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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You may remember Oto the cleaner from a previous article. We'd like to draw attention to another of his tutorials, an excellent beginner's look at rigging, setting up constraints, weighting and animating a female figure.
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Robert Burke has created a modeling tutorial with a focus on precision modeling. It is an excellent and very detailed tutorial. Some great techniques and clear detailed instructions.

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According to Blender.org printing of the new Blender manual has begun.

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This is another excellent tutorial from BlendedPlanet. I'm sure you all remember the previous tutorials and resources we've posted from BlendedPlanet. This new one covers one of the most difficult things to key, hair.

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Starting this summer another Blender book will be in progress by the talented Tony Mullen. And this one looks to be an exciting one. The one thing that really makes me smile about this book is that it will be in full color. And it will cover some of the deep mysteries involving simulations (hair, particles, etc.) in Blender.
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The German version of the Blender Documentation is the book of the month at the German Wikibooks site.

A new Blender book has been published in Spain. It's title is "Blender. Curso de Iniciación" (Blender, an introduction course)

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A few months ago, I spotted a French book called 'Blender et POV-Ray - La 3D en toute liberté' on Amazon.com. After looking around in the French community I found Michaël Thelliez who was prepared to check the book out for us, so I ordered him a copy. Here's his report.

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I'm one of those that has yet to experiment with the Blender Game engine. But if you are one of those people that are on the edge like myself and need some help to get started. These tutorials are a great start.

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Coming in May of this year! From the Blender e-shop:

'Essential Blender', the next book from the Blender Foundation, is your official guide to learning the fundamentals of this open and free 3D software suite. The book can be used as a step-by-step guide for people new to Blender or new to the latest changes in Blender. This book is the ideal companion for the previous 2.3 Blender guide.

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Article submitted by Olm-z:

When Nintendo got out its latest machine, the Wii, some of us where to think that the real innovation was not in the console itself, but in the bew controllers (Wiimote and Nunchuk) that use a clever and ready to use set of accelerometers and for the Wiimote, a special pointing system with IR cam and leds ….

So lots of people started to hack and reverse engineer the controller way to communicate with the Wii and developing drivers for Win, Mac an Linux … (all things that are accessible here: http://www.wiili.org).

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Its an incredible time to get into Blender, especially with all of the available learning resources. Lets look at one of these resources. A head modeling training DVD from Jonathan Williamson (aka:mr_bomb) that covers every aspect of modeling the female head. You may remember Jonathan's head and ear modeling videos well this is a leap above that and we'll take an insiders look at what can be found on this excellent resource.

When we first heard about this DVD we pinned Jonathan down to ask him a few questions under the spotlight.

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One of our readers pointed out sometime ago that Portuguese readers have a lot more books available, yes you read right.

Seems like we missed one Portuguese Blender book, but luckily someone was kind enough to point it out.

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