et donc dans le CD). C'est devenu un logiciel 3D aussi puissant que les ténors du marché, mais il n'a qu'un défaut : il est un peu obscur.

Et bien ce n'est plus le cas grâce à cette formation qui vous permettra de tirer parti de cet énorme logiciel de 3D.

A logiciel énorme, FormaCD énorme. Il a nécessité l'expertise des deux enseignants de la Blender Factory. Et grâce à ce CD, à la fin du premier chapitre, on arrive déjà à s'y retrouver sous blender !!!
Bien entendu le cd contient la version 2.42 ainsi que le moteur de rendu Yafray et Python (ils sont tous gratuit, oui oui !!!).

Dans ce CD, l'on apprend la prise en main de blender, toute la modélisation, le texturing simple et avec nodes, l'éclairage, le rendu et bien d'autres choses.

FormaCD is a French editor, which converts professional 35H training courses into CD-roms. It use special in-house softwares to reduce the training to the essential. The CDs are not typical, video is only used when necessary,

There are MCQs and exercises subject inside you can test by yourself. They are not made like tutorials, but like real trainings, with one goal : make you ready to work ! The price is not expensive at all in order to touch the largest possible audience. The trainings are in French, but a translation service has started editing the FormaCDs in English.

• Company address : FormaCD 16 rue de la Boétie, 33000 Bordeaux, France
• Company contact information : Tel : +33 5 58 07 93 53 mail : formacd@formacd.com site : www.formacd.com
• Payment information : We accept all major credit cards and paypal
• Shipping information : Shipped as soon as we receive the order, downloadable cds are sent in the minute, boxed one takes up to a maximum of 2 weeks to arrive. Shipping is offered.

Tony Mullen's 'Bounce, Tumble and Splash!' is now available in Japanese. Nice!

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Jonathan Williamson from Montage Studio has had a tutorial featured on the CGcookie website. The video tutorial covers a handy usage for the recently added shrink wrap modifier, applying it to the fast and simple creation of clothes for a human model.

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Check out "Infinite Jest," a video by Manuel Quiñones [manuq.]  I asked him a few questions over e-mail about his animation:

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This issue we take a look at using Blenders rigging and constraint tools for more than just animating a character.

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