The Ott Planetarium (see also our previous posts) have released their latest production, 'Sizing up Space' as an open movie – including all source files. In addition, they have planned a new workshop.

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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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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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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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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!