nawabz wrote us about a nice video tutorial by David Ward from BlenderCookie.com. The video started by adding the default human meta-rig template then adding basic IKs for the arm and leg and a fews constraints to the palm and fingers to make them form a perfect fist. The tutorial uses b-bone for nicely twisting forearms, spine and neck. Check out the video from his site.

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Reynante Martinez has published 4 very impressive detailed particle tutorials that cover if not everything you need to know about particle system. From getting start with basic parameters for both hair and emitter, into creating advance effect like fire and disintegration of mesh object. He also gave the blend files!

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Paul Caggegi released 2 video tutorials of his character modeling using Blender 2.49b this month. The first one released on August 10th is about the boot tongue and laces, adding more details with extrusion, edge-loops, altering crease weight, and modeling with Bézier curves. The second one from August 22nd is said to be  focusing on getting the hair and teeth. Visit the links to his site for the direct downloads of these videos and more.

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MeshWeaver just put his new modeling tutorial on-line. The tutorial will cover 16 must-known Blender 2.5 commands and shortcuts, starting from grabbing, rotating and scaling objects then get into the edit mode to modify the mesh data. The tutorial also covers linked duplication, normal shading, splitting, etc. Suitable for beginners and those who don’t want to miss any necessary basic command.

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Sebastian König told us about his Syntheyes training. While this one is only about Syntheyes, the second part which will come out in September will be geared toward Blender compositing so they give a 30% discount coupon for this tutorial. Sebastian also sent us a video demoing the Blender-Syntheyes workflow and some other results.

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In this 48-minute video tutorial, Blender Guru Andrew Prices teaches you how to re-create the Starcraft 2 logo.

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• Recreate the Starcraft 2 Logo

Looking for a way to spend your Sunday?  (And probably a good part of the week as well, by the way). Check out this list of close to 100 free Blender 2.5 video tutorials by Neil Hirsig! They’re all organized by topic, and as a starting Blender user this is a great way to learn your way around Blender.

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• Blender 3D Design Course (Click on the ‘Blender Video Tutorials’ link in the grey block).

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As a whole, Endre Baráth’s [endi] short movie ‘A Very Little Warrior‘ was well received in March on Blendernation. People felt that the technique was awesome, but that the animation and story could use some more work. He has now published the ‘making of’, so you can now all do better than him ;-)

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