The 4th Animarte – International Animation Festival is receiving submissions until September 30, 2009. Animarte is open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less. There is no entry or registration fee and all animation techniques are accepted.

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The Blender Foundation released Blender 2.49a earlier today. Ton Roosendaal writes:

Testing is an art… as usual a release shows the real issues! A lot of work has been done to tackle the reports in AO render, Game Engine and Sequencer especially.

Links

• 2.49a Bugfixes overview
• Download Blender 2.49a

Jeremiah W. has created a  video for the skinit.com 60 second commercial contest. He used Blender to render and animate the 3D models, as well as some other elements. The actual electronic models were purchased on the web, "as my skills and patience did no allow for the quality that I could buy ;-) (plus I got them at a really good price)". All of the texturing, animation, lighting, and rendering were done in Blender.

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The last five team members have just been announced by the Blender Foundation! All team members and their portfolios are presented on the 'About Durian' page now as well.

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Anfeo  shows us how he sculpts the likeness of a character from the ABC TV's show Lost, Benjamin Linus.  This is a two hour sculpting video broken down into a four part series.

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This seems to be the season of Blender Conferences! Today: Germany.

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Heres something cool, a new game being made using Blender for all the 3D work, and the Unity game engine. The smooth and professional style of the game is promising and it looks like it will be fun to play, with plenty of gore :)

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Two great Durian updates just came in: they've received almost 150 submissions – 100 more than for Big Buck Bunny. I guess that participating in a Blender Open Project is gaining more and more attention in the CG world!

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User meetings are starting to show up everywhere on the globe. Have you thought about starting one yet?

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'The Secret of Kells' has won the audience award on the Annecy '09 film festival. Parts of this movie have been produced in Blender by the Belgian studio Digital Graphics, who we also know from 'Friday or another day' and 'The Mask of the Red Death'. Congratulations guys!

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Ever wondered how to set up the new video textures feature in the Blender Game Engine?  Dennis has written a easy to follow tutorial on exactly how to do it.

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ZanQdo writes:

I'd like to proclame a new record of number of polygons ever rendered in Blender: 1.15 billion tris with blurry reflections. Rendertime 23 min, Mem 200 mb

Can anyone top that?

Pahelika: Secret Legends is a game made by IronCode software. They used Blender to render out all of the games visuals.

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Pablo Vazquez writes:

New Blender's event system is working like a charm, with realtime updates, and non-blocking tools. Check this video to see how I can playback an animation, while modeling, tweaking the interface, materials, rendering, everything realtime.

Blenducation is preparing an 'artist driven' Blender training by Andy Goralczyk (art director of Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, creator of Creature Factory and Blender Guru extraordinaire) on Blenducation for Saturday June 20th. Tomorrow (June 13th) is a preparatory live chat with Andy where he asks for your input.

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Marco Rapino has created a Python script to use the N95's accelerometer data in the Blender game engine.

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After a little over one month of downtime, Planet Blender is back! Congrats, Nathan! :)

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