Back, by popular demand, are the Blender training class offered by Karl Kühberger.

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Last week, the second Red Hat High technology camp ended. You may recall that we reported around this time last year about 3 members of the Blender community traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina to teach at the first ever Red Hat High technology camp. This year, we had 4 Blender instructors from the community, and based on the incredible work produced by students last year, we had a better idea of what to expect. We decided to put greater emphasis on animation this year and the students rose to the challenge, blowing all of us away.

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The second session of TOSMI is drawing near (6th - 12th of August).

If you missed the deadline to submit your application you are in luck, seems like there are two more scholarships available.

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Seems like the Portuguese community keeps growing.
And with this in mind we see some cool events coming up, such as this one.

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Its been long since the first TOSMI session ended and we were so busy that we missed the final article. Now with the deadline for the second TOSMI session getting near we decided to show what happened at the end of the first session.

Here is a heads up on how everything turned out.

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Some of you may remember Ekakiya from our previous article about his technique for illustration style rendering. Now he has come up with another excellent compositing technique for toon-style motion blur. And an example file has even been provided!

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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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Roughly 6 months from their first workshop offering, Hand Turkey Studios will be holding two Blender training workshops this month on consecutive weekends. Both classes are considered 'Basics' level classes, though they do build upon each other and even offer a few tricks that more experienced users would find helpful. Continue Reading '2 Blender Workshops in Richmond, Virginia' »

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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Mike Smick wrote to us regarding a Blender class he'll be teaching.

Nothing big, but I'm teaching a 2 part 3 hour (6 hr total) Blender class in Kansas City on July 18 and July 19. It's through a community class summer program of University of Missouri Kansas City. It's called "Introduction to 3D graphics using Blender."

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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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Five days have already gone by and the first TOSMI is near its end. But hold on tight, although its near its end, its far from over, just read how hectic it has been for the last 3 days.

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The second day of TOSMI ended and we are really happy about how things are evolving, not only are the trainees catching up but they are also enthusiastic about it, we can surely say they are more motivated then we anticipated.

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Jim Chronister, author of the acclaimed classroom tutorial book 'Blender Basics', is preparing a series of Blender trainings at the Central Dauphin School in Harrisburg, PA.

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Have you heard of the Stanford bunny? How about the Utah teapot? And how does a Mandrill primate, found in the tropical rainforests of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo have anything to do with the history of computer graphics and animation?

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An inconspicuous post in our Event Calendar in February led to a flood of reactions: Karl Kühberger was organising a Blender Workshop in Vienna but it was meant only for teachers. Many Austrian Blender users were interested in attending such a workshop and now Karl is ready with the preparations to do just that!

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Yes, you read right.

Open Source Multimedia Training organized by the InterSpace Media Arts Center and sponsored by the European Union.

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Centre College in Danville, KY is using Blender in its Principles of Computer Animation class. The class is designed to learn the basics of computer animation. The students started the three week course, many of them with little to no computer animation experience, animating a ball bouncing.

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