How about a collection of video timelapses demonstrating sculpting in Blender? Sure! Good for inspiration and fun to watch. Let us know if you've come across any and link them in the comments. We'll add them to the post. Enjoy!

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With the new particle system coming out likely in the coming Peach release, we all probably want to learn more about how it works. So I've put together a collection of links to learn the new system. If you come across any resources yourself, let us know and we'll add them to the list.

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Remember that training DVD we talked about? Well not only is it now shipping. But Montage Studio also has made it, and the previous modeling a female head DVD available in downloadable versions.

*warning mild nudity*

For more information read the blog post on Montage Studio.

Recently we posted about Jonathan's new DVD for sale. But we also want to point you out to some great timelapses available for viewing on his website. Find them here.

I personally really enjoyed watching the stylized head.

Another great video by Chris from welcometochrisworld.com! I just wish it didn't always end up with this stupid grin on my face after watching his work ;-)

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Here's a nice timelapse video, created by tonkv, demonstrating several of Blender functions.

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Neal Hirsig, a professor at the prestigious Tufts University, has created an online course to teach students to use Blender. The course is available to all for free on Hirsig's website.

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The cmiVFX in a partnership with the CG Channel, has released a free online tutorial, about composition techniques and render passes with Blender! This is a video tutorial, showing the process of composition with the node editor.

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Would you like to learn how to use Blendigo or RibMosaic? To integrate Blender with Indigo or 3delight? If you speak Spanish, now you can! A Blender artist called afacelis, from the Niel Blender forums, has created a set of video tutorials, showing how to use both scripts.

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Did you know that you can set up animations without manually inserting keyframes? Eugene has published a good short videotutorial on this topic. It's good to see you back in Blenderland, Eugene!

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If you speak Portuguese, there is a very good set of tutorials for Blender, created by a Brazilian user called tioilmo. All videos are hosted at YouTube, and there are 30 videos available.

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Ian Elsner is sharing some of his thoughts on modeling and animating while working on his movie, 'Eros', in a series of video monologues. Interestingly enough, he recorded three episodes while on holiday in Greece and China.

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Here's another excellent videotutorial by Blendernewbies' Kernon Dillon. This time, he dives into the topic of applying and positioning texture decals in Blender.

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Blender and its predecessor Traces were originally developed on an SGI, so here's a tutorial with a bit of history attached.

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A very good video tutorial has been released by Montage Studio, showing the entire process for modeling a Lowpoly character with Blender, for using in game projects. The video has a total running time of approximately 50 min, and it`s in high quality 1024 x 768.

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As the Blender community continues to grow by leaps and bounds, there can never be enough tutorials that cover the basics. Apollos has started a tutorial series on Blender basics that has high production qualities and looks very promising.

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spaghettimoon.co.uk has a collection of tutorials available for your learning pleasure. What lead us to the website were some tutorials we discovered that involved the creation of a character in Blender.
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Maybe you've heard the whispers in the air of the new features being developed. One of the most noticed by many involves some updates being made to the internal rendering engine. Specifically, the edition of more rendering controls that now allow the creation of caustic effects.

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