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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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!

BlenderGuru.com writes:

Well known around the Blender community for his abstract and unique looking work, Robert Tiess is a talented artist that continues to produce amazing work at an alarming rate. His work is an explosion of colors and emotion that is not only visually appealing, but also tells a story. Robert gives us tips on the insight and thoughts that goes into creating his stunning renders.

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• Interview with Robert Tiess

Ton Roosendaal received an honorary doctorate in technology at the Leeds Metropolitan University yesterday. Here's a short first interview with him.

A 42 minute interview with Thomas Hintz [Tony Grappa] about Blender. German only.

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Here's Martin 'theeth' Poirier's presentation on Blender 2.5 development during the Libre Graphics Meeting 2009. 35 minute video, well worth watching. Enjoy!

Looking for a summer internship in computer grapics? Bassam Kurdali (member of the Elephants Dream team) and Bit Films are looking for students in the Western Massachusetts area this summer.

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CG Cookie has published an interview that gives some great info on the background of Jonathan Williamson.

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Blender is represented at the CeBIT 2009 this year and we just received a photograph of our team there. CeBIT is open until Sunday March 8th, so if you live in the area go say 'hi' :) Good job guys!

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Dropping by BlenderArtists, I noticed some of the featured artwork and decided to check it out.  Here are three works by Marcin Wodzynski (Marcin.)  I also did an interview with him.  Thanks, Marcin!

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Linux Outlaws did a recent Podcast interview with Campbell Barton about Apricot and Yo Frankie. The interview with Campbell starts at 35:50.

Guess what?  Another great artist is using Blender in his workflow!  His name is Heiko Klug (Jesar,) and PSDTUTS recently did an interview with him.  Heiko Klug is simply inspirational!

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'Art of Community' is a new book currently being written by Jono Bacon. Its a book detailing the many areas of  communities which follow 'Every software project, online site, or company' and how to build a strong community. The book is relevant to Blender as Ton Roosendaal has recently contributed some interview content.

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Tony Mullen has posted a set of pictures from his latest workshop in Tokyo.

Remember the Blender Conference in Kingsport last August? It took the organization a massive amount of work, but they have now published 11 videos of the sessions – over 7 hours of material in total!

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From Francisco M. Gómez-Campos, from University of Granada, in Spain.

"The purpose of this message is simply to let the Blender community know about a project we are developing at my University. We recently uploaded a video in YouTube developed using free software (Blender and Gimp) to be used as a help for the teaching of some concepts to students of Physics and Electronic Engineering.

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