While still a child in the Blender Universe of Forums, Blender-PT has already grown enough to sport his own contest.

You read right… but keep reading, cause there are prizes involved too.

UPDATE: Sybex decided to sponsor us and Tony Mullen has accepted to sign the book and send it directly to the winner.

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The second session of TOSMI is drawing near (6th - 12th of August).

If you missed the deadline to submit your application you are in luck, seems like there are two more scholarships available.

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Seems like the Portuguese community keeps growing.
And with this in mind we see some cool events coming up, such as this one.

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Its been long since the first TOSMI session ended and we were so busy that we missed the final article. Now with the deadline for the second TOSMI session getting near we decided to show what happened at the end of the first session.

Here is a heads up on how everything turned out.

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Five days have already gone by and the first TOSMI is near its end. But hold on tight, although its near its end, its far from over, just read how hectic it has been for the last 3 days.

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You guys must be thinking this sentence is wrong because a lot of Portuguese forums are already available online, true. But all of them are for Brazil and not Portugal, this is the first and only forum available to BlenderHeads that live in Portugal.

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The second day of TOSMI ended and we are really happy about how things are evolving, not only are the trainees catching up but they are also enthusiastic about it, we can surely say they are more motivated then we anticipated.

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One of our readers pointed out sometime ago that Portuguese readers have a lot more books available, yes you read right.

Seems like we missed one Portuguese Blender book, but luckily someone was kind enough to point it out.

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Yes, you read right.

Open Source Multimedia Training organized by the InterSpace Media Arts Center and sponsored by the European Union.

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Well, seems like it was yesterday that I was in Beja to give some Workshops in the Animatu Festival.

And now we have the announcement that Animatu 2007 is already kicking off, having a call for entries.

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I've been really busy lately, but still managed to take some time to keep you all updated with the latest CVS changes.

I waited till Ton officially said that CVS was in Freeze state to write this article. What this really means is, no more features are getting included and the team is entering the Bug Fixing state.

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Already wondering why the CVS report hadn't appeared?

No, we didn't ditch it, but we did wait for some new features to be available before posting the report.

The title gives you a hint, but I'm sure you aren't even close to imagine what changed this past month.

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Well, with October coming to an end, its time for a new CVS report. Everyone wants to know what happened during the past month.

You might have been wondering why I haven't posted this already, the reason is really simple, we decided to include some features added to the CVS during this weekend and also generate the proper builds for testing.

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To all of you following what is being done for the upcoming versions of Blender, this might be a really good one to keep an eye on.

Jahka has been rewriting the Particles system. And while I would normally save this for my monthly CVS report I just couldn't wait to show you guys his latest image.

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Well, the title says it all, Elephants Dream (ED) has been nominated for the 3D Shorts category. The announcement can be seen at the official website and the competition is harder then one might think.

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For those not coming to the Blender Conference 2006, the next best thing is to have it recorded. Even if you are coming, I'm sure that with so much things being presented at the same time you will miss something you would like to see.

This is where Filipp Lepalaan comes to the rescue.

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In case you haven't noticed, Club Silo, the Arcade Racer Game being done by Luma using the Blender Game Engine has been updated to version 1.1, adding some major improvements to it.

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If you haven't noticed, the Blender Conference 2006 Program is already online and I must say that this seems to be one of the best so far.

It will be my third Conference and believe me when I say, it will be one heck of a weekend !

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