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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If you’re looking for information on creating Flash content with Blender, you should check out Dennis Ippel’s weblog. He recently got published in the Flash&Flex Developer’s Magazine

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Blender was named as one of the Top 10 Animation/VFX Tools by Animation Magazine!

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Blender and Big Buck Bunny have made the 12th place of the annual CG Retrospective! Their description is touching:

Here is a wonderful example of technical and artistic selflessness that in fact built this industry. Well done guys, thank you.

A heartwarming, well-deserved praise for everyone involved! Check it out here.

Blender was featured in last week’s episode of Click – ‘the BBC’s flagship technology programme’. Kate Russel talks about Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream and how to get started with Blender.

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Issue 106 of 3D World is themed around free and open-source software. Editor Jim Thacker sent us a few opening spreads and as a bonus, he threw in the full article they published on Big Buck Bunny in issue 103. I love these guys ;-)

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An article about Big Buck Bunny was published on Linux.com, and it`s a great summary of the project. A few extra details are revealed in the article, like the overall cost of the project.

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A few days ago, Campbell Barton was interviewed by the guys of The Linux Link Tech Show, about the Big Buck Bunny project.

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I’d kind of decided to stop singing songs of praise for Elephants Dream, but this is a story I think I should share with you: Elephants Dream made it into ‘3D World’s greatest independent animated 3D shorts: 1997 to 2007′.

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Blender artist Husam has won the third place in 3DTotal’s Stylized Animal challenge “Hyena” with his hilarious picture of an hyena on a pogo-stick.

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