Kernon Dillon from BlenderNewbie has published a three-part videotutorial on the creation of a magic wand particles effect.

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Sebastian Pelan is working on a setup to make Blender camera manipulation more intuitive for filmmakers.

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A new Blender training is planned from July 20-24th in Moncada, Valencia, Spain.

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

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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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CurtisS wrote:

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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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).

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

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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