Terry Wallwork reviews Johnny Blender, a 'Twenty-Eight part series on the complete creation of a character in Blender, from a single polygon to a fully-rigged and textured character. You can either watch these tutorials for free on YouTube, or order a DVD – for each sold DVD, a donation will be made to the Blender Foundation.

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Super-awesome facial rigging tutorial by David Ward, available now at BlenderCookie.com!  This tutorial teaches you how to rig an alien face: head, mouth, and eye – even how to do "sticky eyeballs." :)

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Raimon is hosting an introductory Blender workshop in Barcelona over the next two weeks.

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There will be a Blender 2.5 and BGE seminar held at the Alpha Channel CG school on November 14, 2009, in São Paulo, Brazil. Check it out now!

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BlenderGuru's Andrew Price explains how to create an effective depth of field effect with the Blender node editor.

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Nice tutorial by Jeff LaMarche on how to prepare Blender files for shapeways 3D printer output.

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A team of no less than four five people worked on this year's Suzanne Awards: Bassam Kurdali, Kursad Karatas, Jarred De Beer, Pablo Vazquez and Jan Morgenstern. Bassam writes about the creative process of the production.

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"Kroni has been working on some lighting tutorials and has published two. The lighting setup is done with blender's internal render engine."

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Gordon Fisher will be hosting a three-hour workshop on using Python.

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The Ott Planetarium (see also our previous posts) have released their latest production, 'Sizing up Space' as an open movie – including all source files. In addition, they have planned a new workshop.

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Derrick Sesson (cganim8or) has spent a lot of time making a bunch of 50+ tutorials on youtube lately.

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An *extensive* video tutorial teaching you how to create your own Manga Character.

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In his latest video, Paul Caggegi covers a number of tips including camera rigging and asset management.

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Three new Blender workshops have been announced.

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Allan Brito has published a mini-tutorial on how to use FreeStyle rendering in the current 2.50 builds.

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Videotutorial provider CG Cookie have spun off a Blender-only service earlier this week: Blender Cookie. I talked to Wes Burke about this project.

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A new Blender workshop in Alcantarilla, Spain with two famous Blenderheads: Pablo Vazquez (Venomgfx) and
Claudio Andaur (Malefico)! Date is 9-10 November.

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Renderosity features a *long* article about Blender books.
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