Have you ever wondered how to create alpha masks for compositing in Blender?  Well, Philippe Roubal has written an explanation on how to do rotoscopoing and matte painting in Blender, so check it out now!

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It's finally here!  The Blender Foundation's next open movie, the Durian Project, has been announced and it's looking awesome.  Check out the Durian Project now!

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"Drone" is an impressive experimental short by Andreas Fischer, made with Blender and After Effects.
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Alexandre Prokoudine writes:

The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual workshop for developers and users of free software graphics applications to collaborate and advance the cause of high-quality free graphics software.

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"Cocedi" (meaning "Neighbours") is a short Russian animation made in Blender.  I especially like the intro sequence, which is a good mesh between visuals and music.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb) will be teaching a live class on Edgeloop Methodology at Blenducation this coming Saturday.

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Ton Roosendaal has some great news about the upcoming Blender conference in October! Check out what he has to say:
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Guess what? Jonathan Williamson has done it again! This time he brings us a 6 part series on head modeling, completely free to watch online. Check it out here!

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Hongkiat.com recently posted a list of 60 websites that are hosting free 3D models. Go ahead and tap into this excellent resource!

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Daniel Salazar (ZanQdo) will be teaching a Blenducation class on the basic rigging of a human, including: building the armature, parenting, IK, revers footlock, action constraint, and skinning.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching his second live 3-hour class (in the series of 3 classes,) continuing on the character model he blocked out in the first lesson. Once again the live class will be held at Blenducation. The class starts Saturday, March 7, with an entry fee of $20 (USD) for the class.

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"Classical Girl" is an excellent piece of CG artwork made by Wang Shiyong, and he has written up a making-of article on the creation process of this fine work.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching about modeling a character in a series of 3 live classes, each 3 hours long, all at Blenducation. The first class starts Saturday, February 28, with an entry fee of $20 (U.S.) for the class.

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Two weeks ago I attended my first Blenducation class, taught by David Hickson (Dipingo) himself. The class cost 5$ and was on particle hair (and an array of other useful tools, such as texture painting, animated particle hair with softbodies, basic UV mapping, and so forth.)

At the end of the class, Dipingo came up with an idea: "We'll have a particle hair animation contest!" Well, he gave us two weeks to complete our entries and now the contest submissions have been sent in, so it's your turn to vote for the winner!

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Pigru, a new commercial game by daubIt, designed specifically for the iPod iPhone and iTouch brings you a 3D world where you rotate the screen to solve the picture puzzle.
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Dropping by BlenderArtists, I noticed some of the featured artwork and decided to check it out.  Here are three works by Marcin Wodzynski (Marcin.)  I also did an interview with him.  Thanks, Marcin!

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Guess what?  Another great artist is using Blender in his workflow!  His name is Heiko Klug (Jesar,) and PSDTUTS recently did an interview with him.  Heiko Klug is simply inspirational!

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Phil McCoy of Project London has recently uploaded a new video clip featuring special effects shots from the Project London film, showing the live action footage and 3D animation composited together!

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