If you live nearby Krems – Austria, Karl Kühberger will teach a Blender Workshop at Danube University Krems.

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The Danube University Krems (Austria) has invited me to teach Blender in a workshop of five full days. The workshop will be held in German language and will take place in the time between 26th to 28th of August (3 days modeling and texturing) and 27th to 28th of September (2 days rigging and animation).

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An article about Big Buck Bunny was published on Linux.com, and it`s a great summary of the project. A few extra details are revealed in the article, like the overall cost of the project.

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Would you like to learn how to export your scenes to the MAP file format? This is a format supported by some Id software's games like Quake. If you want to create scenarios for these games with Blender, a very interesting tutorial shows how to export and setup models to this file format.

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Do you remember Project London? The independent feature film, which uses Blender for 3d animation and some effects, has a great clip with a sample animation. And again, the clip has some impressive animations!

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As you all know, Blender will be at SIGGRAPH this year and LetterRip from the Blenderartists forums is gathering links to videos that shows some of the impressive features of Blender.

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Do you remember Hangar No.5? This short movie uses Blender for all 3d animation and effects. A few weeks ago Bart wrote an article about the trailer and release of the movie.

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The first playable demo from the Apricot Project is available to download. Now you can try out a test level of the game, and play around with Frank.

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A new version of LuxRender, the unbiased open source render engine was released a few days ago. And this release presents a lot of new features.

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A company from Brazil called Gamion, just used Blender to produce a virtual tour of a few blocks from Sao Paulo.

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A few days ago, Campbell Barton was interviewed by the guys of The Linux Link Tech Show, about the Big Buck Bunny project.

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Here is a great tutorial created by Michael Jones, showing how to model a female head. It's not a time lapse, actually the whole tutorial has more than one hour of video!

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We all know very well the great tutorials from Montage Studio. And now they are offering some free models to download as well! The first one is a male body model.

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Here is a great tutorial on how to do camera tracking in Blender, using the Voodoo camera tracker. The Voodoo software can estimates camera parameters, like position and rotation and reconstructs a 3d scene from image sequences.

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All the SoC 2008 projects are really cool, but a lot of people are expecting the integration o Freestyle with Blender for a long time, and now that Maxime Curioni is working on the integration, the expectations are increasing.

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Do you know how to use the new features in the recently released apricot branch? If you want to know, just take a look at this great video tutorial, showing some great new tools for snapping, library browsing and baking.

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Do you remember Zanno? He was on the Blender 2.36 splash screen. Pablo Vazquez (AKA VenomGFX), the creator of Zanno, just published a great video tutorial, applying the new Blender physics (Particles and Soft Body) to Zanno.

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One of the coolest scripts that came along with Blender 2.46, is the Trees From Curves. This script was developed for the Peach Project, to create trees and brushes. If you want to know the basics of how this script works, Ideasman42 has produced a video tutorial, showing the basics to create a tree model.

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A very good set of video tutorials about Blender has been published by Jason Welsh, an experienced producer of training videos for cg.

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