Can you code 24 hours non-stop? Hackontest is a new Google-sponsored 24-hour programming competition between different open source projects. Its goals are to enhance Free Software projects according to user needs and to make visible how enthusiastically open source software is being developed.

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Recently reported, the Powua renderfarm is offering rendering time on their servers as prizes for their animation contest.

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Here's an opportunity to win up to one full week of free rendering on the Powua renderfarm!

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The Blender Material Repository has its one-year anniversary coming up and they plan to celebrate it with a contest!

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The granddaddy of all Blender contests, the Blender F1 Challenge, has entered its eighth round! If this is the first time you hear about it: this contest uses the term 'F1' very loosely: the ONLY design criterium required is that all entries must make use of an open-cockpit configuration common to contemporary Formula One cars. So far, the results have always been both surprising and inspiring.

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All the 2007 Suzanne Awards Nominations videos are now available for download from blender.org. Enjoy!

We regularly invite Blender artists to design a header graphic for us so that we can have a new look every month or so. I thought it would be nice to change the rules a little and run a 'BlenderNation Header Contest'.

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The Suzanne Awards team is working on a series of short videos that will announce the video clips and they need your help. Download the rigged robot character and submit your animation before Monday, October 1st.

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NASA has started an intriguing contest which should be of interest to some of you. The contest encourages art & design students to work with engineering students to depict a scene of "life and work on the Moon." Most of you have wide-ranging interests of course, so chances are that a few of you are well-qualified to try this out.

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We're quite late to report this, but there's still time to submit your work for the Blender Conference 2007 Animation Festival and Suzanne Awards.

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With the end of SIGGRAPH 2007, a lot of cool stuff related to the conference and contests are showing up in the web. A video about FJORG! was released last week, showing that some team was using Blender during the competition! Yes, besides all the resources available like Maya, 3ds max and XSI, it`s really good to see a team using Blender.

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While still a child in the Blender Universe of Forums, Blender-PT has already grown enough to sport his own contest.

You read right… but keep reading, cause there are prizes involved too.

UPDATE: Sybex decided to sponsor us and Tony Mullen has accepted to sign the book and send it directly to the winner.

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A few weeks ago the CG Arena has announced the winners from their challenge, and the big winner was Maciej Kotlinski, from Poland. The deal is that Maciej, used Blender and Gimp only to create his winner image called “Child`s Nightmare”.

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The Ukrainian Blender community organizes a 3D modeling competition every other day. It looks like fun, even though I'm not entirely sure what those pages say ;-) Thankfully, they're offering help for people who don't speak Russian.

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There is a new Splash Screen contest for Blender 2.45 at the Blenderartists foruns. This new release of Blender won’t have any new features or tools, just some bug fixes.

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Need something to do today? How about animate!?
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Last week the CG Society has released their XXI CG Challenge, with a lot of interesting prizes. The subject for this contest is “Strange Behavior”. This is an unusual theme, and will result in a lot of funny images and animations.

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The Blender World Cup topic is out. So all those who have signed up, get your pens out and start sketching your ideas. The competition will be fierce this year.

For anyone who hasn't signed up, there will be a prize for the 'Best of the Rest' so feel free to join in and hone your skills.

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