Interested in making realistic Earth models with stunning topography and recent climate changes? NASA, the ever popular space program has once again amazed us with high resolution photographs of our great planet Earth.

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With all of the hype about Blender Compositor Node system, Fluid simulation, Game Engine, etc. it is nice to see that we don't forget the good old Blender UI! Matt over at his blog has recently published a really interesting menu selector concept which he refers to as Radial (Pie) Menus. This concept is nothing new but it is a very interesting and fast selection mode.

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Chronoh over at Yafray.org recently posted a header design contest in the forums for the entire Yafray community. According to the thread, the Yafray site will be the splash area for several lucky header image designers. The images will be displayed randomly for an entire week.

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A lot of Blenderheads want to customize Blender to their designing preferences. Some like dark colors and others like light colors. Some like blue others, such as VenomGFX like pink! Back in the day, people would pass their default blend files around. When this became cumbersome, Willian P. Germano created the simple Blender Theme Script which allowed for a whole new way of saving and loading Blender Themes. It has now become one of the many features that Blender offers (File>Export>Save Current Theme…).

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BlenderNation had the chance to sit down and have an interview with the latest addition to the Plumiferos film project. You all know and love Pablo Vazuez as VenomGFX. With this incredible and talent and down to earth personality he's been one of the most popular Blender graphic artists! This interview is an inside glimpse into the life of one artist at Plumiferos:

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We wrote earlier about Firefox Flicks Blender Animations. During the creation of the FoxFire entry the author has written a really good tutorial on using Blender's Sequencer and the Alpha Over effect in particular. This is a great effect and an even greater mystery to many, but this tutorial will help you understand just how to setup one of the most popular sequencing effects!

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