Discovery World, a technology museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is offering a 3 night workshop covering 3D Design on a budget, as a part of our DIY Media series. The class consists of 3 two hour sessions starting on April 7th, which cover will the basics of creating 3D graphics for a variety of mediums. These workshops are being taught by 2005 Suzanne Award winner, Chris Larkee.

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Award winning animator and the director of Elephants Dream, Bassam Kurdali, has begun production on his latest short 5min film entitled 'Tube'. The project has been in pre-production for several months and is now heading into the production phase.

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Ton Roosendaal has some great news about the upcoming Blender conference in October! Check out what he has to say:
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Piichan has created two very interesting scripts: a City Engine and a Dungeon Generator. Demo videos included.

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It's been a while since I last wrote about my work for Shapeways. I don't want to write about it too often, but there's a lot of Blender activity going on here and I thought it would be fun to share the latest news. We've had busy times – I recently clocked in more Blender hours per week than ever before, fixing users' models and preparing prototypes for our Creators (for the new Photoshaper I created more than 50 test models ;-).

Here's a short update on what we've been up to. Also, I interviewed Blender user Fabian Fricke about his work and his impression of Shapeways.

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Guess what? Jonathan Williamson has done it again! This time he brings us a 6 part series on head modeling, completely free to watch online. Check it out here!

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Hongkiat.com recently posted a list of 60 websites that are hosting free 3D models. Go ahead and tap into this excellent resource!

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After the exceptional results from the CGenie Survey we reported on in February, CGenie has interviewed Ton Rosendaal about his views on the survey and the future of Blender.

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Daniel Salazar (ZanQdo) will be teaching a Blenducation class on the basic rigging of a human, including: building the armature, parenting, IK, revers footlock, action constraint, and skinning.

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You may recall reading about the project Kajimba which is still in production at ProMotion Studios. Meanwhile, they are also working on developing a children's show entitled "Jellibots.

""Here at ProMotion Studios we've developed a solid Blender pipeline for our primary 3d tool set. In order to test our pipeline in series format, we've put together a pilot for
a series we're developing called the Jellibots."

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The results of Campbell's YoFrankie level design contest are now online. The first, second and third place entries are certainly very nice and worthy of their prizes.

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So what happens when you combine a talented musician / composer with a talented 3D artist? I found myself playing this over and over again, several times!

Jan Morgenstern asked Andy Goralczyk to create a trailer for his  music production business in Blender.

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Pictures from the Vancouver user meeting!

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The Blender game Boro-Toro, winner of the Dare to be Digital contest, now also won the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) 'Ones to Watch' award. Congratulations to the entire team! You'll find more information, trailer, screenshots and downloads on their website.

Two new Blender events. If you went there, please send us some pics!

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 BlenderPocket is a Blender port dedicated for mobile devices (Phones, PDA, …) having a touch screen, small amount of memory (RAM), a low speed processor (with no floating point unit) and no graphic unit (no hardware acceleration). BlenderPocket is working today on all mobile devices with Windows Mobile 2003 or newer but it should be "easy" to make it work on any other devices. It just got upgraded from 2.42 to 2.48a!

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It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 21 of Blenderart Magazine.

The theme for this issue is ‘Look What I Can DO!!!'.

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This is what I've gathered so far, it gives a good picture of what we did, and probably sufficient topics for further reviews and design work
:) Ton

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