Ready for eternal fame? Submit your work for the Blender Conference 2009 Festival & Suzanne awards!

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A new issue of the Russian Blender-Empire magazine has been released.

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Luca Pinciani wrote: The latest issue of Blender Magazine Italia has been released! The sixth issue of the italian magazine about Blender can be downloaded from the official website. As in every issue, also in this one, there are a lot of interesting articles and tutorials!

The local Blender community is holding a 3D animation contest to spice up the Anime Nebraskon conference. Have fun!

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I think Kingsport in North East Tennessee is seeing more Blender action than me! Byron Kindig announces a new training and the next Blender Users Group meeting.

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I was contacted by HizaRo, who has created a nice site for the Indonesian Blender community. It has news, tutorials and a gallery. When I read the pages my brain feels like it's in a knot, with texts such as 'Tujuan dari kompetisi ini adalah menjaga semangat bersaing dan kreatifitas antar anggota' ;-) Still, great job – I hope the Indonesian Blender community will benefit from this!

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The Blender World Cup 2009 design contest has begun. This year's competition ends on the 1st Nov at 00:00 GMT.

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The New York City Blender User's Group is holding a meeting at NYU Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 2 pm in Roger's Hall. (Just go there and look for the signs for which room)

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I'm pleased to announce that 'Havoc', the live action/3D movie created by teenage filmmakers from New Zealand, has won the overall competition and also got the prize for best special effects.

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British Blender artist Sumit Sarkar has published a timelapse video of the creation of Ganesh, a Hindu deiti. He also created twelve extensive video tutorials on character creation. You may remember Sumit from his live 'Blender, HipHop and Curry' performance earlier this year.

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Sandra Gilbert writes: As excitement builds around the launch of the Durian Project, we decided to share in some of the fun and devote an issue to Epic Fantasy. This issue is filled with articles that are guaranteed to inspire you to start a few epics of your own. And speaking of the Durian Project, the team members have all arrived and are already starting to get things organized for their Epic Fantasy. Preliminary Blender Development Projects have already been established and discussions are already underway for developing the visual style of the movie.

So grab your copy today.

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Another issue of BlenderArt Magazine has been translated into Spanish.

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Jonathan Williamson will be giving a free Blender demonstration in Kansas City on September 2nd.

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Blenderguide.org is a link directory for all kinds of things related to Blender like tutorials, art and people. It's clean, fast and contains a lot of interesting stuff.

PS: If I'm allowed to make a plug here, BN Links – our own link directory – is still gathering momentum. Check it out!

Blender developer Nathan Letwory [JesterKing] became a father for the second time earlier today when his daughter Rafaëlla was born at 14:42 in Finland. Rafaëlla weighs 2820g and is 50,5cm tall. Both she and her mother are doing great.

We're happy to report that Rafaëlla looks significantly less grumpy than her big brother Rasmus [JesterPrince], who is reported to have developed a passion for human beat-boxing and (duh) Blender!

Ton Roosendaal writes:

Brad Peebler, President of Luxology, invited me to have a meeting at Siggraph to start a friendly relation and check on ways how we can make Modo and Blender work together smoothly for our users.

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Here's another mini-report and some photographs by Ton. He writes:

This is just 5 minutes of the Blender booth in action, lots of attention, people having fun, and Bassam editing his last changes for the Tube trailer he likes to show!

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Julius Tuomisto and Nathan Letwory will be at ASSEMBLY 2009 in Helsinky this Saturday to talk about their distributed rendering project with Blender.

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