Campell Barton (Ideasman42) has started a new contest in the wake of the successful release of Yo Frankie. The aim of the contest is to develop a new level for the game, and there's prizes up for grabs for those who do best!

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The first Blender animation challenge, held over at Blenderartists.org, has finished taking entries and is now in the voting stage of the challenge. There's a huge amount of entries, so it will be a bit of work sorting through them to find a favorite to vote for.

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The Linux Foundation is hosting a contest to create an "I'm Linux" commercial. Grand prize: a trip to Tokyo! Deadline is March 15, 2009.

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The BLENDING LIFE challenge has ended and what a ride! There's been some amazing entries!

The judges have given their scores which will count for fifty percent of the total score. The other fifty percent  will come from you, so they need you to please stop by the contest site and and give your vote!

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We're getting ready for Christmas and New Year here at BlenderNation and of course, we'll need an appropriate header graphic during that time. Would you like to see your work here for a week? The deadline for submission is Wednesday, december 24th, 6pm (GMT+1). Good luck!

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Andy Goralczyk has posted an interesting new video on his blog. The video is a timelapse of his progress entering into the Blending life contest currently being held over on Blenderartists.org, something worth checking out.

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Article submitted by Joel Davies. After a decline in entries, there has been much discussion on the BlenderArtists forums on how to improve the Animation Challenges to encourage more people to participate. Finally we can see the results of those discussions in the first improved Blender Animation Challenge.

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CGChallenge have announced their 23rd challenge, themed 'Steampunk Myths and Legends'.

Steampunk is the application of advanced steam age technology to a modern or science fiction setting.

This challenge asks you to render traditional myths and legends in the steampunk style using elements of gears, springs, brass and steam power. Re-imagine legendary characters from some of the world's most ancient stories, such as a steam-powered minotaur, or a Zeppelin-mounted Thor, hurling lightning bolts from the sky.

I could think of a few Blender artists that should enter straight away ;-) Go on then, make us proud!

Mal from CanDo Interactive is hosting a Blender game engine contest. The deadline is March 16th, and there's a nice lineup of prizes.

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The British band 'Hiding in Public' is inviting animators to create a music video for two of their new songs. The first prize is $1000 $2000, submission deadline is november 30th december 31st (prize and deadline updated after the band read some of the comments below – thanks guys!).

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Blendenzo teamed up with Clean3D to develop a short game for the Christian Developers Network Speedgame Contest of 2008. Its not very often that we get to see a neatly finished game in the BGE, so its one which is worth checking out.

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"Help the Boros reclaim their precious artefact and solve the mystery of the Starlight Isles. You will face unique and challenging puzzles that will require all your logic and reasoning skills; often there is not just one solution to the problem you face."

Here's the introduction of one of the most original Blender games I've seen so far. It was created by a team of only five people during the high-profile British 'Dare to be Digital' contest.

We talked to Graham Ranson to find out how he and his team used Blender.

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"Video game enthusiasts from the Midlands have taken part in a project to create their own video game from scratch in Birmingham."

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For the last seven months I've been freelancing for a startup called Shapeways. Our mission is simple: we will make 3D printing (or 'rapid prototyping') accessible for everyone. Just upload your model as STL, Collada or X3D and we can produce it for you in a number of different materials.

Three of us have a history with Blender and used to work for Not a Number, so there's a lot of Blender work going on here in the office. It's a tough job ;-)

We're still in private beta, but I'll be giving away 500 invitations (more about that below).

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Just like the earth spins around the sun, the Blender World Cup comes around once each year. And just like Global Warming, each year the competition is fiercer than ever.

This year the topic is wide open, and the freedom belongs to you the artists…. There is just one catch.

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Frank, a main character in the upcoming Apricot game, has been finalized. He's rigged, textured and ready for some much needed animations. So the Apricot team have released him to the community and are looking to see what crazy animations everyone can come up with.

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The second YafRay annual contest has started! If you use Blender 3d and YafRay, this is a great opportunity to put creativity creative energy into an interest project.

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Sterling Roth [mexicoxican] started a challenge over at Blender Artists: what can you make with just 10 cuboid shapes? This very limiting rule is opening up a *lot* of creativity.

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