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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I'm at the Blender Conference now and during the day I'll be shooting pictures of events and people. The pictures will go straight to our new BlenderNation Flickr stream. Enjoy!

Videotutorial provider CG Cookie have spun off a Blender-only service earlier this week: Blender Cookie. I talked to Wes Burke about this project.

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Very uncomfortable yet intriguing to see; I kept thinking of Elephants Dream while watching this.

The Blender Foundation have received sponsorship to hire a full-time Blender developer for 9 months to work on Blender 2.5. If the project goes well, they will pay for another period to work on other Blender projects. Ton just announced that Matt Ebb (Blender coding/animation guru) has agreed to fill the position. The sponsoring party remains undisclosed ("but it's not Steve Jobs, don't worry!").

The Blender Conference 2009 can be followed live here (Quicktime or VLC required). A full overview is available on the website of De Balie (page auto-translated from the original page in Dutch). Enjoy! BlenderNation will be at the scene tomorrow and I'll try to make a decent video report of the event.

Joeri Kassenaar has created a Blender folder icon for OSX users. Nice and clean.

A new Blender workshop in Alcantarilla, Spain with two famous Blenderheads: Pablo Vazquez (Venomgfx) and
Claudio Andaur (Malefico)! Date is 9-10 November.

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Renderosity features a *long* article about Blender books.
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French non-profit organisation Labomedia has hosted a number of Blender classes in the past. Their next one is planned from 26 to 30 October 2009.
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Blender Newbies have published a three part video tutorial on creating a low-poly cartoon hand.

Links

• Video Tutorial: Basic Hand Structure for 3D Modeling
• Video Tutorial: Basic Blocking for a 3D Cartoon Hand
• Video Tutorial: Finishing the Low-Poly 3D Cartoon Hand

Oscar Baechler reports on last week's Blender User Group meeting in Seattle and announces the next one.

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Paul Fitzpatrick uses Blender template files to generate interactive Flash content for websites. His latest experiment is a tattoo previewer.

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Blender 2.50 will contain a materials library 'out of the box'! That's a very nice feature if you ask me. A call for materials has been posted on the forums.

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LuxRender have released their new 0.6 version. Congratulations to everyone involved!

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BlenderArt Magazine #5 is now available in Spanish.

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Watch in HD

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