Linux Outlaws did a recent Podcast interview with Campbell Barton about Apricot and Yo Frankie. The interview with Campbell starts at 35:50.

SIGGRAPH 2009 invites you to participate as a contributor or volunteer at the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 3 – 7 August 2009 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in festive New Orleans, Louisiana. The deadline for General Submission is Wednesday, 18 February. All the submission deadlines are strictly enforced, so plan ahead!

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Guess what?  Another great artist is using Blender in his workflow!  His name is Heiko Klug (Jesar,) and PSDTUTS recently did an interview with him.  Heiko Klug is simply inspirational!

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Sebastian König who created the Wasp timelapse last November, as promised has released his new project of a fly. This time along with his modeling timelapse video he has included the first part of a tutorial.

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There are lots of tutorials, videos and books available to learn Blender, but the easiest way of learning is still to see someone else use it. For most people this is easier said than done of course. Blenducation aims to solve this by offering live Blender classes on the web – you can look over the shoulder of well-known Blender community members and interact with them. Blenducation offers a combination of free and paid classes.

David Millet reports.

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Kernon Dillon, author of BlenderNewbies.com and publisher of the Blender Newbies Video Tutorial DVD, has published a 41 minute videotutorial on creating layered 2D snowflakes.

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Its not just any award, Hangar No.5 has been nominated for one of the awards in the 7th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards, in the 'Outstanding Effects in a Student Project' category.

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The fifth edition of the Russian magazine Blender-Empire is out!

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Robert Schober wrote to tell us about a recent project he was involved in for a music video for Metallica.

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Bassam Kaurdali creator of the ManCandy model,  Rig and DVD Rigging tutorial created a visual for new type of Wind Turbine which is featured on MIT's Technology Review site.

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Well Tony Mullen's at it again with another book and I can't wait to see the results and add this to my collection.

Mastering Blender is part of Sybex's "Mastering" series, and as such takes an in-depth, fairly advanced look at its subject. Mastering Blender is geared to intermediate and advanced Blender users who really want to get the most out of Blender.

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Blender, the free alternative for professional-quality 3D animation is a complex program to learn, but once users become familiar with its power, they begin to seek more from it.  This book is the first of its kind to explore the more advanced features of Blender so that you can get the most out of the software. You’ll take your Blender skills to a whole new level with the featured in-depth coverage of intricate uses for Blender’s modeling, texturing, animation, and visual effects tools in a professional environment.

Vitorbalbio has posted a few of his Blender Game Engine works over at Blenderartists.org. The quality of the work is amazing, using a lot of the newer features and tools of the game engine. There's some nice pictures to look at, and the main piece, entitled 'Ruinas', can be downloaded as a .exe to view and explore for yourself in realtime.

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UPDATE 01-19-09   Chris just sent me a new link for the site

http://matrep.parastudios.de/

A number of readers have been asking about the Blender Materials site being down. Christian aka paratron tells me that his ISP pulled the rug from under him; they deleted his site due to excessive use but did not warn him about the pending disruption, telling him instead after the fact. He's in the process of changing it over to another sever

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The schedule for the GDC 2009 (The Game Developers Conference) includes a session about using the Blender Game Engine for Rapid Prototyping.

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'Art of Community' is a new book currently being written by Jono Bacon. Its a book detailing the many areas of  communities which follow 'Every software project, online site, or company' and how to build a strong community. The book is relevant to Blender as Ton Roosendaal has recently contributed some interview content.

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You may recall an article last November about Blender being used for the Intel Core I7 rollout.

Now there is some benchmarking by Intel using Blender 2.47

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Phil McCoy of Project London has recently uploaded a new video clip featuring special effects shots from the Project London film, showing the live action footage and 3D animation composited together!

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