Dragons Tale Films has released their latest in a series of snail films, two funny animations that were rendered using GreenButton.

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Green Button has just announced their rendering services for Blender. Using the python script that they provide, you will have a rendering consul  inside Blender which you use to upload your file to their servers. They currently have access to over 2000 processors in New Zealand and an additional 1000+ in Australia and they are currently  working with some very large data center providers in the US to add more thus giving you major studio sized rendering support.

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Remember the 'Slimers' commercial by Promotion Studios? James Neale talks about the project's pipeline and Blender's role in it, how they rebuilt Blender to run on their 64 bit quad-cores machines with 8 gig ram (closed source apps, eat your heart out! ;-) and about trademarked Nickelodeon slime properties. A very cool read.

Promotion Studios have finished a new commercial which include some cool Blender fluids.

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The Blender Foundation Certified Trainer (BFCT) Program has been officially launched. The 12-member review board for the program has put a lot of effort into getting it off the ground and we're ready to see how well it will work. If you teach or train people in Blender, get your application materials together, because we're accepting applications now!

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We recently spotted a commercial on YouTube for ROC, an international producer of skin-care products. The commercial was created in Blender by Gecko Animation Limited and was aired on UK television. We contacted Jonathan Lax to learn about his studio and about how Blender fits into his workflow.

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Here's another example of Blender being used to create a clean and professional product presentation video.

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The Italian animation studio Liquid Gate has produced a short leader animation for a major Italian Newspaper. It was part of their assessment of Blender in a production environment and it looks like Blender passed the test!

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Seems like the Portuguese community keeps growing.
And with this in mind we see some cool events coming up, such as this one.

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Its been long since the first TOSMI session ended and we were so busy that we missed the final article. Now with the deadline for the second TOSMI session getting near we decided to show what happened at the end of the first session.

Here is a heads up on how everything turned out.

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Five days have already gone by and the first TOSMI is near its end. But hold on tight, although its near its end, its far from over, just read how hectic it has been for the last 3 days.

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The second day of TOSMI ended and we are really happy about how things are evolving, not only are the trainees catching up but they are also enthusiastic about it, we can surely say they are more motivated then we anticipated.

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German animation studio Die Versilberte Eitelkeit and Arroba Films S.A. de C.V. have recently finished their 8 minute short movie 'Cosmic Balance', based on Francisco Athié's short novel. Much of the work was done in Blender.

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Robert Schober (roboshobo) has done another music video using Blender. Nearly a year ago, we wrote about the ”Dear Valentine” music video he did.

This time around it’s “Machines” by the band Kiss Kiss. The music video has a nice little hunter vs. prey themed story, and the very nice rock music goes along well with its stylistic look.

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Thorsten Schlüter has prepared a number of images for a the CeBIT 2007 booth of a company named 'AVM'. CeBIT is one of the largest (if not THE largest) consumer electronics tradeshows in Europe, leading to a giant exposure.

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You may remember ResPower from a previous Blendernation article on distributed rendering. Its a service utilized by quite a few Blender artists. One you may be familiar with is Sacha Goedegebure's Man in Man. Now its great to hear that they support version 2.43.

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I have a bunch of Google Alerts that scan the web for Blender related stuff. Last week they informed me about pokedstudio, a British design studio. I really liked their work so I contacted Jon and asked him to tell us a bit about his work and how Blender fits in.

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Edouard Tisserant contacted us about a commercial presentation that he made with Blender. The animation is simple but effective; it explains the technical concepts behind a Linux based backup and restore system.

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