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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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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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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Remember Dave Ward's funny animations we posted last year? Well, Dave is now working on a rather large videotutorial on the development of a detailed character. So far, he has published eleven parts and is this only covers the modeling!

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A new videotutorial by Kernon Dillon for CGCookie.com. It uses the same technique as we covered earlier in 'Non-photorealistic rendering: Painting with Polygons'.

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The Durian marketing department (if they have one ;-) is slowly starting to wake up. Today, David Revoy revealed a preview of a concept art painting time-lapse video which will be included on the Durian DVD. He uses Mypaint / Alchemy and Gimp on Linux.

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CGCookie have compiled a huge set of video tutorials and sample files by Jonathan Williamson.

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If you enjoyed Daniel's environmental commercial and were wondering about his process, he writes about it on the Brighter Planet site and offers some blend files for you to reverse engineer.

Don't look at the rather hideous sample video; this 30-minute videotutorial on Blender fluids by Greg Dunn is actually a rather good introduction.

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