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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The Mac Gamer just published a long interview with Chris Plush and Campbell Barton, "two long haired, clever fellows working on the development of the open source game Yo! Frankie". An interesting read with lots of background information on the project!

Article submitted by mangojambo. Cicero Moraes, aka Cogitas3D, is an amazing blender professional, working with Blender since 2005, making architectural visualization, animation and spots for TV. He is always participating in the Brazilian community, helping people at the forums, doing speeches for poor people at the public schools in Brazil. Now he did a free Portuguese Blender E-Book and his texts is really easy to understand.

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Community member Farsthary from Cuba (famous for his volumetrics and smoke work) found his home wrecked after the hurricane Gustav passed. He and his family are fine, but they're out of electricity and they have a lot of reconstruction work to do. You can support him by sending a donation. Bank account details are on his blog.

Update: I just tried to send some money, only to find out that Cuba is currently under embargo - you cannot send money there, at least from the Netherlands. The bank couldn't tell me if this affects other countries as well :-/

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Mike Pan has published a nice series of photos of the Blender workshop in Vancouver, BC, last Sunday. From the looks of it, everyone had a great time!

Mike writes:

We finally pulled it off! (Okay, maybe not spetacularly) The first ever Blender get-together in Vancouver, Canada was a lot of fun.  The turn out was better than I had hoped, and majority of the people attending are very competent at Blender.