Our friends at Animation Mentor are hosting two events in November with acclaimed Disney animator Eric Goldberg.

Eric Goldberg and Animation Mentor CEO and cofounder Bobby Beck will discussing Goldberg’s book Character Animation Crash Course! at a free webinar on Nov. 17, 2009. With Hollywood credits ranging from Looney Tunes, Fantasia/2000, Aladdin, Pocahontas and Walt Disney Animation Studio's upcoming 2D feature The Princess and the Frog, Goldberg will offer insight into how to bring animated characters to life.

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This article on digitalcontentproducer.com gives an interesting insight into the special effects in '2012'. A *huge* surprise: they built part of their simulation software around Bullet – the open source physics simulation engine that's also part of Blender.

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The Unreal 3 Engine is now available for free, non-commercial use!  Check it out here.

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Oscar Alvarado has started a new project created by students of UNIVA University, called "STEAM TALES: Mr. Gear´s Chronicles".  It's looking pretty cool!

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BlenderArtists user samuraidanieru (Daniel Petersen) has released a new version of the batch renderer, Loki Render Farm 0.6!

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Ramen, an impressive standalone node compositer by Esteban Tovagliari is now available for testing!  This new open-source project looks very promising!  Check it out!

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Andy's website

OMEGA STOP MOTION PROJECT – TEASER TRAILER from Andy Goralczyk on Vimeo.

Andy's training DVD "Creature Factory"

"I just completed an animation of a bumblebee for a microgranting project. I'd love to share it with the blendernation community, and if there is interest I'd  love to share the rigs and write up a tutorial of some aspect of the production."

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1) Current projects

- GE logic editor design proposal was reviewed good so far, Benoit now checks on implementation side of design.

- the iTaSC project now has a final end-user design details wiki page.

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"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 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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"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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Here'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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Created 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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Hello! 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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Previous 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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Get in the mood for Halloween with these video tutorials by Jonathan Williamson:

• Model a pumpkin – day 1, day 2.
• Creating a Witches Hat
• Creating a Jack-O-Lantern

Until 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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