Here's a cool demonstration of Daniel 'Pepeland' Martinez Lara's Blender setup and of the new grease pencil feature. A preview of the video that he's editing is available as well – done in Max and Maya, not Blender. Funny stuff though :)

The Guerilla CG Project has published an initial set of extremely useful and well-produced videotutorials, demonstrating general CG techniques. The videos are produced by acclaimed animators: Andrew Silke (Happy Feet, Scooby Doo, Cane Toad), Glen Moyes (famous Blenderhead! – coming soon), Greg Petchkovsky (Farscape, Crocodile Hunter, House of Flying Daggers) and Jake Hempson (character artist at THQ – also coming soon).

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French publisher FormaCD have released another Blender Videotutorial DVD with 35 hours of instructions in Flash. It's priced at €25 for the DVD version or €20 for the downloadable version. For more information, visit this page and in the top-left click on the DVD's image (the pages aren't reachable by a URL), or download a demonstration video (Windows version / OSX Version)

If anyone's interested in doing a review, please contact us and I'll try to get a review copy!

Can you create some great looking 2D graphics in Blender? Sure you can! LightningIsMyName explains how.

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Remember the Blender Conference in Kingsport last August? It took the organization a massive amount of work, but they have now published 11 videos of the sessions – over 7 hours of material in total!

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BlenderNewbies author Kernon Dillon has published a compilation DVD of his excellent videotutorials. They offer high-resolution video and better sound quality than the on-line versions. It's priced at $35 – $33.25 if you order before Monday.

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Part of the upcoming 2.48 release is controllable shadow intensity and color. Roland Hess, author of new book 'Animating with Blender', and coder of this new feature, explains all the ins and outs.

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Clément Granjon (aka Weilynn on BA) has made a neat tutorial on how to reproduce the classic 3D hologram style using Blender.

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The guys from Montage Studio Just did it again. They have started another great timelapse modeling series, and this time they will model a Steampunk airship.

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A great article about the Blender fluid simulation has just been released by an online publication called DevMag. We have been contacted by Reynante Martinez, who wrote a small description of the publication and the article:

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Lucas Veber recently wrote a 'making of' tutorial for his photo realistic image entitled 'Grapes' from a while back.

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William Chamberlin has a great set of earth models on his site. He describes his creation process in a 20-page tutorial.

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Totally Blended is hosting over 20 videotutorials that may be of use if you're learning Blender. I watched a few and quite enjoyed them, although they're sometimes just as funny/crazy as the website's design and font ('woaaahhhh…. I'm really tired, okay – here we go', 'ah sorry, that was just me adjusting my chair' ;-).

Lile Hanson has created an excellent tutorial on using the new GLSL preview feature. He shows you how to combine different layers, by painting them onto your model in Texture Paint mode using the paint brush. This is similar to masking two photos in Photoshop. I've been wanting this feature for a long time and it's great to see it implemented in Blender.

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(submitted by Jordan Harris) Knowing a lot about a piece of software is one thing, but being able to explain it clearly and concisely through a tutorial is another.

William Chamberlin has recently released a fabulous tutorial on creating a realistic render of LDraw bricks. (LDraw is a virtual  library of 3D LEGO parts) It's well-written and easy to follow, so check it out.

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Recently, we posted about a Blender head modeling tutorial on cgarena. Well it looks like the author has completed the ear tutorial to accompany it.

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What is a Wixel?

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Juan Pablo Bouza has just released a new and very detailed character rig using his latest version of BlenRig (BlenRig 2.0). You might remember him as the creator of a past animation, 'The Dance of the Bashful Dwarf'.

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