A group of Russian Blender enthusiasts have picked up the task of translating 'Essential Blender' into Russian. As the content of the book has been released under a Creative Commons license, I'm actually surprised that we don't see more initiatives like this!

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Brandon Phoenix - aka Dim on Blenderartists.org has completed a huge document detailing the many aspects of Video Games. The document is a great reference and learning tool for anyone interested in the field of game development, no matter what level of experience.

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From Montage Studio this new DVD (currently only available in download form) is set to be part of a series of exercises that will walk newer users through modeling, texturing and animating in Blender.

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Well if you've been around Blender for a long time, you may recall "The Official Blender 2.0 book put together by Ton and Carsten Wartmann several years back. I know that I wore out that book, and I still have it. Now Carsten has announced that the first copy of his new Blender DVD Tutorial has arrived. Hopefully there will be an English version in the future.

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Endi2 has made a great trio of timelapses demonstrating sculpting a head, retopologizing the resulting mesh and the mesh with a normal map applied in a GLSL enabled 3D view. I found the head sculpting video particularly good. Really they were all great to watch. Find the videos here.

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I wanted to write a quick note to let everybody know that my advance copies of "Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D" have arrived, and I'm very excited with how they've turned out! I've taken a few snapshots and posted them here on Flickr to give people a sense of what the book looks like on the inside: Continue Reading 'Update on Bounce Tumble and Splash by Tony Mullen' »

This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to final render - and beyond. The result of the tutorials is an epic 90 second trailer.

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Just a quick note on the release of a new Blender book about architectural visualization from one of our editor's, Allan Brito. The book is called "Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery".

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A new book about Blender has been released in Brazil. The book "Modelando personagens com Blender 3D", which could be translated to: Character Modeling with Blender 3D.

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Every month for the last few years, the great Shawn Kelly (senior animator at ILM and co-founder of Animation Mentor) has been sharing his knowledge with cool articles called just "Tips & Tricks".

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That's right! Tony Mullen's 'Introducing Character Animation with Blender' has been translated to Japanese.

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CG Channel have published part of their training DVD 'CG Pack Part 1': Female Walk Cycle.

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A while ago I had the chance of getting my hands on the ManCandy FAQ DVD, made by Bassam Kurdali. This is the first title of the "Open Movie Workshop" series, produced by Blender Foundation.

After watching about 7 hours of videos I have to say: this is a must have if you are serious about making rigging and animating with Blender.

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Towards the middle of last year I was contracted by Natcoll (An educational publisher) to write a book that introduces school students to Blender. After much hard work the book is now printed and is being sold to schools around the world.

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Created in 1947, "Advanced Animation" has often been called the best "how-to" book on cartoon animation ever published.

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Pavel Siska wrote to tell us "This is a Czech (country which I come from)book about Blender 3D, it is basic book for beginners and covers all topic… I am sure it is pretty interesting, because this is first Czech book about Blender…"

With the new particle system coming out likely in the coming Peach release, we all probably want to learn more about how it works. So I've put together a collection of links to learn the new system. If you come across any resources yourself, let us know and we'll add them to the list.

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Roland Hess (aka harkyman), editor and lead author for “The Essential Blender” and creator of the BlenderPeople crowd simulation project, has been busy with yet another promising project…“The Beast”.

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