Article submitted by Chris Want. Student Jingyuan Huang (aka yukishiro) has been working hard on her Google Summer of Code project "Blender Light Paint using Spherical Harmonics", an interactive tool for artists to create, modify, and preview image-based lighting environments specified by HDR light probe images.

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Nathan Letwory wrote: Hey BN – this is as short message about what is currently happening to:

• http://www.planetblender.org
• http://www.blender-fi.org
• http://www.blenderstorm.org
• http://www.letworyinteractive.com (Wiki PDF hosting)

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Article submitted by Yorik van Havre. Chico Ortiz (Thorgal on blenderartists) just made a small but excellent blender game. The game was made for an exhibition called "Santos Dumont, designer" in São Paulo, Brazil, until 3rd of May. The exhibition shows many aeroplane sketches and models (one is full-size), and Chico made a small flight simulation game which runs on 4 screens inside the exhibition, so visitors can experiment flying the planes.

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Article submitted by Tony Mullen. If you're a fan of Japanese anime culture or just want to practice your character animation skills on a top-notch, professional quality rigged model, this news will definitely be of interest to you.

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Article submitted by Teachers Kleber and Paulo. To carry on with the idea of using Blender in the educational area, we have given the first and important step applying activities for students between the 2nd and 4th grades (Elementary School).

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Article submitted by Joel Davies. After a decline in entries, there has been much discussion on the BlenderArtists forums on how to improve the Animation Challenges to encourage more people to participate. Finally we can see the results of those discussions in the first improved Blender Animation Challenge.

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While looking for an answer related to the game engine in Blender (I am working on a little platformer game where you control a toadstool mushroom,) I noticed a thumbnail on BlenderArtists to this amazing real-time model.

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