From blender.org: "After tests with English subtitles – which didn't work at all – we decided to produce [the Venom's Lab DVD] with 2 audio tracks, Spanish and English.". That is a most excellent decision guys! It will make the DVD much, much, much more useful for everybody. PLUS we get to hear Venom's cool English/Spanish accent as a bonus :)

(PS: if you haven't seen it yet, check out the cool Venom's Lab trailer)

TOSMI 2009 is from August 10, 2009 – August 30 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's a yearly training event with a heavy emphasis on Blender. Signup closes on June 20th.

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Looking for a summer internship in computer grapics? Bassam Kurdali (member of the Elephants Dream team) and Bit Films are looking for students in the Western Massachusetts area this summer.

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Testing of the BlenderNation Links system is going well and we'll be ready to go live in just a few more days. If you want YOUR tutorials/models/materials/… to be there when we launch, send a message to inbox(at)blendernation.com and include your BlenderNation login name (BN Links is a 'self-service' system so you'll have to take care of adding your own links). Thanks!

It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 22 of Blenderart Magazine.

The theme for this issue is "Things that go bump in the Night".

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Blender 2.49 RC3 has just been released. Like last time there are no release notes, so we can't tell you what's been fixed, which can't be very motivating for testers and bug reporters… Anyway – enjoy!

CGCookie.com has published yet another great videotutorial by Jonathan Williamson – the guy is a tutorial MACHINE!

Continue Reading 'Video tutorial: Create a simple Steampunk(ish) Telescope' »

Like Indigo Renderer, Kerkythea is working on a commercial product. Unlike Indigo a free version will stil be available, although it will not be as actively developed anymore.

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Oscar Baechler wrote: Hello! I am an art director at the Seattle, WA game company Prophetic Sky Inc. Last March, I taught a class on Blender fundamentals to kids in cooperation with SDK Bridge LLC and the Yesler Community Center. It was a great experience, and I wanted to share it with the Blender community, especially since we'll hopefully be having the class again this Summer.

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Demo reel by the Argentinian animation studio Licuadora Studios. Content is 100% Blender.

Tonight and tomorrow-night you can see a realtime, evolving artwork projection at the campus of the University of Reading.

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After more than three years, the popular (and free!) classroom tutorial book 'Blender Basics' has received a thorough upgrade.

Continue Reading 'Blender Basics Book- 3rd Edition' »

In the basement of the BlenderNation research labs, I've been working on a new part of the website: BlenderNation Links. BN Links will be a large database containing Blender tutorials, models, materials, textures, scripts… you name it! Everything neatly tagged and powered by an easy to use but powerful search system.

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The first Argentinian Blender conference will be held from May 29th – 30th in Córdoba.

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"LuxRender is an open-source, free software rendering system for physically correct, unbiased image synthesis. Rendering with LuxRender means simulating the flow of light according to physical equations. This produces realistic, photographic-quality images."

After the announcement that the Indigo renderer is planning to go commercial, LuxRender got a lot of attention. A new version has just been released.

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The planetarium of the Weber State University (see also their Blender production 'The Nature of Science' and their free Fisheye camera rig) is offering two news Blender workshops. Participants will be able to see their work on the planetarium's full-dome digital projector.

Continue Reading 'June 1-5, June 22-26 2009, Ogden, Utah: Novice Level Workshop' »

The Chinese Blender community now have their own magazine. Congratulations!

Continue Reading 'Chinese BlenderCN Magazine Issue #4 Released' »

I'm Guillaume Magnaudet, a multimedia designer working in a french company: SILAB. I've recently created an animation about two metabolic pathways particularly important in the maitenance of skin barrier function homeostasis.

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