Jordan Harris (Leonardo812 on BA) has completed a short film, using Blender for all the 3D work. Most of the film is done using the stop motion technique with Lego characters and environments. This has been combined with 3D animation to make a very cool film.

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A first sneak peek of last week's 'Blender Sprint' is in! Nathan Letwory reports.

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The Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore is hosting a Blender course as part of their Professional Development Programme.

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Animation Mentor has written an article called "Animation as an Art Form," for 3D Creative Magazine. The article looks at where animation is heading and concepts in animation art.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching his second live 3-hour class (in the series of 3 classes,) continuing on the character model he blocked out in the first lesson. Once again the live class will be held at Blenducation. The class starts Saturday, March 7, with an entry fee of $20 (USD) for the class.

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The Italian website Blender-Tutorial.com has organised a Blender tutorial writing contest. Prizes are a Western Digital 500GB Harddisk, a Canon A470 digital camera and a Microsoft Media Desktop keyboard+mouse. The deadline is 5 April 2009.

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Two cool new magazine releases for Russian and Italian Blenderheads. Enjoy!

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Hi blenderheads!

I am very happy to present a series of open source events in the media art lab "MedienKunstLabor" in Graz, Austria.

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Blender is represented at the CeBIT 2009 this year and we just received a photograph of our team there. CeBIT is open until Sunday March 8th, so if you live in the area go say 'hi' :) Good job guys!

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The New York City Blender User's Group is holding a meeting at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, in Rogers Hall room 474 Saturday March 7th at 2 pm.

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"Classical Girl" is an excellent piece of CG artwork made by Wang Shiyong, and he has written up a making-of article on the creation process of this fine work.

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Claas wrote to tell us about a series of lectures he's recorded for his students:  "I started to video record my lectures for my students to address those with a different learning requirement style."

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Project Aftershock is an Indie multiplayer racing game developed by a small team of gamers. Liquid Rock Games is the small company creating the game, lead by Yap Chun Fei and Pang Lih-Hern.

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