Tomas Clergiot of France created two TV commercials. He used blender for the Healts Vision Santé commercial, using Blender to model and map the bottles and kitchen. For the Miss Hawaiian Tropic 2007 (Guy's you're gonna love this one!) he modeled the girl for the opening and the environment. After effects was used for the colors and floor mapping.

We are always happy to support and encourage translations of Blenderart Magazine into other languages. So I am happy to announce that Juan C. García has written in to let us know that he has started translating BAM into Spanish. This is a huge undertaking so he would welcome help from other Spanish speakers.

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I'm really happy to let you know about a successful Blender Course which I taught to one of the biggest Advertising Agencies in the world - Leo Burnett. It lasted 5 days and was taught on-site. This was my first teaching experience, and I wish to share my experience to help other Blender Certified Trainers deliver world-class training on Blender. I want to be honest also about the pitfalls, because that's also one of the things that I really like about Blender Foundation, they never try to hide weak points, bugs, annoyances, … And I believe that's also one of the reasons why can Blender make so fast progress!

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I wanted to write a quick note to let everybody know that my advance copies of "Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D" have arrived, and I'm very excited with how they've turned out! I've taken a few snapshots and posted them here on Flickr to give people a sense of what the book looks like on the inside: Continue Reading 'Update on Bounce Tumble and Splash by Tony Mullen' »

If your in the process of learning Blender, John R. Nyquist has created a series of videos on tips in using Blender. You can check them out at YouTube.

Ton Roosendaal of the Blender Foundation has just announced that he will be attending along with Andy Goralczyk and Nathan Vegdahl, the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference.

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Just wanted to send a big hello to all you Blender Nation folks! I had the opportunity to meet Ton Roosendaal last year at Siggraph. While we were talking, I remember mentioning that with the power of open-source communities like yours, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the world was stunned by a true blockbuster film someday, created by people collaborating in their garages all over the world.

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I'm happy to announce that Eunice Park of Animation Mentor will be writing for BlenderNation about the industry and as a liaison to AnimationMentor.com. She will be giving us first hand information such as news letters , tips and tricks from Shawn Kelly and others at Animation Mentor.

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This animation by Jorge Rausch is short, at only 33 seconds long but a very funny gag. Also check out his Negrito Returns. I don't know what he's saying, but it's commical just the same. Jorge shows that he has a good sense of timing and well placed arc movements in the animation.

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Apollos has two well written tutorials for using nodes on his site. You can check them out at at BlenderUnderground

Gaute Neslein Korsnes wrote to tell us about a Norwegian blender community site. Blender3d.no.

It's certainly fun to see all these Blender sites popping up around the world.

I was just looking at the site stats, BlenderNation is viewed in 215 countries and territories.

macouno is running an informal contest. Something that's just for fun, and the rules are loose.

"This week I received something rather nice in the mail. An absolutely gorgeous prototyped print of the original Petunia model from the guys at www.shapeways.com and I can't stop looking at it. It's rather nice to have a figure you can actually hold. But I decided I'll give it away!"

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This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to final render - and beyond. The result of the tutorials is an epic 90 second trailer.

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News release from Oscar Alvarado of Mexico:

"This is an animated short film inspired by Mexican folklore and people's cult to death. "Llorona" is a typical folklore song that speaks about a pretty woman. In the plot of this film "Llorona" is called "La Viuda" and the story tells how this character went crazy abut the death of her man called "El Catrin".

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As I had said in a previous article, you can animate all you want, but if you don't have a good story to tell, you can have the best animaton in the world and hardly anyone will care. I came upon this animation on Vimeo the other day and it gave me a good laugh.

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Just a quick note on the release of a new Blender book about architectural visualization from one of our editor's, Allan Brito. The book is called "Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery".

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Here are some amazing architectural walk throughs by Yorik and Maria from Brazil.

"This is a big work Maíra and me just finished… It is a series of 7 walkthrough animations for shopping mall is in Brazil. We made the whole job in about 1 month and a half, mainly because many things are repetitive and
could be copied from one to the next one, but also because we used Respower for rendering, and we were able to optimize much each animations so rendering was blazing fast.

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It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 17 of Blenderart Magazine.
In this issue we are focusing on the ‘Lights! Camera! Action!’.

We are looking for tutorials, “making of” articles, and projects of interest that focus on either special techniques or tools that are used in the finals stages of a project.

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