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Looking back on 2006
It was a busy year for everyone who is involved with Blender in one way…
Erroneous: Blender Model Repository Moves
**Looks like we got this one wrong and I personally blew it. It seems that…
Semicuro pattern/texture generator
A very interesting texture generator written in Java. The program has an brush/bristle creation tool…
Call for 2.43 Release Notes Samples
Blender developers are currently wrapping up the 2.43 release. Rumours are that a release candidate…
Blender for Architecture.
There has been a growing community of individuals and studios using Blender for architectural visualizations…
Tutorial: Ice Material
Let's face it, a good material can make even a cube look amazing. This tutorial…
Lighting Tutorials
Good lighting can bring your models to life. The right tint of the lighting can…
Elephants Dream in CGSociety's CG Retrospective 2006
Here's a nice Christmas present for y'all: Elephants Dream was included in CGSociety's CG Retrospective…
Videotutorial: A Christmas Tree
Kernon Dillon is working on a six-part video-tutorial on making your own lighted christmas tree…
Deadline: Write a Tutorial, Earn $30
Today is the deadline for submitting the Character Animation tutorials for the $30 prize that…
Blender2Mentalray v 0.0.3
You might recall the one small step for Blender which was the incorporation of MentalRay…
Tutorial: Creating a vase in Blender
If you're new to Blender and you would like a kickstart introduction to modeling, check…
Use Blender With Microsoft Robotics Studio
About ten days ago (on December 12th) Microsoft released it's Microsoft Robotics Studio (which is…
Blender Training Workshop: Richmond, VA, USA
Hand Turkey Studios (the company of Jason 'Groo' van Gumster, the blender.org gallery maintainer and…
CVS: Image Refactor + Multiple UV/Vertex Colors
The Blender 2.43 release is getting closer everyday, and even with the clock counting down…
Realtime 3D Contest: €25,000 in prizes
TDT3D.com, 'the European CG Network' is hosting a realtime 3D contest with a rather impressive…
Write a Tutorial, Earn $30
In November we wrote about Blender3DTutorials.com, a Google powered search engine by Jason Schluter for…
Quicklinks - Blender in the Media
Here's another handful of items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a…
Tutorial: Texture Stencils
I don't know about the rest of you but one of the things I enjoy…
Blender.org Gallery Updated
Groo just published the November update of the Blender.org gallery. Again, there's lots of cool…