Award winning animator and the director of Elephants Dream, Bassam Kurdali, has begun production on his latest short 5min film entitled ‘Tube’. The project has been in pre-production for several months and is now heading into the production phase.

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The results of Campbell’s YoFrankie level design contest are now online. The first, second and third place entries are certainly very nice and worthy of their prizes.

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The Italian website Blender-Tutorial.com has organised a Blender tutorial writing contest. Prizes are a Western Digital 500GB Harddisk, a Canon A470 digital camera and a Microsoft Media Desktop keyboard+mouse. The deadline is 5 April 2009.

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Two weeks ago I attended my first Blenducation class, taught by David Hickson (Dipingo) himself. The class cost 5$ and was on particle hair (and an array of other useful tools, such as texture painting, animated particle hair with softbodies, basic UV mapping, and so forth.)

At the end of the class, Dipingo came up with an idea: “We’ll have a particle hair animation contest!” Well, he gave us two weeks to complete our entries and now the contest submissions have been sent in, so it’s your turn to vote for the winner!

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Campell Barton (Ideasman42) has started a new contest in the wake of the successful release of Yo Frankie. The aim of the contest is to develop a new level for the game, and there’s prizes up for grabs for those who do best!

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The first Blender animation challenge, held over at Blenderartists.org, has finished taking entries and is now in the voting stage of the challenge. There’s a huge amount of entries, so it will be a bit of work sorting through them to find a favorite to vote for.

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The Linux Foundation is hosting a contest to create an “I’m Linux” commercial. Grand prize: a trip to Tokyo! Deadline is March 15, 2009.

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The BLENDING LIFE challenge has ended and what a ride! There’s been some amazing entries!

The judges have given their scores which will count for fifty percent of the total score. The other fifty percent  will come from you, so they need you to please stop by the contest site and and give your vote!

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We’re getting ready for Christmas and New Year here at BlenderNation and of course, we’ll need an appropriate header graphic during that time. Would you like to see your work here for a week? The deadline for submission is Wednesday, december 24th, 6pm (GMT+1). Good luck!

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Andy Goralczyk has posted an interesting new video on his blog. The video is a timelapse of his progress entering into the Blending life contest currently being held over on Blenderartists.org, something worth checking out.

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