We have just finished a music video for the band "Jack Daw". They are the winners of a music contest called "Moviet" All the close-ups on the birds are made completely in Blender, and some of the "bird crowds" are made with Blender, others in Adobe AfterEffects. The video have been awarded for "Best Music Video 2009" in "TellUs Movie Festival"

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Rajiv Mudgal makes Ads and Documentaries and  also made two animated serials as well as several short animated films. He recently did four ads for the India Post last year (which are being telecasted all over India right now.) These were done completely in Blender.  Apart from these, he has also done several promotional pieces in Blender (mainly Stills).

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We recently delivered a 3d sequence made in Blender for a new TV show on Dutch television for the Eftleng Efteling (a large Dutch theme park).

Our work was a 30sec and 10sec 3d sequence created 100% in Blender for the intro and outro sequence of a live action TV show called Klaas Vaak, about a wizard who draws in sand.

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Kursad wrote: "I have made couple tutorials covering basic points about modelling a finger and hands in general. These are the first part of the actual hand modelling tutorial which I will prepare next week . There might be some slight audio issues that I am hoping to fix next week as well :)  "

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Peoria, IL, U.S.A. – MultiAd, a central Illinois firm specializing in marketing and advertising services production, was seeking a cost-effective approach to 3-D modeling and rendering. It was determined that a hybrid approach of open-source modeling software, Blender and a popular commercial-rendering solution, V-ray is the best approach in a rough economy. As client demand continues to grow for MultiAd's 3-D production process, the company is seeking well-rounded Blender artists who are enthusiastic about an adventure into a hybrid 3-D production pipeline.

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We recently used Blender in a few commercials we did for a company out of Virginia called "Woodfin". In the commercial we made their mascot 'Watch Dog' talk. We targeted Blender as the ideal software for its ability to composite from within without having to export video or use additional software. This made the process of modeling, texturing, animating and compositing one fluid motion.

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1) 2.5 project issues

- Martin mentioned a keymap design conflict that has to be handled, and suggests a solution for how to combine 'tweaks' (drag mouse) and clicks consistantly.

- Dalai prefers to see more advanced support being added for python script dependencies, like executing a script on changing a variable in the UI. Issue is that this requires an updated dependency graph system, which is not in the first release specs yet. Ton suggests to at least put it on the 2.5 beta2 list, maybe beta1?

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Mancandy announces Durian from david bolton on Vimeo.

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As you may all remember, the newest Open Movie, Project Durian, is underway. These Open Movies are organized to improve Blender as much as possible. For Project Durian one of the goals is to make the next Blender series, Blender 2.5x, stable for production use.

It is possible for you to get your name in the end credits of the movie. How?

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A game technique has finally been successfully completed. Portals in the game engine!

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Campbell was recently interviewed about Yo Frankie! on Open Gaming Now.

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James du Gard with Critter Productions who gave us the snail animations is now taking aim at fruit. . .

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Pyppet 1.0 is nearly finished with development, I am fixing the final bugs now and adding the last few features.

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If you enjoyed Daniel's environmental commercial and were wondering about his process, he writes about it on the Brighter Planet site and offers some blend files for you to reverse engineer.

Amazing results on speed have been posted on the new smoke simulation by Daniel Genrich.

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Industry-Leading Open Format for the Exchange of 3D Assets Supporting New Compliance Opportunities; OpenCOLLADA Support for 3ds Max & Maya; Dassault Systemes Announces Broad Support for COLLADA, Integration with Google, EA, Blender & Yumetech

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Tony Mullen reports that the makers of the Hollywood Camera Work DVD series have put up a bunch of high quality green screen plates for anybody to download and work with for free.

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ALF is a grass roots conference covering Linux and the open source world. Roger Wickes, aka PapaSmurf a certified Blender trainer will be giving a presentation at ALF. Using Reference Video for Game Animation in Blender

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