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

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

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"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 is now available in Spanish.

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Barrel by Philip Aigner (phlopper).

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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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