Sagedread Unlimited has set up a video collection of Blender video tutorials, completely free and viewable online.  They call it Blendercast.

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Blender was named as one of the Top 10 Animation/VFX Tools by Animation Magazine!

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As much as this sounds like another open source project, it's not.  Rather, The Emily Project is a very impressive life-like human representation by Image Metrics.

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Oscar Alvarado (of Gothique Studios) has released a teaser trailer of his new animated short, "Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle", animated by Oscar Alvarado and Martha Vaquera.  The video looks quite promising!

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Great news!  Ton posted an update about Blender 2.5 and it's sounding great!  (Thanks to Tim Suess for the head's up!)  Here's a little snippet of the report:

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Alain Mathez (mcBlyver) has created some companion videos to his rigging tutorials that were featured in the BlenderArt magazine #19.  The videos show off what can be done with these rigging examples (a furniture hinge and a catepiller soft track) in real-time.  Quite impressive.

Update: Alain has posted an updated version of his tutorial here.

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Jean-Sébastien Guillemette from Montage Studios has started giving Blender workshops in Montréal! Check out what he has to say about it:

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Check out "Infinite Jest," a video by Manuel Quiñones [manuq.]  I asked him a few questions over e-mail about his animation:

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William Reynish, character animator of Big Buck Bunny, worked the past few months on a wonderful training DVD on character animation techniques.
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Recently a seminar was held in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.  Go ahead and read the report from Gumanoed!

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Ivan Hoffmann (digitalh) has made a case study on a great compositing technique for turning a day shot into a night shot – and he had to do the compositing work in a short amount of time.  For all you filmmakers out there, here's your chance to learn more about this very useful "Day to Night" technique!

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Here is a report on Google Summer of Code Summit from Kent Mein.  Go ahead and read what he has to say

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Daniel MArtinez Lara (psl/pepeland) has just uploaded a couple of videos showing how to use Blender's sculpt tool for animation using blend shapes.  The results look quite promising!

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