Have you ever wondered how to create alpha masks for compositing in Blender?  Well, Philippe Roubal has written an explanation on how to do rotoscopoing and matte painting in Blender, so check it out now!

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CGCookie.com has published yet another great videotutorial by Jonathan Williamson – the guy is a tutorial MACHINE!

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A car wheel is a difficult thing to model. In this two part, 50 minute videotutorial, Andrew Price shows how its done.

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Learn how to prepare models in Blender (including UV mapping), export them to Collada and import them into Papervision3D in this 22 minute videotutorial. Very well made, very informative.

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Kamil Kuklo describes the creation of his work '15 minutes of glory' in detail.

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Robert Burke, the author of the 'Precision Modelling PDF Guide', has published an interesting article on the modeling and rigging of a mechanical guide.

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Katsbits.com use the sculpt tool to make a house look a LOT older.

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BlenderGuru.com, the new site of freelance Blender artist Andrew Price, has published a list of 25 useful Blender tricks.  A couple of them made me go 'wah!', so even after ten years of using Blender there's plenty to learn ;-) Check it out.

Kernon has posted a  a tutorial on efficient preview rendering at CG Cookie.

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Paul Caggegi from the Process Diary has posted another useful videotutorial, this time on landscape sculpting.

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FilmmakerIQ.com have published a list of a whopping 555 Blender tutorials.

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In this tutorial from Kernon Dillon,  he'll show you  how simple it is to drastically effect the look and feel of your renders by applying textures to lighting.

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The particle systems documentation on the Blender.org wiki has been completely updated. Please note that this documentation covers the particles from 2.46 and higher.

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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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