Why hello! This past week has been a bit strange with a nearly empty studio. Nobody’s here to tell me how to feel! In keeping with the tradition of dull and infrequent ‘directorial addresses’, here’s an update from headquarters. Thanks for watching. Music by Jan Morgenstern. –Colin

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 weekend of July 16th, Hand Turkey Studios again entered into the Richmond 48 Hour Film Project with the insane goal of [...]

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 post some blends with the setup of lights and comp on BlenderArtists later. Some Facts:) The production time was 3 months, 3 students work on full time and another 3 [...]

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

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 meeting on July 28th at 6pm. The address is 2300 4th Ave S. Suite 242A Moorhead MN, 56560 Find us on facebook. Everyone is welcome to come!

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 Pablo Carrano writes: I’m writing because we want to share with you the cheerfulness of having made the game PlayEnglish using Blender and Gimp for the characters. At [...]

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]. On Saturday, July 31st there’s a BarCamp in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Andres Nader will host a session on Blender.

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’ statement: The stock textures and any other photographs available for download on this site are completely free and may be used in commercial or non-commercial applications. The only exception is that they [...]