Get in the mood for Halloween with these video tutorials by Jonathan Williamson:

• Model a pumpkin – day 1, day 2.
• Creating a Witches Hat
• Creating a Jack-O-Lantern

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Until a few days ago the well established game engine 'Unity' had a $200 indie version for purchase, which has now been dropped in favor of a free version. Great news for indie game developers and Blender users as Unity has a strong degree of Blender support built in.

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An *extensive* video tutorial teaching you how to create your own Manga Character.

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It just became a lot easier to play Yo Frankie for Ubuntu Linux users.

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Things are gearing up for the 2010 Blender Game competition. We saw similar contests organized by Erwin in 2006, 2007 and more recently the one organized by malcando earlier in 2009.

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In his latest video, Paul Caggegi covers a number of tips including camera rigging and asset management.

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During the Blender Conference there was a heated discussion on the topic of Blender documentation. Wray Bowling now reports on a new 2.5 feature that was recently added to easily access documentation for any user interface feature.

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GraphicAll it experiencing some troubles due to hackers, it seems. Admin ZanQdo is working on it – if you see weight pills ads instead of Blender builds, use this direct link for now.

It's surprising that nobody thought of this before: Blender-Games aims to offer all completed Blender games, complete with graphics and videos. It's very nicely designed and already has a lot of great content.

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Three new Blender workshops have been announced.

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Allan Brito has published a mini-tutorial on how to use FreeStyle rendering in the current 2.50 builds.

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Is your Blender production turning into a spiderweb of linked libraries? Blender-aid can help.

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We've bundled a few Durian updates for your reading pleasure today.

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Andrew Price wrote down the 7 biggest 'discoveries' of the Blender Conference 2009.

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Continue Reading 'Blender entry makes final 15 of British E Sting competition' »

I tried to share my Blender Conference pictures live yesterday, but my iPhone's battery drained a *lot* faster than I expected. So I'm calling the Blender Conference attendees: send us your pictures and we'll include them in our Flickr stream. Here's how to do it:

• Mail your picture to bart @ this website.
• For the mail subject, use 'Day: Title' (Like Saturday: dinner).
• You can include an optional description and your name in the email body.
• Use one email per photo.

All pictures will be available on the BlenderNation Flickr stream. Thanks!

A subsidiary of the Thai government has released two *very* extensive ebooks on Blender and the GIMP.

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