Source: www.blender.org 

One of most waited versions of Blender 3d has been released.

Many features included, thanks to peach project.

You can download this new version of Blender 3D here.  

"Blenderguide is a web directory for the free software 3D animation program Blender. The main goal of blenderguide.org is to collect and categorize the various websites that deal with Blender."

It´s an excelent place to find out new cool Blender 3D sites. 

Enviado por Ana Carolina Prates

Foi publicado um novo livro sobre Blender, em português, especificamente sobre modelagem de personagens.

É um trabalho de autoria de José Fernando Reinicke, publicado pela editora Novatec.

Veja a sinopse do livro enviada por Ana Carolina Prates, da Novatec. 

This is a great work of a Brazilian guy found on Procedural forum.

It´s an interactive model of a Factory, where you can see all the factory´s buildings, walk around, and more!

Click the picture below to see a screen shot: 

If you need python24.dll, download it here: http://www.blendermasters.com/cms/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,21/Itemid,32/

A Brazilian company, Nova Mídia, made this TV advertisement using only Blender 3d and Liquid Edition for post production.

The main idea was to make a colorful ad for printer cartridges.

Render in Blender using toon shading techniques and particle system.

The results are really cool.

Some more information:

Direction and Creation: Daniel Ludwig

Animation and compositing: Teofilo Macedo

Client: Star PrintProdutora e

Company: Nova Mídia - www.novamidia.pro.br

Duration: 30"

Softwares used: Blender + Liquid Edition

Blender 2.46 RC1 is avaible for download. Many interesting resources were added in this version because of the Peach project, including the new particle system, UV mapping and muc more.

With the nickname of "Peach version", this version brings improvements on sequencer, the Blender video editor.

Sent by: Wille Marcel

I´m doing a research about how Blender has been developed and also about Blender users look like. This reseacrh aims understand the several issues that made Blender a state-of-art software and how much users contribute in its development. Visit  http://pesquisablender.myurl.com.br and join the research!

Tiago Allen wrote to BlenderMasters saying he has done a translation to Brazilian Portuguese of Masonry plugin.  You can create easily walls, sidewalks and other interesting things.

As he said: