From Montage Studio this new DVD (currently only available in download form) is set to be part of a series of exercises that will walk newer users through modeling, texturing and animating in Blender.

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Endi2 has made a great trio of timelapses demonstrating sculpting a head, retopologizing the resulting mesh and the mesh with a normal map applied in a GLSL enabled 3D view. I found the head sculpting video particularly good. Really they were all great to watch. Find the videos here.

Visit the cgtalk thread about the videos here.

I wanted to write a quick note to let everybody know that my advance copies of "Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D" have arrived, and I'm very excited with how they've turned out! I've taken a few snapshots and posted them here on Flickr to give people a sense of what the book looks like on the inside: Continue Reading 'Update on Bounce Tumble and Splash by Tony Mullen' »

If your in the process of learning Blender, John R. Nyquist has created a series of videos on tips in using Blender. You can check them out at YouTube.

Here is a great tutorial created by Michael Jones, showing how to model a female head. It's not a time lapse, actually the whole tutorial has more than one hour of video!

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Apollos has two well written tutorials for using nodes on his site. You can check them out at at BlenderUnderground

This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to final render - and beyond. The result of the tutorials is an epic 90 second trailer.

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Just a quick note on the release of a new Blender book about architectural visualization from one of our editor's, Allan Brito. The book is called "Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery".

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Here is a great tutorial on how to do camera tracking in Blender, using the Voodoo camera tracker. The Voodoo software can estimates camera parameters, like position and rotation and reconstructs a 3d scene from image sequences.

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Here are two excellent time lapse modeling sessions from JS and Jonathan Williamson. I like thier choice of music too!

"In our spare time JS and I have sat down and recorded two new time lapses.
Timelapse (sped-up) videos are one of our ways of demonstrating our work flow to others.

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Do you remember Zanno? He was on the Blender 2.36 splash screen. Pablo Vazquez (AKA VenomGFX), the creator of Zanno, just published a great video tutorial, applying the new Blender physics (Particles and Soft Body) to Zanno.

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Theres a wealth of information in video format put out by PapaSmurf. You can check them out at Vimeo.

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One of the coolest scripts that came along with Blender 2.46, is the Trees From Curves. This script was developed for the Peach Project, to create trees and brushes. If you want to know the basics of how this script works, Ideasman42 has produced a video tutorial, showing the basics to create a tree model.

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Sebastian König has posted some great timelapse modeling and rendering sessions that are available at vimeo for your viewing pleasure. I particularly enjoyed the timelapse for the foxglove challenge. And remember if you are a member of vimeo you can download the original video files.

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From Jeremiah W.

Hello there! I have posted a tutorial on using the Blender Physics system (aka game engine) to animate falling, tossed, and hard to animate movements with objects. You can see the tutorial here

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Here are two great tutorials about Baking light and normal maps, created by Viktor W., and the tutorials use new features from Blender 2.46!

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Do you want to learn how to build a house in Blender? A Blender artist called Vaclav Chaloupka, was kind enough to create an incredible set of three video tutorials, showing the detailed process of modeling a complete house in Blender.

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Yorik sent us a tutorial recently on the process he went through creating trees, using nGPlant, for eventual rendering in Blender. And he even has a number of tree models ready and available for download in the .blend file format for use in Blender. Find them here.

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