Jonathan Williamson is starting up a Blender user group in Kansas City and has announced the first meeting.

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CGCookie have compiled a huge set of video tutorials and sample files by Jonathan Williamson.

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Ben Dansie (of Montage Studio,) has made a very impressive demo reel for his Durian Project application(Ben is one of the few artists who made the Durian team!) Check out the video now! Continue Reading 'Ben Dansie's Durian Demo Reel' »

Jonathan Williamson has just posted a overview video of 2.5 so far, demonstrating some of the changes we're seeing coming to the next big release and redesign of Blender.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb) will be teaching a live class on Edgeloop Methodology at Blenducation this coming Saturday.

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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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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching about modeling a character in a series of 3 live classes, each 3 hours long, all at Blenducation. The first class starts Saturday, February 28, with an entry fee of $20 (U.S.) for the class.

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The BLENDING LIFE challenge has ended and what a ride! There's been some amazing entries!

The judges have given their scores which will count for fifty percent of the total score. The other fifty percent  will come from you, so they need you to please stop by the contest site and and give your vote!

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Jean-Sébastien Guillemette from Montage Studios has started giving Blender workshops in Montréal! Check out what he has to say about it:

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Montage Studio is a small collaborative CG studio of three artists: Jonathan Williamson, Jean-Sébastian Guillemette and Ben Dansie. We strive to provide the best possible quality in all of the art we produce and continually work to progress our own skills.

Company contact information: contact(at)montagestudio(dot)org

I've been working in 3D since 2002. I love what I do and I try to show that through my commitment to quality. I've worked on a vast number of independent and commercial projects ranging from lowpoly game characters to high-res, animated intros.

Aside from my freelance work, I have also spent a good amount of time teaching. I participated and taught at two Montreal Blender conferences, the New Your Blender conference, and I was part of a small team that taught Blender at a Summer camp for Jr. Highschool students hosted by Red Hat Linux. On my own time I have also produced a number of video tutorials and published three training DVDs.

My two passions are creating art and passing on what I've learned, I do my best to show this through my work and by always trying to give back to the community that has taught me so much.</long>

My hourly rate is negotiable but I prefer to work on a per project basis.

Links

• My contact: jonathan(at)montagestudio(dot)org
• Portfolio

Jonathan Williamson from Montage Studio has had a tutorial featured on the CGcookie website. The video tutorial covers a handy usage for the recently added shrink wrap modifier, applying it to the fast and simple creation of clothes for a human model.

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We (Len West), Jonathan Williamson (www.montagestudio.org) and Derek Marsh (BgDM at Blenderartists.org) have just launched a really exciting contest at Blenderartists.org. It's all about creating realistic and lifelike human portraits by using our favorite application, Blender 3d.  Let me tell you, Blender is more than capable of pulling this off, especially with the fairly recent development in SSS, and the new hair particle system.

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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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Ashish recently emailed us to point out a great step by step head modeling tutorial, by Carlos R. Bisquertt, done completely in Blender. It has been published by CGarena and can be found here.

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This post is a review of the Body modeling DVD created by Jonathan Williamson of Montage Studio. If you don't know about Jonathan Williamson or Montage Studio I recommend browsing our past posts here at Blendernation or checking out montagestudio.org. They have a blog they keep up to date on the latest happenings at the studio.

In this review, I'll do my best to touch on each topic covered on the DVD, so the reader can get an understanding on whether or not this DVD is for them, as well as describe the quality of the content.

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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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We all know very well the great tutorials from Montage Studio. And now they are offering some free models to download as well! The first one is a male body model.

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