It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 18 of Blenderart Magazine.

In this issue we are focusing on the ‘Landscapes, Environments and Sets!'.

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It's SIGGRAPH week (10-15 august)!
We've managed to get BBB screenings + peach team presentations in the theatres of three exciting Hollywood studios:

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Birds of a Feather events are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees. They must be free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, open to all SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees, and non-commercial in nature (topics specific to one commercial product or company are discouraged).

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"I've been making this animation during the past 7 months in between my studies and work, and I seized the opportunity to use the animation for a short film competition in the Assembly 2008 demo party Assembly.org, held in Helsinki Finland every year.

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JiriH is working on his "proof of concept" on how to make IK spine in Blender.

"This could also work quite well for tentacles, tails or even elephant trunks
:-) As in other cases of "little bit advanced" rigging in Blender good old
lattices do the trick."

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James duGard of Dragons Tale Films series of "virals" videos using Blender to promote  the "Go Elephants" artist series.

"We have 52 elephants, some vandals started kicking them in. I was asked to viral together to promote the elephants."

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For the last seven months I've been freelancing for a startup called Shapeways. Our mission is simple: we will make 3D printing (or 'rapid prototyping') accessible for everyone. Just upload your model as STL, Collada or X3D and we can produce it for you in a number of different materials.

Three of us have a history with Blender and used to work for Not a Number, so there's a lot of Blender work going on here in the office. It's a tough job ;-)

We're still in private beta, but I'll be giving away 500 invitations (more about that below).

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The Virtual Museum of Computers in Ciudad Real, Spain, offers a walk through the history of computers. Next to their display of a cool array of old computers, they have also created a virtual walkthrough, using Blender in the process. And guess what: they're offering .blend files of all their models under a Creative Commons license. I talked to the technical director of the project, Carlos González Morcillo, who explained how they used Blender.

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The second edition of the 'Blender Magazine Italia' has been released. In this issue they cover rendering with Indigo, designing for rapid prototyping, using Blender alongside with Autocad and more. Enjoy!

"This issue we take a look at using Blenders post processing tools as well as explore some tips and tricks to make your lighting more impressive. And as a special treat we hear from not one, but two Blender authors as they talk about their new books."

So grab your copy today.

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This is a neat little demonstration of IPO drivers used to control textures. The demonstration uses the Mancandy model and rig. Video after the cut or you can find the video on vimeo.

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Occasionally we get word that Suzanne has popped up in some unexpected place. Which we love to see of course! Spread the Blender monkey love! Maxwell Renderer has released a new version and on page 3 in the pdf flyer whose wide-eyed and grinning face do we see? Suzanne of course!

View the pdf here and Suzanne in all her subdivided glory.

Some might have heard lately that fluid simulations in Blender are getting a new major feature - Fluid Control (also known as 'Magic fluid control'). Nils Thuerey developed the code and Daniel Genrich (Genscher) works on the integration and small fixes/enhancements.

Theres been some good progress lately and the first build is now up on graphicall.org for bug testing.

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On July 26, the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group will be showing both Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny at the Creative Treehouse in Pittsburgh, which will be followed by a 45-minute presentation/demo/talk and Q & A about Blender by Roland Hess (harkyman).

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Bruno Postle tells us that "we recently built this monumental sculpture for Land Rover at the Goodwood Festival of Speed."

The 3D design was done entirely with Blender, the final geometry was extracted from the blender model with some custom perl scripting.

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Kristian Skeie (aka Elk) has just premiered a music video made using Blender for its 3D visuals. The song is Take Off by Christian Welde, from his album 'Fairytales'.

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Lucas Martell has been working for a long time now on a 6 minute short called Pigeon: Impossible. Hes recently been posting a video blog which gives and interesting and humorous insight into the making of the animation.

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This is a fun little animation of a Troll and a cube created in Blender. Video embedded after the cut. Or view it directly on Vimeo here.

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