Sterling Roth [mexicoxican] started a challenge over at Blender Artists: what can you make with just 10 cuboid shapes? This very limiting rule is opening up a *lot* of creativity.

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Russian Animator Shiva3D posted this awesome animation. This is the kind of stuff that I imagine the Blender Institute's next project will have: SciFi, Robots, explosions, smoke, pointless impressive stuff. Love it.

Update: I thought this was made in Blender, but that was not the case. Bummer. Anyway, we can do better than that, right? ;-)

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An Italian artist known as "e.perinelli" wanted to change his workflow to using open source tools.

One day he got the chance of doing 2 simple 10 seconds TV spots for an Italian shoes company, and though it was a good idea to test this workflow on a production environment.

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"Two treasure-hunting teens sneak into an abandoned military base looking for a rumored gold cache. Once inside, they accidentally activate a top secret relic of the Cold War - a huge mobile weapons system bent on protecting the base from all intruders. Cut off from every exit, the pair must fight to survive."

Hangar No. 5 is an action-packed short film featuring Talan Torriero from Laguna Beach and Charity Shea from The Best Years. Produced by Northwestern University undergraduate students, Hangar No. 5 was shot during October 2007 around the Chicagoland area. The film will premier in June 2008.

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Martin White, whom we know from the animation 'The Goat, The Boy and The Sun', submitted an entry to the aniboom.com Radiohead contest.

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So it's time for another weekly video roundup. Sit back and enjoy!

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Last night's interview in the Dutch TV show 'De Wereld Draait Doort' with Ton and Sacha is now online!

Update: Dutch transcript is ready. If you want, you can log in and help to translate now. Thanks!!
Update 2: English translation is ready. Thanks for all the help!

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And not a moment too soon, either. Let me celebrate by posting a bunch of crazy/great/interesting animations I found on YouTube.

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If you're learning how to rig a character, take a look at OSCAR. For the faint of heart: OSCAR leaves no doubt he's a male character ;-)

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Every now and then we happen to see Blender being used in an innovative way, from Desktop Publishing to (it seems) whatever you can think of.

The artist Bert Simons, for example, uses Blender in the process of making very cool papercrafts.

After some thinking, he decided to go a step further:

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Blender user Felix is a PhD student in physics at Hamburg University, Germany. Not only did Science accept his paper (and his team's, I presume), but they also picked their illustration to feature on the cover. I don't have to tell you which software he used to create the image, do I? ;-). Having your work featured in Science is no small feat, so congratulations everyone!

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Here's one we haven't seen before: Brandon Marvenko uses Blender's game engine as a development environment for artificial neural networks.

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Blender Artist Colin Levy participates in the PSAId contest with an short video. He has also published a video explaining how he made it - focusing on the camera mapping.

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Here's a use for Blender that you haven't seen before: the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, BC, Canada, has been quietly working with Blender and the Blender Game Engine to produce scientific data visualizations on the effect of fishing policy on fish populations. In addition, they're looking for summer interns who can work with Blender.

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The new Cloth simulation system of Blender brings a lot of possibilities for animation. Did you try it already? Well, a few artists are actually playing around with it, and they are creating amazing simulations!

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A new version of the MOSAIC exporter script is coming, and to show what this new release will be able to do, a few test renders were published on the Blender Artists forums. And they are quite impressive!

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Rogério Perdiz is an animator from Portugal. After 19 months and 7 days of work on his animation 'Orion Tear', he has now published it. It's an impressive piece of work, and even more so if you realise this was all done by one man.

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Glenn Melenhorst is creative Director at Iloura (Charlotte's Web, House of Flying Daggers, The Bank Job). He has been working on an amazing little game called DukDuk!, all done in Blender. We talked to him about his project.

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