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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As you may know, nothing escapes our attention (you there! stop picking your nose, it's disgusting!), and here's my latest catch: over the last few weeks I've been tracking a Korean site which diligently translates all our articles.

So, here you go: suddenly YOU're on BlenderNation, too! You're doing a great job - thanks. It would be great if you could introduce yourself in a comment below.

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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The second edition of the German Blender magazine 'Blenderzin' has been published.

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The projects that will participate on the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been announced, and again Blender was awarded with 6 projects!

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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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Yeah, not many people can say that ;-) Congratulations to the entire team for keeping this website running for almost two and a half years already!

On a side-note, last month we *almost* broke the 1,000,000 pageviews barrier for the first time, and I just noticed we broke the 4,500 RSS subscribers barrier today. We're doing great!

Having said that, the amount of Blender news just keeps increasing and posting only two articles a day just isn't enough to keep up anymore. We need help!

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Blenderart Magazine is preparing for their 16th issue and they are looking for content. Sandra Gilbert sent in the following call for content:

It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 16 of Blenderart Magazine. In this issue we are focusing on the ‘WOW! factor’.

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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:

Continue Reading 'Cloning yourself with Blender' »

Martin Pyka was at the Big Buck Bunny Premiere this week and he made a great video report in which he gives a good impression of the event and interviews Nathan, William, Nathan and Ton. . You'll also find some photo's on his site.

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Eric Bilodeau, a producer/director from Canada and his team, have just finished the Sci-Fi / Horror feature film, Hunting Ground, in which they used Blender, as the software for all thier 3D effects.

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Here's some link-love to the Blender community in Iran. They offer two versions: one in Arabic  Persian and one in English (which has different content). Good job, guys!

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Wanna learn two very cool things with two short video tutorials?

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If you are a CG professional looking for a job, it is not that usual to see Blender in the requirements list. But maybe things are going to change…

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Rule #1: Don't talk about The Brecht van Lommel Fan Club. Eh.. wait a moment..

Matt Ebb, one of the lead artists on the Elephants Dream project, has been busy creating commercial illustrations using Blender.

Continue Reading 'Cheesasaurus Rex (commercial illustration) for Kraft' »

Hazrul Tajuddin reports on three Blender presentations that were given in Malaysia at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan.

Continue Reading 'Three Blender Presentations in Malaysia - Report' »

Peach have just announced the premiere of Big Buck Bunny: Thursday the 10th of April in Studio/K in Amsterdam. It looks like it's gonna be a fantasic evening - not only will you get to see BBB on the big screen, there will also a party with DJ afterwards, all sponsored by Creative Commons Netherlands!

The evening (screening+party) is free to attend for everyone; if you want the VIP treatment (first screening, champagne, a meal and hugs from the entire team or, well, at least from Nathan) you can get a VIP ticket from the Blender e-shop for €30.

Other cool news is that with the help of Filmmore, BBB will be transfered to three copies of 35mm film including digital audio.

Read the full announcement on the Peach Blog.