Spot anything slightly familiar on planet-positive.org ?

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Oliver Perfumo has made a nice demo reel worth checking out. It features his work from the past 3 years, set to a pretty catchy song. The T-Rex sequences are particularly impressive. Oliver...

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The Japanese Blender community is planning a party on Saturday, November 29th. Tony Mullen writes: I wanted to let people know about an upcoming event in the Japan Blender community. On Saturday,...

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ResourceSpace is a web-based, open source digital asset management system, with a twist: it will dynamically render previews of Blender files, making it a great solution for Blender Asset Management....

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The Excellence Center in Free Software of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), has created an on-line course of 20 hours to teach the use Blender. The course starts at February 23rd, and costs €60 for...

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CGChallenge have announced their 23rd challenge, themed 'Steampunk Myths and Legends'. Steampunk is the application of advanced steam age technology to a modern or science fiction...

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Here's something we don't *nearly* write enough about on BlenderNation: the Aqsis RenderMan compliant renderer, and the MOSAIC plugin that allows Blender and Aqsis to work together. Eric...

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Tamito Kajimaya (T.K.) has created some test videos with Blender using the Freestyle renderer and he has come up with some great results! Tamito writes: As one of many people who grew up with the...

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Zac Duff won an internship at Good Game, a TV show in Australia, and Blender played a big part in his workflow. A prototype of the game will be released later this week. Zac reports. Zac wrote: On...

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Yep, that's right. The shiny new Apricot DVDs are ready and are now at the Blender Institute, arriving today from the printing factory. Ton explains on the Apricot blog page that tomorrow the...

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Earlier this week the German Blender magazine 'Blenderzin' had his (her?) its first birthday. Congratulations! For German readers, it might be worth knowing that they also have a German...

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The texture node system is a project to integrate a node-based texture generator into Blender. Rob wrote: Hi, your readers might be interested to know that texture nodes have been committed to SVN...

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The HandsOn project of the Department of Media Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology is researching optical tracking and 3D user interfaces for modeling and animation. They make heavy...

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An updated version of William Reynish' UI analysis (25 pages, PDF) is now available. Ton Roosendaal writes: William has updated the paper he presented during the Blender Conference. He was very...

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Gunter Hannig aka zapman has written an excellent in-depth review of Carsten Wartmann's 'Blender DVD Seminar'. Carsten 'calli' Wartmann, author of several articles and books...

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Pawel Cislo has written a tutorial on the modeling process of his model 'Jaguar MK2'. Otávio "tatasoka" has translated it to Portuguese and hosts it together with the original...

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The first Colombian Blender event (as far as we're aware) is coming up on November 13th! The 12-hour 'Dia Blender' has free entry to the workshops, shows and conferences. John...

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Here's a cool demonstration of Daniel 'Pepeland' Martinez Lara's Blender setup and of the new grease pencil feature. A preview of the video that he's editing is available as...

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The three winners of the British 'Dare to be Digital' contest have been nominated for the prestigious BAFTA award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). One of them is the Blender...

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Mal from CanDo Interactive is hosting a Blender game engine contest. The deadline is March 16th, and there's a nice lineup of prizes. From the contest page: This competition is being run to...

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