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Byron Kindig wrote: Due to the lack of response to the Tennessee Blender Conference August 1 and 2, 2009, we are forced to cancel it for this year. All money collected is being returned. The Tri Cities Blender Group will be hosting a free mini conference the day of our regular next meeting on Sunday, August 9.

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Recently entered into the Blender Game Contest was a beautifully made game entitled 'Megagolf' by Supersocks on BA. This is a true example of what can be achieved currently with the BGE, both with graphics and gameplay.

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LuxRender has started a Materials Database from which you can download materials as well as upload you own content to it.  It looks pretty impressive so far. While you are at the LuxRender site check out the gallery too. There are some wonderful Blender LuxRenders  in the exhibit.

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Karan Shah has created an excellant 96 step mega architectural tutorial on CG Tuts .  "You will go through all the motions necessary to construct a complete, photo-realistic kitchen scene in Blender, and then render it with Yafaray (a free ray tracing, open source rendering engine)."

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Ton Roosendaal received an honorary doctorate in technology at the Leeds Metropolitan University yesterday. Here's a short first interview with him.

JeriH has released his George Rig 1.0. and he's obviously put a lot of thought into this rigging, keeping the animator in mind all the time with simplified controls and a separate window for the entire IK/FK controllers with a nice GUI background. In addition he's completed a companion manual for it.

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Ton Roosendaal will be receiving an honorary doctorate at the Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK later today for his work on Blender. A streaming video of the entire ceremony (direct link for Windows Media Player here) will start at 11am UK time (GMT+1) and is expected to last for two hours. As it will cover multiple persons, we can't predict when Ton will be on.

More details and photographs will follow later today.

Update: Ton was the first graduant to speak. His part is over now.

Update: 07-16-09 4:11PM CEST: Added pictures – Tim

Update: 07-17-09: More pictures added. Video registration of the entire event. Ton makes his appearance around 22:30.
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Hand Turkey Studios is going to allow live public access to our production as we compete this coming weekend (17-19 July) in this year's 48 Hour Film Project in Richmond, Virginia. We assembled a team and competed last year with the ambitious goal of completing an animation in Blender as our submitted work.

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Gord Goodwin aka feelgoodcomics has released very nice and useful script for weights normalization.

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Endi has just informed us of a commercial game being made by him and the team he is currently working with. The game is called 'Ignite' and is a car racing game for the PC.

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Brendon Murphy aka Meta-Androcto has created script tool-kits where you can download  scripts by category.

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The Blender Store or 'E-Shop' has just had a major makeover. Now its looking more pro than ever!

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Learn how to create masks and layer image elements
Animate locations and shapes to match-move live-action footage
Add special effects to stills and video
Sequence and transition between shots
Publish your audio/video for TV broadcast, digital cinema, fill mastering, and webcast.

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Roger Wickes aka PapaSmurf is about to release his  book  "Foundation Blender Compositing" later this month.   He stated to me that its "at the printer's".

Roland Hess aka Harkyman, author of "The Essential Blender" book and "Animating with Blender" is the technical reviewer. Roland also programed the colored shadows in Blender.

Learn how to create masks and layer image elements
Animate locations and shapes to match-move live-action footage
Add special effects to stills and video
Sequence and transition between shots
Publish your audio/video for TV broadcast, digital cinema, fill mastering, and webcast.

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Yet another handy tutorial from Jonathan Williamson, this one is about how to use projection painting, a new feature in 2.49.

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Here are the latest Blender sightings:

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Georg Wieser aka Hoverkraft recently entered a Linux-themed contest titled "What do you do with Linux?".

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