BlenderTips.com contains a large number of video and text tutorials. If you're new to Blender this may be an excellent way to get up to speed quickly.

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Pildanovak has developed a very useful composite node which can make bas-reliefs out of regular 3d models. Originally bas-reliefs can be seen throughout the art history but are very difficult to make by hand (be it in real-life or 3d).

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Learn how to make great looking trees in this 30 minute videotutorial by Andrew Price.

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Bobby Beck,  CEO of Animation Mentor will conducting a Webinar interview with Disney Producer Don Hahn

"Don Hahn recently edited a two-book compilation of Disney icon Walt Stanchfield's  drawings and teachings. Hear how Walt Stanchfield mentored a generation of influential animators in the industry."

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A few weeks ago I reviewed the DAVID 3D scanner for Shapeways. I tested it on the Suzanne statue that I won a couple of years back and was quite happy with the results (model download included ;-)

Of course, I had to return the unit so I was wondering: is anyone aware of a free (as in speech) setup to achieve similar results?

cmiVFX have announced their second Blender training video. This one is created by Sebastian König (see also Sebastian's other videos on BlenderNation) and focuses on organic modeling techniques such as sculpting, weight mapping, retopology and shrink wrapping.

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Hello all. The 2009 Blender F1 Challenge has concluded and the results are in…

ZORDAN defends his Title as the Blender F1 Champion!

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Here's a good videotutorial by the Process Diary that'll explain many rigging concepts. If you're an absolute rigging beginner, I recommend you read up on a few tutorials first – some good links are included in the article.

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The people behind the popular tutorials site CG Cookie have just launched a new online CG training website. They'll be supporting Blender right from the start.

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I used to think we shouldn't post Blender sightings on BN anymore, but they just keep coming! I guess people just really like them, so here goes – we'll collect them and post compilations every now and then. Enjoy! :)

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Marco Rapino is doing the coolest experiments with Blender. Last time, he linked his N95's accelerometer to Blender. Today, he shows how to do real-time laser or object tracking using nothing more than a webcam, a laser pointer and a pen.

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Stay for a week in a space radio observatory in Russia and learn all you can about Blender! Sounds awesome :)

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101 entries. 5 votes. Go!

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Pepe-School-Land students are doing some awesome modeling and animation in Blender as evidenced by these videos. The demo reel has a mixture of work done in Blender and other programs and is well worth watching. A Blender icon will appear in the lower left hand corner of the demo  to designate work completed in Blender.

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The game contest (being run by malCanDo) has been going for a few months now is into the final stage: Voting.

There's a lot of great game entries to check out and play, so get voting!

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You might have seen this in Ben Dansie's Durian application demo reel (after being selected as one of the final Durian team members), but he has recently come up with a very cool way to make flames and fire using Blender.

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OpenArtist is a new Linux distribution. It's based on Ubuntu but completely tricked out on graphics – and Blender software.

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Here's a good demonstration by Allan Brito of 'light groups', a feature of LuxRender that makes it very easy to tweak the settings of the lights in your scene. (Remember to turn on 'HD' once you're over at Vimeo).