This July will be the 5th Anniversary of YafRay and they want you to make a commemorative render for this anniversary.

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Igor Križanovskij has kept personal notes on his experiences with Blender and made them available in a wikibook format. In it, you'll find answers to beginner FAQs, a material Refraction Values Table, reference links, tips, rigs, .blend files and more.

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MaPZone, a Windows-based procedural texture editor, makes the bold claim of being the "most powerful texturing tool ever". Well…they've certainly made the effort to live up to the claim. What do you think?

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There's plenty of info available on how to create screencapture videos for the Windows and Mac platforms but, what about Linux? Chris Cherrett has come up with a simple (and free) solution…

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"Blender 2.44 was intended to be an upgrade release, mainly for plenty of bug fixes, but the developers took the effort of adding at least a few interesting new features."

Now there's an understatement.

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See if you can guess which image is a photo and which is a scene modeled in Blender.

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Here's another gem from Matt Ebb on exporting 3D curves, specifically to 3DS Max.

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With the help of Ian Ball, British police are entering the animation age this week in a bid to get the car crime prevention message across to young people.

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A vulnerability has been discovered in Blender allowing for user-assisted arbitrary code execution. We suspect that this issue affects Blender 2.42 on all platforms.

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It's always interesting to see the workflow and ideas of others so, here's an article on the character animation process.

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Here's a great time-saving tool created by Vaclav Chaloupka. It's been created to allow fast searching of materials in a scene with the ability to easily replace them with another material. But, that's not all it can do.

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Every now and then you stumble upon something that really is special and helps you to do something that, otherwise, would simply be an amazing pain in the you-know-where. This is one of those times.

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Here's a great resource of Blender's Game Engine games, demos, and tutorials that is a must-see for Game Engine enthusiasts.

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The recent article about the keystroke tool for video tutorials spurred my curiosity about the AutoHotkey scripting language. Looking further, it quickly became clear that there might be a way to remap keystrokes in Blender. I performed a couple of quick tests…

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How does your system compare to other systems when it comes to rendering your scenes in Blender? What's the best system configuration to optimize your rendering times? These questions, and more, have all crossed our minds at least once. Well, here's a way to begin to get some real-world information towards answering your questions.

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Video tutorials are great but, it's very difficult for authors to articulate every keystroke and mouse-click, along with performing everything else. Even when it can be done, it tends to make for longer tutorials because the author has to slow down.

Well, here's a tool for video tutorial authors that may prove to be quite helpful.

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Here's a great script and tutorial, created by "blendenzo" for Blender's Game Engine, showing you how to easily create a custom mouse cursor for your game projects.

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Here's a simple, yet pleasing example of Blender's Displacement Modifier done by Robert J. Tiess (RobertT).

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