Do you know what an animatic is? If you don`t know, let Sacha, from the Peach team tell you! In this interview started by Campbell Barton, Sacha tells us what an animatic is, and how they are managing the animatics for the Peach Movie.

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What do you think about cameras in Blender? Well, for K. G. Nyman the camera could be better, so he started to develop a script called BLenses, and now the script is available for download. This script makes the process of matching the actual lens focal length of a real scene, with a virtual scene in Blender, a lot easier. And it works for animations too!

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An artist called Marcos Caballero is using the Video Sequence Editor Blender to create some cool video transitions.

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The guys of Montage Studio just released another great video tutorial. This time the tutorial covers the basics of subdivision modeling, to create a simple character. Even for a basics tutorial, the video has some nice tips and tricks for this kind of modeling.

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Ribmosaic is another RenderMan exporter for Blender, but this time with a different approach. Mosaic was conceived to integrate all Blender structure with the RenderMan attributes.

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Here is another great model repository, now with a lot of car models. The DMI car 3d models are all available freely for download, in the LWO file format. That is fully compatible with Blender!

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A Blender artist called Antonio Gessi, has published a very cool guide about the Fluid Simulator options. To make this guide even more interesting, all parameters are illustrated with animations. For instance, when he explains how the Domain option works, there is an animation showing how the fluid will behave at different resolutions.

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Would you like to create a game in Blender, using a bit of artificial intelligence? Now you can! Two users from the Blenderartists forums, called p00f and Mmph!, published a series of eight tutorials on how to create a simple AI, using only logic bricks.

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The Peach project is already giving Blender a new Tool! It`s the Mesh Deform Modifier. This is a very cool new tool, which allows us to deform a mesh object, using another object. The modifiers works like the Lattice tool, but we can shape the deforming object with almost any kind of shape.

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The Bzoo Project is a game creation suite, which provides resources, for anyone interested on develop a multiplayer game with the Blender Game Engine. With the Bzoo templates is very easy to implement network gaming and more, like chats and communication between players.

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The first version of the TOSMI trainer's manual is available for download. All the experience acquired along the TOSMI classroom was gathered together for this manual, it will work as a guide for anyone interest on develop courses on open source media.

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The Autorig Script is a very interesting tool, which can automatically add bones and constraints to a newly created autorig-armature. It can easily setup an armature for a character.

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The Blender.org Art Gallery has been updated! You can check out the art work from October already.

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A cool article about the Papervision component, which allows Flash CS3 to work with 3D objects, was released by Computer Arts magazine. It works like a real-time 3D engine component. And they mention Blender at the article, as one of the tools that can produce 3D content to use in Flash.

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The winner of the 2007 Suzanne Awards for Best short film, called Night of the Living Dead Pixels was released for download. For this final version, the animation was improved with some better music and small errors fixed.

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The 3DCreative magazine has published another great making of, for a scene created with Blender. Now the scene is part of their challenge "Stylized Animal". An artist called Al-Haitham Jassar used Blender to create "The Croc", and he won the second place for this challenge.

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A new modeling system is in development for Blender, called B-Mesh. If you are curious about the new capabilities of the B-Mesh, ZanQdo was kind enough to produce a great video showing a preview of the system.

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The first product of the Blender Institute is ready to be released. It`s a DVD series called Blender Open Movie Workshop.

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