Alexander Fox created this 30-second Public Service Announcement  in Blender for an international non-profit organization.
"I tried to make it look more like a commercial for a video game than a non-profit, and I feel that it was successful in that regard. This was my first real Blender project, so I tried to keep it simple but effective. Enjoy!"

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Fabien Weibel has published his animation 'Freddy's World'. A stunning production which I totally enjoyed. Cool job!

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Andy Goralczyk has posted an interesting new video on his blog. The video is a timelapse of his progress entering into the Blending life contest currently being held over on Blenderartists.org, something worth checking out.

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Now that most/all of the Yo Frankie DVDs have arrived around the world, the whole project has been put online for free download.

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Reynante M. Martinez reports in on the Blender meeting in the Phillipines. It looks live everybody had a great time, except for the girl in picture #9 ;-)

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William Reynish, character animator of Big Buck Bunny, worked the past few months on a wonderful training DVD on character animation techniques.
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Two somewhat related news items today: Sun uses Big Buck Bunny material to demonstrate their JavaFX Media Component For Streaming Video and Sony promotes its blu-ray authoring 'on-Q Create' software for Java with Elephants Dream footage. Sun properly credits BBB, while Sony violates the Creative Commons license by not crediting (although I can't be 100% sure – after trying to start java for 1 minute, my browser crashed. Anyone interested in my opinion on Java? ;-)

Recently a seminar was held in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.  Go ahead and read the report from Gumanoed!

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With the new GLSL features in the Blender Game Engine we're starting to see some handy little tutorials popping up. Heres one about normal mapping, written by Lancer on Blenderartists.org

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Riste Sekuloski has released his Einstein Dwarf rig and model, free for download.

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Article submitted by Teachers Kleber and Paulo. To carry on with the idea of using Blender in the educational area, we have given the first and important step applying activities for students between the 2nd and 4th grades (Elementary School).

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It's been quite some time since the last article that I wrote here. I have a good reason, though! Recently, I completed writing Blender For Dummies, and it's currently available for a discounted pre-order on Amazon.

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Andrzej Ambroż [Jendrzych] has been working on a new icon set for Blender for two years. It has now been accepted for Blender 2.5!

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A new video about Maya to Blender connection by Daniel Martinez Lara,  Pepeland shows how you can import your animation from Maya to Blender, apply AniSculpt, and then  export the results back to Maya.

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Panzi wrote two texture nodes that were recently committed to the Blender svn repository. He demonstrates their use by creating procedural terrains. Nifty stuff.

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The book is between a Blender-guide and a tutorials book. It aims at beginners, but as it is fully compliant to Blender 2.46, all the latest and hot topics of Blender are reviewed and explained, including the nodes, the softbodies, the fluid simulation etc. Obviously, the book is divided into chapters, reviewing almost everything (except the Game Engine and Python Scripting): the installations (for Win, Linux and Mac Os X) of Blender/Python/Yafray, the GUI and first steps in Blender, a first beginner's project, a whole chapter on modeling, another one on lighting (including radiosity), a full length one on shading (materials, textures, material nodes editor), another on the basis of animation (animation along curves, working with IPO, Action Editor, particles animated/static, animating with Modifiers…), another one on advanced animations (softbodies, rigid bodies, fluid sim, animating with skeletons, NLA editor…), another one on rendering (Render layers, Composite node editor…). In the appendices,you can read an explanation of the bundled python scripts, a list of material indice, and much more.

Jonathan Williamson has published a tutorial on Blender's retopo tool on Blender.

From the Blender wiki: "Retopo (remake topology) is a tool for remaking the topology of a mesh. It's the opposite of the sculpting tools: instead of reshaping the model but leaving the topology the same, it reforms the topology, but maintains the same shape as the original model. You will not change the geometry of the original mesh in any way, you will be creating a new mesh that is projected upon an existing mesh."

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I have worked for some advertising companies as freelancer with Blender, which i have been using for some years now. So far I have made some animations (lenghts of 10 – 30 seconds) and still images to be used in advertisement campaigns in various medias (from Internet to Broadcast). I also have done numerous tiny special jobs for small, film student based films. Things like logos and Visual FX. I am looking for short term/small projects for now (preferably in Finland).

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• Contacts via: samuli.jomppanen@gmail.com
• Website and portfolio