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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My previous Giant Spider post turned out not to be done in Blender after all, so I set out to find one that was. I found a videotutorial by 15 year old Daniel Reynolds, who explains how to align a spider animation with live action footage and then uses After Effects to composite it.

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Do you know how to use all the new tools of the upcoming Blender 2.46? No? Would you like to learn how to use some of them with a set of video tutorials? Now you can!

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A Blender artist called Alex Fraser has published on his web site a great tutorial on how to setup the eyes of a character to track a target.

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"It’s finally here. GameBlender – ARToolKit demo contains camera tracking in GameBlender’s virtual scene, as it is shown in Little man video. To get it working, you need to install Texture plug-in and PyARToolKit module. (I’ve sorted out some bugs in Texture plug-in, so I suggest to download actual version)."

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Blender Artist Colin Levy participates in the PSAId contest with an short video. He has also published a video explaining how he made it – focusing on the camera mapping.

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The MontageStudio has published another great tutorial about character modeling. This time it`s a timelapse of a Steam-Punk head.

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Here's a use for Blender that you haven't seen before: the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, BC, Canada, has been quietly working with Blender and the Blender Game Engine to produce scientific data visualizations on the effect of fishing policy on fish populations. In addition, they're looking for summer interns who can work with Blender.

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Have you ever tried to use the script to integrate Blender and V-Ray? If you don't know how to use it, now there is a great video tutorial on how to use them.

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I met Roy Simmons about two years ago when I was in London for work. He then showed me a training DVD that he had created. The content of this DVD is now available online for free.

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