Welcome to Issue #20, "Make It, Bake It, Fake It"

This issue we take a look at some great techniques for baking normal maps, lighting and some great effects.

So grab your copy today.

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Blender will be represented at CeBit 2009 in the Linux new media booth presenting open software. vissy is asking for help and donations to maintain the stand.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching about modeling a character in a series of 3 live classes, each 3 hours long, all at Blenducation. The first class starts Saturday, February 28, with an entry fee of $20 (U.S.) for the class.

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RBGProd Studios from Switzerland have just finished a detailed animation for a Swiss French company (website) The animation relies a lot on camera footage, featuring an animated robot (named H7) who has been composed into the footage.

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The 2009 CG Community Survey at the CGenie website has some very interesting results regarding Blender and its comparison to other 3D software packages and communities.

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From Ton Roosendaal: For all of the curious people without the time to read all of the commit logs and the long-winded wiki documents, here's a highlight summary of the results so far!

Two weeks ago I attended my first Blenducation class, taught by David Hickson (Dipingo) himself. The class cost 5$ and was on particle hair (and an array of other useful tools, such as texture painting, animated particle hair with softbodies, basic UV mapping, and so forth.)

At the end of the class, Dipingo came up with an idea: "We'll have a particle hair animation contest!" Well, he gave us two weeks to complete our entries and now the contest submissions have been sent in, so it's your turn to vote for the winner!

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A rapid succession of Blender news.

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"The Univerisity of British Columbia Fisheries Centre is proud to host the 2nd Blender workshop in Vancouver. The first one took place in August of 2008 and was well received by the 24 attendents who spent the day learning about computer graphics and networking with other artists from GNWC-MDM and VFS."

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We've previously written about a team of Blender users who specialize in engineering renders and animations. Their latest work has been featured on a company website as the main visuals.

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Using Blender, Ymer who works for the company QUIRI Hydromécanique located in France has completed a product Illustration of a Hydraulic Lift.

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Pigru, a new commercial game by daubIt, designed specifically for the iPod iPhone and iTouch brings you a 3D world where you rotate the screen to solve the picture puzzle.
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If you are considering purchasing a new computer you may want to check out these results on CPU speeds posted by Anandtech for both the INTEl and AMD chipsets. The results are based on Blender 2.48a.

Dropping by BlenderArtists, I noticed some of the featured artwork and decided to check it out.  Here are three works by Marcin Wodzynski (Marcin.)  I also did an interview with him.  Thanks, Marcin!

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Chicago, IL) – As part of the SIGGRAPH 2009 expanded focus on video gaming, this year's Computer Animation Festival will dedicate a segment of the Festival specifically to real-time rendering projects. The top selections will be played and demonstrated live on their respective platform (X-Box 360, PS3, PC, etc.).

The real-time work will have its own jury of industry professionals and experts. Entries will be judged on creativity, innovation, performance and most importantly, the ability to render in real time in front of a live audience during the Computer Animation Festival.

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Dragons Tale Films has released their latest in a series of snail films, two funny animations that were rendered using GreenButton.

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Blender artist Sumit Sakar will be performing at The Dukes in Lancaster (UK) tonight at 7pm, where he'll be creating a brand new piece of 3D digital artwork before your eyes in a part performance, part club lounge setting.

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It's hard to miss the volumetrics work that Farsthary (Raul Fernandez Hernandez) and Broken (Matt Ebb) are working on. I contacted him and asked for an update on his work. Here's his report.

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