Pildanovak has developed a very useful composite node which can make bas-reliefs out of regular 3d models. Originally bas-reliefs can be seen throughout the art history but are very difficult to make by hand (be it in real-life or 3d).

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Bobby Beck,  CEO of Animation Mentor will conducting a Webinar interview with Disney Producer Don Hahn

"Don Hahn recently edited a two-book compilation of Disney icon Walt Stanchfield's  drawings and teachings. Hear how Walt Stanchfield mentored a generation of influential animators in the industry."

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Pepe-School-Land students are doing some awesome modeling and animation in Blender as evidenced by these videos. The demo reel has a mixture of work done in Blender and other programs and is well worth watching. A Blender icon will appear in the lower left hand corner of the demo  to designate work completed in Blender.

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The 4th Animarte - International Animation Festival is receiving submissions until September 30, 2009. Animarte is open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less. There is no entry or registration fee and all animation techniques are accepted.

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Jeremiah W. has created a  video for the skinit.com 60 second commercial contest. He used Blender to render and animate the 3D models, as well as some other elements. The actual electronic models were purchased on the web, "as my skills and patience did no allow for the quality that I could buy ;-) (plus I got them at a really good price)". All of the texturing, animation, lighting, and rendering were done in Blender.

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Anfeo  shows us how he sculpts the likeness of a character from the ABC TV's show Lost, Benjamin Linus.  This is a two hour sculpting video broken down into a four part series.

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The Blender Foundation is currently testing the first Release Candidate 1 for 2.49.

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The BBC is looking for someone in the UK (3rd week in May) to do an informal demo of Blender to a bunch of MA Art students - creating 3D content for a 3D Holographic Projection.

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It's nice to see that  Autodesk is open to other "free" software in their competition. This  was sent to us by Chris Folea who wrote: "We recently created an animation for an Autodesk sponsored high school competition within the F.I.R.S.T (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition.

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Kernon has posted a  a tutorial on efficient preview rendering at CG Cookie.

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Registration for SIGGRAPH 2009 is now open! There are several registration options available to help you customize your experience at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans.

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The GSOC 2009 has been announced and with some exciting improvements for Blender. It looks like that if all goes well we may be seeing some significant speed enhancements.

A BIG thank you to Google for supporting Blender again!

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In this tutorial from Kernon Dillon,  he'll show you  how simple it is to drastically effect the look and feel of your renders by applying textures to lighting.

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This video titled "Journey to the Center of a Tube" is about vacuum tubes that are used in guitar amps. It was created for The Tube Depot and the demonstration animation in this video was done by Jay Phillips using Blender. For you aspiring Blues guitarist, the 6L6 tube gives a nice warm tone and is used in many guitar amplifiers such as Fender and my favorite, Dumble.

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Sterling Roth was recently hired by Colt to create demonstration video for Colt show booth this past January. " All of the models were provided by colt in Pro Engineer format. I animated and textured the weapons and added in other effects. They were rendered in Blender internal with AAO. Total time spent animating this particular animation was about 25 hours, and about 55 hours for all 4 animations in total, minus render times.

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From Tony Mullen:

Hi Everybody,

I wanted to let people know that the next Japanese Blender Party is coming up in Tokyo this month! If you're planning to be in Japan on the 25th of April, be sure not to miss it!

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Shawn Kelly,  Senior Animator with Industrial Light and Magic and a co-founder of Animation Mentor has just released his second volume of Animation Tips & Tricks. The book  includes contributions from Animation Mentor Partner Carlos Baena, animator with PIXAR, as well as animation veterans Aaron Gilman, Animator at Weta Digital, Keith Sintay Senior Animator at Digital Domain and Wayne Gilbert, Animation Director.

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Discovery World, a technology museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is offering a 3 night workshop covering 3D Design on a budget, as a part of our DIY Media series. The class consists of 3 two hour sessions starting on April 7th, which cover will the basics of creating 3D graphics for a variety of mediums. These workshops are being taught by 2005 Suzanne Award winner, Chris Larkee.

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