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Here is the report of the second day of BlenderDay/2011. When I went to school at 8 o’clock in the morning, I thought it would be a bit more relaxed, but it was the exact opposite. At 10 o’clock Oliver Schömann started the second day with a great presentation about character sculpting. A real good start and perfect preparation for …

Hey everyone, the German Blender conference BlenderDay is very happy to announce the “BlenderDay Award 2011″ Initiated by Francesco Faranna from Breitbild Visual Effects, you can win cool prizes like a Geforce GTX 560 TI with 2GB of RAM, perfect for Cycles. In total the prices are worth more than 500 Euro! Everyone can participate, you don’t have to be …

Today I am going to show you, how you can change settings globally. You want to make all materials in your blend file shadeless? Or add a modifier to all objects? Instead of doing that manually (which can take a lot of time) you can write a few lines of code, and you’re done! Curious? Here is the answer! Don’t …

This years Google Summer of Code has begun. Since Monday, 17 students are working on great new features and improvements for Blender, more than ever before! Check out the full list of all projects: code.blender.org This year for the first time, some students share a branch together. This way, they already learn how to work in a team environment, long …

Hey everyone, The impact of the new Render Engine “Cycles” was/still is huge! There is already a very long thread on blenderartists about it (86 pages at the moment of writing this article). It’s amazing to see the great images people are already producing with it, keeping in mind that the Engine is still in “Alpha” stage. So, it’s not …