I know you are probably waiting for your Big Buck Bunny DVD or the internet release, but don't forget about the Apricot project, which is still running. If you want to take a look at some of the new tools, developed for Apricot, a few test builds are starting to appear!
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The second YafRay annual contest has started! If you use Blender 3d and YafRay, this is a great opportunity to put creativity creative energy into an interest project.
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Here are two great tutorials about Baking light and normal maps, created by Viktor W., and the tutorials use new features from Blender 2.46!
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Do you want to learn how to build a house in Blender? A Blender artist called Vaclav Chaloupka, was kind enough to create an incredible set of three video tutorials, showing the detailed process of modeling a complete house in Blender.
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Have you ever manage to simulate human skin, only with Blender materials? An artist from the Blenderartists forums, called Pixelvore, has made some incredible experiments with SSS and Nodes to simulate human skin, and the results are amazing!
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If you always wanted to know, what was going on at the Blender development commits, now you can!
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The Blender 2.46 RC4 has been released, only for windows. Along with the RC4 release, a message posted at the weekly meeting from the Blender developers, report a one week delay until the final release.
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Yes! Blender 2.46 RC3 is available to download, and it looks like a stable release is very close.
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Do you know how to use all the new tools of the upcoming Blender 2.46? No? Would you like to learn how to use some of them with a set of video tutorials? Now you can!
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A Blender artist called Alex Fraser has published on his web site a great tutorial on how to setup the eyes of a character to track a target.
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The projects that will participate on the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been announced, and again Blender was awarded with 6 projects!
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The first stable release of Indigo Renderer, since it reached 1.0 is available to download. Actually, this stable release is version 1.0.9.
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The MontageStudio has published another great tutorial about character modeling. This time it`s a timelapse of a Steam-Punk head.
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Have you ever tried to use the script to integrate Blender and V-Ray? If you don't know how to use it, now there is a great video tutorial on how to use them.
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The new Cloth simulation system of Blender brings a lot of possibilities for animation. Did you try it already? Well, a few artists are actually playing around with it, and they are creating amazing simulations!
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A new book about Blender has been released in Brazil. The book "Modelando personagens com Blender 3D", which could be translated to: Character Modeling with Blender 3D.
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A new version of the MOSAIC exporter script is coming, and to show what this new release will be able to do, a few test renders were published on the Blender Artists forums. And they are quite impressive!
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