The Seattle Blender User Group is meeting again this Saturday. Reserve a seat now! Oscar Baechler writes: Seabug: The Seattle Blender User Group. One of the best places in the Pacific Northwest for...

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Two weeks ago we could watch a group of Blender artists work on a 48-hour project, live on video. Jason van Gumster presents the results and talks about the project. Jason van Gumster writes: On the...

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Daniel Martinez Lara writes: Everything: modelling, animation, illumination, the render is Blender Internal and all the comp is Blender too. I’m happy with the work of students :) I’ll...

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Michael wrote: “I saw a screenshot of Big Buck Bunny at the new Disney Research Institute in Zurich! The sighting is from Euronews”.

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Where is Fargo-Moorhead? Here, in Minnesota! Blenderheads will be meeting this Wednesday at 6pm. Richard Vaudrin writes: The first blender user-group meeting for the Fargo-Moorhead area will be...

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The Argentinian studio QB9 has published PlayEnglish, an educative adventure game that helps players both to learn English and develop their language skills while playing with their Sony® PSP. Juan...

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BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences). They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. [quote from Wikipedia]....

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Here’s a useful texture repository that popped up in a comment yesterday beneath our ‘List of free texture sites‘ blogpost. Enjoy! From their ‘legal stuff’...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHYtdM9PME Pawel Lyczkowski writes: I made this animation for my diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Graphic Design Department, 2010. Made with Blender...

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The Blender Foundation just released 2.53, the first ‘Beta’ of the Blender 2.5 series. While the excellent 2.50 release log has been updated with 2.53 features, there’s no...

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Blender is part of the itinerary of a week-long summercamp “Passeport Vacances” for teenagers in Switserland. Alain Mathez reports. Alain writes: I co-organise a day dedicated to Blender...

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Paul Caggegi writes: Bonus episode for July over at the Process Diary this month. Paul’s model is finally getting the detailing done. The next two months will also have bonus episodes: around...

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Notepad++ is an open source text editor for Windows. With Murat Egretli’s Python bindings, it becomes a nice tool for editing Blender Python scripts. Murat Egretli (Demohero) writes: Hi...

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Next Sunday, Blender users in Colorado will meet. Did you ever meet another Blender user in person? Why not set up your own Blender User Meeting! John R. Nyquist writes: Our third Colorado Blender...

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Will Blender 2.5 Beta be released this week? Current Projects Martin’s netrender is getting good testing from the 48h project, some issues identified are a need to rework library relinking and...

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Due to family circumstances I couldn’t make it to last night’s Sintel Pre-premiere. However, Ali Boubred has posted an excellent video impression of the event, and BlenderArtists’...

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The Blender Foundation will not have its own booth at SIGGRAPH this year. Instead, two ‘Birds of a Feather’ meetings will be held. During the ‘Blender Community Meeting’, Ton...

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A group of Blender artists are working hard to prepare a stunning animated short for the Richmond 48 Hour Film Festival.  The timer has already started and the team is super-excited as the project is...

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simon.broggi writes: Hello++ Here’s a short film about an interactive projection maped onto the facade of a castle. The crowd was able to grow orchids up the facade, feed pollen to its...

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The latest issue of Blenderart Magazine focuses on Blender 2.5. Sandra Gilbert writes: Welcome to Issue #28, “Blender 2.5+” Blender 2.5 has been out and fairly stable for a while now, so in this...

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