A quick and easy solution on how to render a Normal Pass out of Blender that will work with the ‘Normality’-plugin in After Effects. Blend file included.

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The University of Granada, in Spain use Blender to create educational material for their courses. Last year, they published a video on Solid State Physics. This year, a video that instructs students on the use of an oscilloscope.

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The Argentinean studio McFly Studios is working on a series of short 3D films using Blender. Jorge Rausch (of Plumiferos fame) reports.

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Today's Developers meeting notes: 2.49b release around the corner? Blender 2.5 update, Durian feature list and Durian community involvement update.

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Another tasty preview of Janne Karhu's [Jakha] upcoming point cache editing tools for Blender 2.5. As of now, you can not only edit/comb particle systems, but also soft body and cloth simulations. Stop drooling, please.

The New York City Blender User's Group is holding a meeting at NYU Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 2 pm in Roger's Hall. (Just go there and look for the signs for which room)

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I'm pleased to announce that 'Havoc', the live action/3D movie created by teenage filmmakers from New Zealand, has won the overall competition and also got the prize for best special effects.

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British Blender artist Sumit Sarkar has published a timelapse video of the creation of Ganesh, a Hindu deiti. He also created twelve extensive video tutorials on character creation. You may remember Sumit from his live 'Blender, HipHop and Curry' performance earlier this year.

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The Macquairie ICT Innovation Centre in Sydney, Australia has published a series of freely introductory video tutorials for high school students.

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Sebastian König has created two new video-tutorials for cmiVFX. The topics are unwrapping+baking and texture-painting. Note: cmiVFX provides on-line streaming video tutorials – not DVD's.

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During their first week-long workshop, the Durian team have gone over the requirements for new/improved Blender functionality. Brecht did a write-up on the Durian blog.

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Sandra Gilbert writes: As excitement builds around the launch of the Durian Project, we decided to share in some of the fun and devote an issue to Epic Fantasy. This issue is filled with articles that are guaranteed to inspire you to start a few epics of your own. And speaking of the Durian Project, the team members have all arrived and are already starting to get things organized for their Epic Fantasy. Preliminary Blender Development Projects have already been established and discussions are already underway for developing the visual style of the movie.

So grab your copy today.

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More Blender sightings and a vanity BlenderNation sighting!

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A group of young filmmakers have entered the 'Meccano Mad Movie Challenge' with their live action/3D movie 'Havoc'.

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Things were hectic at the Blender Foundation this week with the arrival of the Durian team. Still, Ton managed to list the most important issues for you.

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Ever had that D'oh! feeling after making a mistake in a comment? You can now make changes to your comments for up to 15 minutes after posting them. Enjoy, and please let me know if there are any problems with it.

If you want to try it out, please feel free to post some crazy comments in this post ;-)

Another issue of BlenderArt Magazine has been translated into Spanish.

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The GIMP team have just released version 2.7. This version is a 'development' version, or a snapshot of the current version in their development tree. While it's not stable or final, it contains a lot of new goodness that may be useful to you.

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