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blenderart_logo"From out of the Deep…" conjures up images of all types of sea creatures, from the simple to the beautifully exotic. Dancing beams of light bouncing off of underwater life and hypnotic light patterns shimmering on the sea floor.

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bmesh-subsurf-ngonBMesh is now in the Alpha testing stage. It’s reached the point where it needs user testing to further progress and identify bugs.
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enlightenedNodes"Kroni has been working on some lighting tutorials and has published two. The lighting setup is done with blender's internal render engine."

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Commercial ID's

Screen Shot007Here's a bunch of ID's we made at Astral Media, a big television company in Canada, for Vrak.TV, a very popular channel for teenagers here in Quebec. We modeled, animated, and textured all the paper, frame by frame, using Blender.

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Bearubs Video

Bearubs 1Created by David Lindsley "Christmas is Coming"  is in the style of those 60's stop-animation classics Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. The song was written by David with help on the arrangement from his neighbor and neighborhood kids on the vocals.

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Mite!

Mite 1Hello! Last year I made Da New Guys: For The Winnings, and now I've finished Mite! – a short sci-fi comedy about an alien invasion gone wrong.

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Development UpdatePrevious week report, from Blender Conference meeting

- Blender 2.5 "beta 0" naming still has some pro/contra discussions… in some aspects it's more like an alpha. Everyone agrees it has to be communicated as a test build when released

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Happy Halloween!

timthumb.php.pngGet in the mood for Halloween with these video tutorials by Jonathan Williamson:

unityUntil a few days ago the well established game engine 'Unity' had a $200 indie version for purchase, which has now been dropped in favor of a free version. Great news for indie game developers and Blender users as Unity has a strong degree of Blender support built in.

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GraphicAll.org troubles

hacker-kittehGraphicAll it experiencing some troubles due to hackers, it seems. Admin ZanQdo is working on it – if you see weight pills ads instead of Blender builds, use this direct link for now.

blender-coverA subsidiary of the Thai government has released two *very* extensive ebooks on Blender and the GIMP.

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CG Cookie launches Blender Cookie

blender-cookie-logoVideotutorial provider CG Cookie have spun off a Blender-only service earlier this week: Blender Cookie. I talked to Wes Burke about this project.

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Trickle Project

Trickle Project"Trickle Project" is a project created by Spark D.E., an Italian company that takes care about open source software philosophy and its spreading. Francesco Paglia and Lorenzo Pierfederici, the two guys who launched Trickle Project, have been invited to participate at Blender Conference 2009 to show what Trickle Project is and the philosophy that stands inside it.

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icon_mediumHi I've spent the past few months working with RPN interactive on an iPhone game, using Blender heavily in our pipeline for 3D assets and animations. All the 3D assets for the game and many animations for 2D elements were done with Blender, and other open source software (GIMP and Inkscape) were used for the 2D assets. You can take a look at my blog post on using blender to make the game.  – Ben Simonds

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Blender Tattoos

blendernation_shoulderPaul Fitzpatrick uses Blender template files to generate interactive Flash content for websites. His latest experiment is a tattoo previewer.

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junabetasmall"I'm releasing a high poly model of a stylized girl (Juna) under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license for educational purposes."

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BlenderArt Magazine #5 in Spanish

blendermag5BlenderArt Magazine #5 is now available in Spanish.

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Barrel

philipBarrel by Philip Aigner (phlopper).

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