Ton happily reports the Durian team fully uses 2.5 trunk now! It goes sometimes with pains… but reports have been greatly tackled by Campbell and Brecht

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Eich News Online has released the result of their first international contest.  This release includes works completed in various CG software programs  of which two where done in Blender (plus other software) and involved artists from thirteen countries . This is a free download at 107 Megs and consists of thirty works in the Adobe PDF format. It is  full of stunning pictures, wire frames and texture breakdowns that you can study in addition to being nice artwork to have in your library.

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ekakiya  wrote: I recently made short PV animation for the Japanese song "sakura".  It's done with a combination of 2D and 3D.

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Chile: We're making a parallel Blender Conference here in Chile the 23rd of October. It is a one day conference and is part of a bigger event called Encuentro Linux, so we're actually making a pretty big event. The Blender Conference is one of the activities of five, from the Universities organizing the event for the 23rd.

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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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Mancandy announces Durian from david bolton on Vimeo.

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Blender makes its appearance in a commercial for Randstad, a huge international employment services company.

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As one of the few 3D applications, you can run Blender on a webserver to do cool things. Here's a good example: ChartFlight.

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Here's a nice little room escape game: 'Escape from Blender Art Gallery'. And a walk-through, just in case :)

Here's a nice and embarrassing story: German hacker Ray, who is well known for opening handcuffs, has photographed the official handcuff key of the Dutch police, modelled it in Blender and printed it on a Reprap 3D printer. And guess what? It works!

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A new issue of the Russian Blender-Empire magazine has been released.

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Freezing Moon is a team of open source game enthusiasts, working hard to make two brilliant, open games!
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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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