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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Sebastian Korczak likes to hook up gear to Blender. Check out his latest experiment: Blender Live Shape – a real-time displacement modifier (similar to normal map) based on live grayscale video from webcam. Read on for more of his work.

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Blender Sightings

Here we go again! :) Keep 'em coming! But be sure to check our previous Sightings for duplicates.

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Yunow's sister, Maru, made him an awesome birthday cake for his 32nd birthday. Read on to see it!

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Sandra Gilbert writes: As excitement builds around the launch of the Durian Project, we decided to share in some of the fun and devote an issue to Epic Fantasy. This issue is filled with articles that are guaranteed to inspire you to start a few epics of your own. And speaking of the Durian Project, the team members have all arrived and are already starting to get things organized for their Epic Fantasy. Preliminary Blender Development Projects have already been established and discussions are already underway for developing the visual style of the movie.

So grab your copy today.

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More Blender sightings and a vanity BlenderNation sighting!

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Another issue of BlenderArt Magazine has been translated into Spanish.

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A game technique has finally been successfully completed. Portals in the game engine!

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Campbell was recently interviewed about Yo Frankie! on Open Gaming Now.

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Despite just having become a father last week, JesterKing has already picked up coding again and has hacked together a real-time (well, updated every 5 minutes) graph of the Durian sales. The height of the graph represents 2000. Each dark gray horizontal line represents 500, where the lighter gray are 250. More info on his blog. Haven't ordered yet? Here's your chance!