Spanish publisher Anaya Multimedia has translated Tony Mullen's 'Introducing Character Animation with Blender' into Spanish.

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The crew of Blenderart magazine is organizing a special project, about the Blender material node system. They want to create a material node set-up "cookbook". If you have a cool node set-up, this may be your chance to publish a tutorial at Blenderart!

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3Dtutorials has a Fluid Simulator tutorial available from Stephen Meli (Lord of the Rings Junkie).

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A new book called "Starter Kit Blender", has been recently published by Pearson/Campus Press.

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Cellstorm has been collecting all kinds of Blender-related information in a FreeMind MindMap, which he has now published online.

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Remember the 'Color Difference Keying with Nodes' by David Weese? Well, David has now produced an hour long DVD teaching you the secrets of successful keying.

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Olivier Saraja wrote to inform us of the fact that 'La 3D Libre avec Blender' is now in its second edition. It has been fully updated to be compliant with Blender 2.44.

Do you remember Ka-ra?

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Tony Mullen's new Blender book, 'Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!' is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon.

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

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Jahka has started documenting the new particle system at the Blender wiki. Its in the early stages and not everything is covered, but it is a good place to find information on the new system if you are testing one of the development builds.

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Finally, after days of packing and packing "The Essential Blender" book is on its way to everyone who ordered one. Over 1500 books are traveling all over the world now. And this week or next week you can expect your book in your own mailbox. We wish you good fun with it and many creative hours.

Anja & Anne,
the packing team of
Blender e-shop

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The Brazilian Blender book “Blender 3D – Guia do Usuário”, it gains one second edition in less than eleven months! With the first edition sold out in April, I have been updating the book content for the latest Blender release. Last week, the publisher (Novatec) just release the second edition.
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We received word from Ton that Essential Blender is as good as ready to be shipped. Ton writes:

Right now the CD's are being inserted, and books get packed. Next week people can expect the books getting in the mailbox!

[insert obligatory remark to support the Blender Foundation by ordering this book ;-)]

A few weeks ago a very nice article called, “Freelancer`s Manifesto – A Collection of Advices” was published on cgarena, by an artist called Anselm V. Seherr, or 3Delicious. The article gives some tips and advices, for artists that work as a freelancer. Like how to deal with projects and get organized. And the author mentions Blender in the article!

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A little while ago, I received a copy of Mobile 3D Graphics: Learning 3D Graphics with the Java™ Micro Edition from Thomson Course Technology, a publisher of a variety of technology and graphics-related books. Being eager to delve into the subject myself and knowing that there two chapters of the book devoted to the use of Blender for mobile 3D applications, I was very interested in seeing what the author, Claus Höfele, had to offer on the subject. As it turns out, the answer is "quite a bit."

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Igor Križanovskij has kept personal notes on his experiences with Blender and made them available in a wikibook format. In it, you'll find answers to beginner FAQs, a material Refraction Values Table, reference links, tips, rigs, .blend files and more.

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If you can still purchase issue #91 in your local bookstore jump on it. In this issue there is a tutorial by Bassam Kurdali on rigging a fully posable worm character in Blender.

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