Here's an interesting look into both Blender's past and it's future: In an excerpt from a discussion on IRC, Ton Roosendaal explains about Blender's existing DNA and upcoming RNA structures. DNA powers an often overlooked Blender feature - it's amazing backward compatibility. Thanks to DNA you can read Blender files back to version 1.00! Ton writes: Q: [...]

We got many concerned reports about BlenderArtists.org being down. I just talked to Roel BlenderArtists.org and he's currently working on the issue. We'll keep you informed of his progress. Go Roel! Update: they're back!

Mustafa Hamurcu is a Blender animator from Turkey. He shows his latest work with a small peek behind the scenes. It's simple and effective work - nice! Mustafa Hamurcu wrote: Hi my name is Mustafa HAMURCU. I am a graphic designer at Kayseri / Turkey. I use blender 3d for modelling, animating and rendering for this Tv advertisement. Blender [...]

Here's an impressive list of 73(!) websites that offer free texture resources. More will be added in the future. Daniel wrote: I have created a blog with a list of websites that offer free textures. The list as of right now has 73 links. I will update the list whenever someone comments on the post. Hope this [...]

Elye wrote: Hi, I've recently completed a new music video for some local rappers I know. I did all the animation in Blender, even though it's 2D (or 2.5D). Thought you might like to check it out! I certainly do :) Very nice and professional work, thanks for sharing!

Ivan Hoffmann (digitalh) has made a case study on a great compositing technique for turning a day shot into a night shot - and he had to do the compositing work in a short amount of time.  For all you filmmakers out there, here's your chance to learn more about this very useful "Day to [...]

The Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC) at the University of Westminster, London are test-driving their 250-CPU Grid. It's built around Blender and they're inviting YOU to render your work there. Zsolt Lichtenberger wrote: We are the Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC) at the University of Westminster, London. As the name suggest, we are interested in parallel computing, [...]

Sebastian König has posted a very nice time-lapse video in which he models, a wasp. It touches many techniques including subsurfaces, IK and even a spot of grease pencil sketching.

Francisco Ortiz sent in the following report: Brazilian institution SESC SP hosts a serie of events about Game Creation and Do It Yourself "D.I.Y". Events are free for all and includes workshops about open source and open hardware, performs, art exhibitions, games and much more: Blender 3D for example! :) We have workshops about the Game Engine [...]

An artist from Brazil called Leonardo Davi published on his blog, a great collection of tutorials about sculpting with Blender. The tutorial was meant to be his final project, for a degree in visual arts. In the tutorial he shows us how to model the head of a monster, in almost two hours of video. But, [...]