Ian Elsner is sharing some of his thoughts on modeling and animating while working on his movie, 'Eros', in a series of video monologues. Interestingly enough, he recorded three episodes while on holiday in Greece and China.

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Tony Mullen and Roland Hess were invited to the Wiley & Sons Author Dinner at SIGGRAPH.

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While we were teaching at Red Hat High, Sam Brubaker (Rocketman) decided that he was going to release the .blend file to his animation, Infinitum, under a Creative Commons license. Infinitum won the 2006 Suzanne Award for "Best Animation, original idea, or story". He has chosen the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommericial license 3.0.

Get the Infinitum .blend file (right-click and Save As). Have fun!

Last week, the second Red Hat High technology camp ended. You may recall that we reported around this time last year about 3 members of the Blender community traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina to teach at the first ever Red Hat High technology camp. This year, we had 4 Blender instructors from the community, and based on the incredible work produced by students last year, we had a better idea of what to expect. We decided to put greater emphasis on animation this year and the students rose to the challenge, blowing all of us away.

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What do you think about getting lunch with Tony Mullen, the author of Introducing Character Animation with Blender? Well, a Blender user called Mike Smick just did! And he wrote an article about the experience for his Blog. He wrote about his impressions on Mr. Mullen and his job teaching Blender in Tsuda University.

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The Sixth Blender Conference will be held in the new Amsterdam venue De Zwijger, which will offer us more space and very cool facilities, including a large theater. During the dinner and party of Saturday we will also celebrate that exactly 5 years ago Blender became Open Source. Dates: fri-sat-sun, 12-14 October.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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On Thursday, may 24th, Dolf Veenvliet, Sacha Goedegebure and Ton Roosendaal will be speaking at the Blender Event 2007, at the Selexyz bookstore in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Last Sunday, Blender developer Nathan Letwory [JesterKing] has become the proud father of a son, Rasmus. He was born on 15:55 in Turku, Finland, weighed 3680g and was 51cm long. Both mother and Rasmus are doing great; Nathan is already growing extra muscles from carrying and comforting the baby.

Welcome, Rasmus! Please *do* leave your father a little time to finish the pyNodes :)

Google has spoken - five students working on Blender projects will be sponsored this summer. The winning projects are all great upgrades for Blender. Read on for more details.

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Well-known animator Daniel Martinez Lara from Pepeland.com has started experimenting with Blender, and he has already posted a way cool video-tutorial on using normal nodes in the compositor to achieve real-time lighting (the tutorial is meant to play without sound, in case you're wondering).

We were all excited to be contacted by Daniel and he was kind enough to answer a few of our burning questions about his work and how it involves Blender.

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My name is Bassam Kurdali. You may know me as the director of "Elephants Dream". I am a blender user for many years- since the 2.2x versions of the software, a bit before the Open Source Era.

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Bassam Kurdali and Andy Goralczyk were invited to speak at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy last January. It looks like they had a blast - here is their report.

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Matt Ebb organised a Blender demo at the Australian Linux.conf.au last week. Today, he reports on the event.

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Last month we mentioned that issue 68 of LinuxUser & Developer magazine featured an interview with Blender's lead developer Ton Roosendaal. Editor Daniel James then promised us we could publish the interview text later on and he kept his word: here's the full interview! Thanks, Daniel!

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This month's edition of the British Linux User & Developer Magazine features a six-page interview with Ton Roosendaal.

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Timothy Kanters, one of the founders of Elysiun/BlenderArtists, has decided to stop managing his website.

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During Siggraph 2006 I met Jason van Gumster; many people know him as Groo or Fweeb (on forums ), who demostrated the fluid simulation capabilities of Blender. He runs a small animation and print design company (Hand Turkey Studios) in Richmond, Virginia and they use Blender for nearly all of their animation needs.

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Ton Roosendaal will be giving a presentation called 'Open Source Blender' during the 'Focus on Themes and Future Vision' session at the Dutch Game Days 2006 in Utrecht on november 23rd 2006.

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