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Racing game demo on Steam

10 February, 2012 - 03:00
All art in this game was designed in Blender. endi writes: Ignite is a racing game for Windows. It is published on Steam and now it has a demo. All levels and most of the level models, 3d menu pages...

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Blender 2.62 Release Candidates Now Available

9 February, 2012 - 22:21
The Blender Foundation has just published the first release candidates of Blender 2.62. Please download, test, and report any bugs that you may (or rather, will!) find. If everything goes according...

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Free Model: Viking Helmet

9 February, 2012 - 19:00
A nice old Viking helmet – just what you needed, isn’t it? Tomas Palombo writes: New Blend for BlendSwap, it is a Viking helmet made ​​entirely of free software. Autor: Tomas Palombo This...

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Blender Video Editing workshop in Barcelona

9 February, 2012 - 15:00
A 32-hour workshop on video editing in Blender in Barcelona, Spain, starts next week. carlos padial writes: Telenoika (Audiovisual Open Creative Community) proposes a video editting workshop with...

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Stained Game : Trailer Launch

9 February, 2012 - 11:00
Stained was developed entirely using open-source software. Modelling and level design was done in Blender, the graphics are powered by OGRE, and the Bullet drives the physics engine. sushil writes:...

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Juggernaut

9 February, 2012 - 10:06
By MmAaXx. MmAaXx writes: Hi all. here my latest personal work done for a competition on a italian forum charactersforum.com. Modeling in Blender 2.61 (bat3a builds) render in vray Because I...

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Remesh Modifier: Sharp Mode

8 February, 2012 - 23:00
Nicholas Bishop explains the difference between the ‘smooth’ and ‘sharp’ mode of the remesh modifier. Nicholas writes: I’ve noticed that people are often unsure why you’d ever...

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GuyBrush – Monkey Island

8 February, 2012 - 19:00
Another really nice character by Paulo Ricardo S. Ribeiro.  

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The Making of Captain Proton

8 February, 2012 - 15:00
Luis Arizaga revisits his awesome Captain Proton image and takes you through it’s creation process. Luis writes: This cartoon character was based on a retro sci-fi idea. I wanted to show a...

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Animated Documentary ‘Mijn geluk in Auschwitz’

8 February, 2012 - 11:00
A Dutch team of animators is working on an animated documentary based on the true story of holocaust survivor Hajo Meijer. Rob Tuytel writes: At this moment we are working on a short animation...

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Fracture Add-on Tutorial

8 February, 2012 - 07:00
Here’s some more information on how to use the Fracture Add-on. JoaoYates writes: This is a fracture tutorial that covers how to setup the addon, fracture an object and suspend the physics...

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Blender Movie Winner in 2011 Science Visualization Challenge

8 February, 2012 - 03:00
Christopher Wilmer’s video ‘High density energy storage using self-assembled materials’ has won a prize in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge....

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Blender 101 Class and Meetup in San Antonio Texas

7 February, 2012 - 23:00
Blenderheads in San Antonio: you’re invited to a 1-hour Blender class and a user meetup. Have fun! Greg writes: Have you ever watched a Pixar Movie and wanted to know how they made it? Have you...

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Short film: ‘The muse from a tram’

7 February, 2012 - 19:00
A short movie by Alexander Volos. Alexander writes: This is my first film as a director. I and colleagues studied the possibility of a Blender and GIMP on this project. Film about the musician, who...

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Non-Blender: Open Source Real Time SSS Shader

7 February, 2012 - 15:00
(Watch in HD!!) Jorge Jimenez writes: These last months I’ve learned a very important lesson: efforts towards rendering ultra realistic skin are futile if they are not coupled with HDR, high quality...

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TV-News lead-in

7 February, 2012 - 11:00
Six intro videos for a local Russian television station. Galya writes: Lead-in forms for the region TV-channel program. Made with Blender by the team of Slonstudio project (more at slonstudio.org)....

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Reynante Martinez wins Digital Arts California Stellar Art Award

7 February, 2012 - 07:00
Reynante Martinez’ work has been selected by Digital Arts: California for an exhibition. Reynante writes: I just wanted to share with the Blender community some wonderful news I got today....

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P3d.in Open Beta

6 February, 2012 - 15:00
With P3d.in you can show your 3D models to anyone – no Flash or plugins required. Nathan Letwory writes: p3d.in beta is now open for everyone! p3d.in is an online visualization tool that allows...

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One Day

6 February, 2012 - 11:00
By Vance Bowman Jr. Vance writes: This is my first post of a final work of mine. I’ve picked at it for the better part of year as a Blender/Luxrender Learning project. I’ve certainly...

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Developer Meeting Notes, Fabruary 5, 2012

6 February, 2012 - 09:52
Blender 2.62 is in BCON4 now (testbuilds, only essential bugfixes), and the developers are considering an expedited 2.63 release that contains only BMesh! Ton Roosendaal writes: 1) Blender 2.62...

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