Here's another handful of items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a new Blender tutorial in 3D World magazine, an interview with Enrico Valenza in the Italy, mentions in two German magazines and finally the appearance of Elephants Dream on DivX.com

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This is a magazine that I've received for almost a couple of years. It's always a good quick read and has lots of info on new software. Also, there's always a behind-the-scenes feature on the latest computer animated films and movie special effects. It's certainly not Blender-specific but, I think it's important to know what's going on in the industry, outside of your own preferred sphere of activity.

The magazine focuses on innovative graphics technology and applications. Written for engineers, researchers, designers, and animators, CGW explores how leading-edge graphics techniques are used in CAD, architecture, scientific visualization, special effects, digital video, film, and interactive entertainment.

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Here are four short items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: articles and tutorials in a Japanese, German and Dutch magazines and Blender as HD Demo material for video compression software.

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It seems that everyone around the world has been busy writing Blender books! Earlier this week we already saw 'Introduction to Character Animation in Blender'. Now we've heard that a new Blender book was released in Japan last month: 'Blender Beginner's Bible', by Shinichi Tasaki.

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Here are three short items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a German magazine and TV show, and a Brazilian newspaper.

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BlenderArt Magazine is the free periodic Blender Magazine that covers one or two specific themes in each issue. This issue's theme is Modeling Techniques and Python Scripts. If you're looking for character-, low-poly- o treemodeling tutorials, be sure to check it out!

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Johan Burell (Burre), one of the founders and lead programmer for the development team at Pixelknights announced on Elysiun that their game Origo: Prologue had the units and buildings (and some of the trailer) created entirely in Blender. Origo: Prologue is a realtime strategy game for the Zodiac PDA. I recently spoke with Burre about the game and how Blender was involved.

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With the premiere of Elephants Dream approaching, the media are really starting to pick up the news. Today, an interview with Ton Roosendaal appeared on the frontpage of 'Het Financieele Dagblad', one of the leading Dutch financial newspapers.

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Fast issue this time, just a few words to report that recently subdivisionmodeling.com added Blender on its Reviews section banners area and on the Software review section with a quick'n'nice introduction about 2.41 written by Patrick Noland.

It's always a pleasure to see Blender advertised on websites not strictly connected to it, expecially when they have a huge community made up of real pros.

Linux Magazine is looking for translators who can help him to translate a series of Python articles from French to English.

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Tony Mobily, the Editor In Chief of Free Software Magazine is looking for Blender content for his magazine.

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Blender is having a great time during this period, Project Orange is boosting development and some mid-high level artists are getting interested in using this amazing piece of software; so it seems that after years Blender is getting the right amount of popularity/visibility it'll need to make a big step towards the professional audience.

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Void has worked for a Romanian magazine called MyLinux and during that period he has written a couple of articles on Blender. One issue that contains his work is now available for free.

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The February 2006 edition of 3D World features an article about Open Source graphics and project Orange:

The open source revolution
Professional graphics created with free software: fantasy or reality? We interview the key players in the market, and bring you the first of six production diaries from the set of Elephants Dream [the movie that the Orange team is working on, bart], the world's first 'open source movie'

I haven't picked up this copy yet, but 3D World Magazine has always been one of my favourites so I'll be sure to get one today :)

Update: buh, the February edition wasn't in the shop yet…