Renderosity features a *long* article about Blender books.
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Tony Mullen announced his upcoming book on iPhone game development with Blender and the SIO2 game engine.

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cmiVFX Have released another 'Mammoth' videotutorial by Sebastian König. Like his previous tutorials (Organic Modeling Techniques, Blender Unwrapping and Baking, and Blender Texturing) this one looks very impressive. It sells for $19.95.

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David Ward has just finished a great DVD. We wrote earlier about his detailed youtube series- its now complete, online and also available on DVD. Plus, just to add to it, hes even helping out the Blender Foundation!

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Big changes are afoot in the Blender community and it seems like everyone is preparing for it in his own way. Tutorials publisher CGCookies.com have announced a *very* comprehensive training series for Blender 2.5.

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The Macquairie ICT Innovation Centre in Sydney, Australia has published a series of freely introductory video tutorials for high school students.

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Sebastian König has created two new video-tutorials for cmiVFX. The topics are unwrapping+baking and texture-painting. Note: cmiVFX provides on-line streaming video tutorials – not DVD's.

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Terry Wallwork has reviewed the new book 'Foundation Blender Compositing' by Roger Wickes.

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Lynda.com, a major tutorials website, have just added Blender to their program and released a 9-hour Blender video training by Roger Wickes.

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An interesting primer on Open Source and Blender for Spanish readers. I can't judge the quality of the contents, but it certainly looks like an extensive piece of work that could be useful to many people.

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cmiVFX have announced their second Blender training video. This one is created by Sebastian König (see also Sebastian's other videos on BlenderNation) and focuses on organic modeling techniques such as sculpting, weight mapping, retopology and shrink wrapping.

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From blender.org: "After tests with English subtitles – which didn't work at all – we decided to produce [the Venom's Lab DVD] with 2 audio tracks, Spanish and English.". That is a most excellent decision guys! It will make the DVD much, much, much more useful for everybody. PLUS we get to hear Venom's cool English/Spanish accent as a bonus :)

(PS: if you haven't seen it yet, check out the cool Venom's Lab trailer)

After more than three years, the popular (and free!) classroom tutorial book 'Blender Basics' has received a thorough upgrade.

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The Blender Foundation has announced a new training DVD called 'Venom's Lab!' by Yo Frankie! team member Pablo Vazquez.

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Another quality tutorial from CGCookie, this one is by Kernon Dillon and its about using some neat techniques in Blender to 'paint' objects into a scene.

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Guess what? Jonathan Williamson has done it again! This time he brings us a 6 part series on head modeling, completely free to watch online. Check it out here!

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Earlier this year we featured a very impressive music video by Dono and Frenchman (see the article here). Now the team has done it again, by providing us all with an amazingly detailed 'Making Of' which is quite comprehensive, to say the least.

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'Art of Community' is a new book currently being written by Jono Bacon. Its a book detailing the many areas of  communities which follow 'Every software project, online site, or company' and how to build a strong community. The book is relevant to Blender as Ton Roosendaal has recently contributed some interview content.

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