If you're unemployed and are living in Austria, you can get a free Blender training! Classes start at October 5th.

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Here's an easy way to change cameras during your animation without using the sequence editor.

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Okay, let's do some more Yarafay news: a tutorial by Allan Brito on the use of Alpha maps.

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Mats Halldin describes a great technique to visualize cut-outs of objects using node materials.

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Jonathan Williamson creates great videotutorials – they're always easy to follow and listen to (I always find a good voice and good pace are always paramount for a good videotutorial). Today, he explains the retopology tool in detail.

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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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Formacion Infografica are offering online Blender trainings in Spanish.

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Looking for a way to create a highly detailed, yet low-poly terrain for use in the Blender game engine? Then try this videotutorial by Roberto Roch.

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Rigging the face can be as difficult and as time-consuming as rigging an entire body. In this demonstration, Paul Caggegi takes two techniques – bone and lattice deformations – to produce a very flexible and versatile rig for a character's face.

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I think Kingsport in North East Tennessee is seeing more Blender action than me! Byron Kindig announces a new training and the next Blender Users Group meeting.

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In this video tutorial, Kernon Dillon explains how to enhance your reflections by using High Dynamic Range Images.

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Blender 3D Architect (Allan Brito) pointed me to an interesting tutorial on Yafaray.org on a generic Blender scene which creates great looking studio lighting with Yafaray.

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This in-depth tutorial by Reynante Martinez does a good job of explaining some key concepts of the Gimp. While not directly Blender-related, I think the Gimp is in many Blender artists' toolbox and I thought a little detour would be worth while.

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A quick and easy solution on how to render a Normal Pass out of Blender that will work with the ‘Normality’-plugin in After Effects. Blend file included.

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British Blender artist Sumit Sarkar has published a timelapse video of the creation of Ganesh, a Hindu deiti. He also created twelve extensive video tutorials on character creation. You may remember Sumit from his live 'Blender, HipHop and Curry' performance earlier this year.

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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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