'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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Tony Mullen's 'Bounce, Tumble and Splash!' is now available in Japanese. Nice!

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Jonathan Williamson from Montage Studio has had a tutorial featured on the CGcookie website. The video tutorial covers a handy usage for the recently added shrink wrap modifier, applying it to the fast and simple creation of clothes for a human model.

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It's been quite some time since the last article that I wrote here. I have a good reason, though! Recently, I completed writing Blender For Dummies, and it's currently available for a discounted pre-order on Amazon.

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You can now pre-order "The Blender Gamekit 2nd Edition! Continue Reading 'Preorder "The Blender Gamekit 2nd Edition"!' »

The Brazilian Blender book, Blender 3D – Guia do Usuario was released again with a revised and expanded third edition. Now the book has 552 pages covering most of the basic aspects of Blender.

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Gunter Hannig aka zapman has written an excellent in-depth review of Carsten Wartmann's 'Blender DVD Seminar'.

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Some days ago I got a copy of Animating With Blender – How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish on my mailbox, and I have just finished reading it.

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Carsten Wartman, the author of the upcoming second edition of the Blender Gamekit, has released a sneek preview of one of the games.

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The old Blender Gamekit book has been translated into Spanish by Nodoy1 and is now free for viewing online at his site.

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Carsten Wartmann, the great writer of many blender books, is now officially writing the second edition of the Blender Gamekit books, the new books will cover the new functionality of the new Blender.

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If you're not always online, it can be kind of awkward having to rely on the Blender Wiki documentation (I guess ;-). Next time you're out hiking, painting the roof or are just without a broadband connection, make sure you have your copy of Marco Ardito's Blender Wiki PDF with you!

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German DVD tutoring publisher Video2Brain released a DVD called "Blender Video-Training".

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Article submitted by mangojambo. Cicero Moraes, aka Cogitas3D, is an amazing blender professional, working with Blender since 2005, making architectural visualization, animation and spots for TV. He is always participating in the Brazilian community, helping people at the forums, doing speeches for poor people at the public schools in Brazil. Now he did a free Portuguese Blender E-Book and his texts is really easy to understand.

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The new book 'Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish' by Roland Hess will start shipping on September 26. He just released the accompanying animation titled 'The Beast'.

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Confused with some of the new 2.47 features?? Or just want to know more details?

Luckily there's a new sticky thread on Blenderartists.org, which will set any nagging questions straight.

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I ran into two free e-books on Python programming the other day. They are both great assets if you want to do some scripting for Blender:

• Dive into Python [GNU Free Documentation License]
• Invent your own computer games with Python [Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0]

Update: make that TEN ELEVEN free Python books!

• Free Python Programming Books(Thanks, bebraw!)
• A Byte of Python(Thanks, sanne!)

Terry Wallwork reviews 'Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!: Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D'

Tony Mullen's been at it again releasing another Blender book this time on using Particles, Physics, Softbodies, Blender Game Engine and Fluid simulation features in Blender 2.46.

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