Shawn Kelly,  Senior Animator with Industrial Light and Magic and a co-founder of Animation Mentor has just released his second volume of Animation Tips & Tricks. The book  includes contributions from Animation Mentor Partner Carlos Baena, animator with PIXAR, as well as animation veterans Aaron Gilman, Animator at Weta Digital, Keith Sintay Senior Animator at Digital Domain and Wayne Gilbert, Animation Director.

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Paul Caggegi is working on an animation series in Blender. He's keeping a diary of his progress. This month's edition is very well produced and certainly worth watching!

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Clément Granjon has updated his Hologram tutorial with a 30-minute videotutorial.

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Award winning animator and the director of Elephants Dream, Bassam Kurdali, has begun production on his latest short 5min film entitled 'Tube'. The project has been in pre-production for several months and is now heading into the production phase.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching his second live 3-hour class (in the series of 3 classes,) continuing on the character model he blocked out in the first lesson. Once again the live class will be held at Blenducation. The class starts Saturday, March 7, with an entry fee of $20 (USD) for the class.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching about modeling a character in a series of 3 live classes, each 3 hours long, all at Blenducation. The first class starts Saturday, February 28, with an entry fee of $20 (U.S.) for the class.

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Sebastian König who created the Wasp timelapse last November, as promised has released his new project of a fly. This time along with his modeling timelapse video he has included the first part of a tutorial.

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Kernon Dillon, author of BlenderNewbies.com and publisher of the Blender Newbies Video Tutorial DVD, has published a 41 minute videotutorial on creating layered 2D snowflakes.

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Sagedread Unlimited has set up a video collection of Blender video tutorials, completely free and viewable online.  They call it Blendercast.

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Stencil maps can help push your model to the next level by allowing you to layer materials exactly as you see fit. This tutorial by Jonathan Williamson,  covers how to create a stencil map, applying it to your model in Blender and then using it to layer two different materials via the Material Nodes

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Alain Mathez (mcBlyver) has created some companion videos to his rigging tutorials that were featured in the BlenderArt magazine #19.  The videos show off what can be done with these rigging examples (a furniture hinge and a catepiller soft track) in real-time.  Quite impressive.

Update: Alain has posted an updated version of his tutorial here.

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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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With the new GLSL features in the Blender Game Engine we're starting to see some handy little tutorials popping up. Heres one about normal mapping, written by Lancer on Blenderartists.org

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Jonathan Williamson has published a tutorial on Blender's retopo tool on Blender.

From the Blender wiki: "Retopo (remake topology) is a tool for remaking the topology of a mesh. It's the opposite of the sculpting tools: instead of reshaping the model but leaving the topology the same, it reforms the topology, but maintains the same shape as the original model. You will not change the geometry of the original mesh in any way, you will be creating a new mesh that is projected upon an existing mesh."

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Ivan Hoffmann (digitalh) has made a case study on a great compositing technique for turning a day shot into a night shot – and he had to do the compositing work in a short amount of time.  For all you filmmakers out there, here's your chance to learn more about this very useful "Day to Night" technique!

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Sebastian König has posted a very nice time-lapse video in which he models, a wasp. It touches many techniques including subsurfaces, IK and even a spot of grease pencil sketching.

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An artist from Brazil called Leonardo Davi published on his blog, a great collection of tutorials about sculpting with Blender. The tutorial was meant to be his final project, for a degree in visual arts.

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The Dark Scarab site has many tutorials for blender users, cover car modeling, cloth, etc.

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