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Blender Art Mag #32 "Spring is Sprung" is online

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* Making 2D environments for the iPhone game Spires
* A videogame in few logic bricks
* Modeling an iPhone 4 with Modifiers
* Creating Plants Using Arrays
* CanTree – Online Tree Generator
* Blender 2.5 Materials and Textures Cookbook

Available as PDF with *.blend-files and now readable online at ISSUU (Flash required).

BlenderArt Mag #22 - Things that go bump in the night!

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the 22nd issue of the Blender Art Magazine is available. Again filled up with a lot of interesting things incl. new features of Blender 2.49:
* Articles/Tutorials on Tracks Creator
* Fun with Texture Nodes
* Water Tank
* KnowHow: Great Educational Resource
* Reviews: Creature Factory
* Making of:
- Arkor
- Cute Clown
- Cave Troll

... and much more.

BlenderArt Mag #21 - Look What I Can Do!

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A new issue of the Blender Art Magazine is available. This time it includes a lot of "Making of":
* Using Blender to Animate Your Family Photos
* Editing a Music Video in Blender
* Product Visualization
* Mystery of The BLEND
* Making of:
- Game Art for Project Aftershock
- Cricket and Friends See a Comet!
- Modeling and Rigging a Mechanical Model
- Making of the Sun
- Building Online Generators with Blender

Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs

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The Smashing Magazine published an interesting collection of logo designs. Well done again!
Check out their older posts too:
* 58 Creative Logos
* Creative Logos

BlenderArt Mag #20 - Make it! Bake it! Fake it!

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A new issue of the BlenderArt Magazine is available:
* Articles/Tutorials on Baking normal maps from a high poly model
* Big Bobby Car (Organic Surface Modeling)
* Normal Mapping in Blender
* Lighting and Film Making Tricks: Conveying
* MAKING OF: 'A Cassette Tape'
* MAKING OF: 'Dusting Off A Surprise'
* Bookreview - INTERVIEW: David Hickson - Blenducation
This time the website of the BlenderArt Magazine has a brand new look too!

Blanket Mag 14

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Blanket 14 is out., They described themeself as "a free PDF online magazine that is aimed at uncovering art, design and photography from the talented people who create it". Again interesting stuff at all.

A detailed GIMP review

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Ars Technica published a great review about GIMP 2.6 - quite interesting for those that didn't know much about GIMP. Thanks to mmiicc for the hint smile

BlenderArt Mag #19 - Rigging & Constraints

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A new issue of the Blender Art Mag is available now. Issue #19 is about "Features Articles/Tutorials on Rig a Boat’s Rigging, Perpetual Motion Machine Rigging, Caterpillar Soft Track, Animation Temporal Verification, KnowHow - Armatures aren’t just for Characters, KnowHow - Meshdeform Modifier & more…":
* Tutorial - To Rig a Boat’s Rigging
* Tutorial - Perpetual Motion Machine Rigging
* Tutorial - Caterpillar Soft Track
* Tutorial - Animation Temporal Verification
* KnowHow - Armatures aren’t just for Characters
* KnowHow - Meshdeform Modifier
and much more smile

Blanket Mag 12

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Today i discovered Blanket, they described themeself as "a free PDF online magazine that is aimed at uncovering art, design and photography from the talented people who create it". Interesting stuff at all.

Pimp your Desk - again

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Once i posted a link about two good wallpaper selections of the Smashing Magazine. Today Sebastian, member of the DEV3 team, droped me a link to Desktopography. Desktopography offers a really quite amazing collections of wallpapers - check it out!

Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art

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For those that loving funny sketches and art: Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art. Another goody of the Smashing Magazine.

50 Beautiful Movie Posters

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The Smashing Magazine didn't get tired of collecting artwork. This time they collected 50 beautiful movie posters.
My favorites are:
* Walk aline
* The Thing
* The Nightmare Before Christmas
* Unforgiven
* Man With One Red Shoe
* Perfume
* Mean Streets
* Sweeney Todd
As you see it isn't easy to pick just one in such a good selection smile

BlenderArt Mag #18 - Landscapes, Environments and Sets

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Again a new issue of the Blender Art Mag is available. It's described as "Every project needs an environment to exist in, some projects are all about the surroundings themselves. But it is often an area that gets short changed or overlooked. So this issue we take a look at various ways to create environments and backgrounds for your projects. We have collected a nice variety for your enjoyment.":
* Baking AO Maps for Terrain Using Blender 3D
* Game Physics and Paths
* CNC Machining with Blender
* Create Scenes with a Seamless Background
* MAKING OF: A Big City For A Game
* MAKING OF: A Fantasy Landscape
* MAKING OF: The Scene Of A Dream
and much more smile

50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks

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Cool Showcase

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If you do illustrations with Inkscape or Gimp and looking for inspirations you should check out Cool Showcase smile

BlenderArt Mag #17 - Lights, Camera, Action!

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The new issue #17 of the Blender Art Mag take a look at using Blenders post processing tools as well as explore some tips and tricks to make your lighting more impressive:
* Making lightsabers using Blender’s composite nodes
* 3 Strip Technicolor Conversion
* Baking Light Projection And Shadows
* Using the Sequence Editor
* Lighting: Plan it out
* Interview ‘Tony Mullen’
* Interview ‘Allan Brito’
* Book Review - Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery
and much more smile

Girls...

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The Smashing Magazine collected "50 Beautiful Feminine Illustrations and Artworks" - indeed another interesting collection.

Collections

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70 Beauty Retouching Tutorials

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The Smashing Magazine published a new article about retouching photos with Photoshop. I'm sure you can do that with Gimp too wink

Web Form Design Patterns

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The Smashing Magazine wrotes two interesting articles about Web Form Design Patterns:
Sign-Up Forms Part 1
Sign-Up Forms Part 2

There is an older article about creative web forms design too.