This is one more way to build a fireplace. You can get a good look rendering the fire using particles, halos, alpha and force fields.

"Welcome to osalt.com open source alternative - your quick guide to the best open source software."

This is the message in the front page of osalt.com, a page with lots of suggestions of software opensource / commercial.

If you want to discover a software opensource to use instead of your commercial software, there is the right place. 

The forum was updated!

Now a number of new categories were included to separate subjects, talks, and every text wrote in the forum.

I invite everyone to start using of the forum, a cool section of BlenderMasters.com

Enjoy! 

This tutorial shows how to change the material during an animation. Good effect to change characters colors during the movie of simply to make them dissapear.

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Basta saber um pouco de arquitetura. Não sabe muita coisa? Procure aqui no site que você encontrará algumas informações de como começar.

Maiores informações em http://forum.insidegames.com.br/ForumVBulletin/showthread.php?t=143

Abraços 

The 13 videos from uncle ilmo may help you if you are starting your path in blender.

In this link you will found more than videos. You will found some intermidiate tutorials.

I hope you like

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tioilmo&p=r

Today we finished a pre-alpha version of the rendermaster. This is a special page to render your .blend files uploading them to the server and downloading the result after.

The advantages are many, because you don't need to wait for hours with you computer busy, the server does this work for you and you only download the image.

It's a new project and needs a lot of improvements, but the cool part is that you can render pictures today!

See the work on http://www.blendermasters.com/rendermaster  

I think all of us had a time trying to let our model more realistic, but never we get the result.

With this in mind, I'm giving this two links with libraries of materias made by Blender users.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65719

http://repository.parastudios.de/

Enjoy!

Released today, Blender 2.44 has a lot of solved bugs and cool new features, like the waited SSS to make colors like skin.