We are pleased to announce our first Turkish translated issue (Issue 15).

And while we are at it, now seems like a great time to point out that BAM is available in several languages, thanks to the volunteer efforts of the translation teams.

We appreciate all the hard work that the translation teams put into providing translated issues.

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Blenducation is offering an exciting new 3 part class by none other than Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb) of Montage Studio. Jonathan is going to be presenting Modeling a Human.

Part one is 3 hours long and will cover Modeling techniques in Blender.

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As Blender art magazine enters its 4th year of publication, (yes it really has been that long), the time has come to adjust our release schedule. While the staff as well as the contributing artists and authors make every attempt to hit our release schedule, life does have a way of interfering. Especially when we are all volunteers.

It took three years to knock us completely off schedule, with our last issue being released almost three weeks late. So in order to get us back on schedule without affecting the quality of our magazine, we will start a new schedule beginning with issue #20.

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Blenducation is launching “Real time online classes”.

First off you need to register at the site and then you can sign up for offered classes, most of which will be free with a few being offered for a small fee.

(There are complete instructions on the site explaining the sign up process).

Knowing that interested participants are in a number of different time zones, Dipingo included a time zone setting on his site, that once set to your time zone, allows you to see when the classes are offered “your time”. Very handy indeed for those like me who are forever trying to make time conversion more complicated than it really is. Read the rest of this entry »

Blenderart Magazine has released quite a few issues and at this point it can be a little hard to remember where you saw what article. Well fromlugdunum has created a mindmap to help you locate just the issue you were looking for.

You can check it out here.

He has also added an online pdf view of the BAM mindmap too.

Adam Kidd recently contacted me to let me know about his new website, Totally Blended, and that we had been given an award.

From Adam:

I Am pleased to announce in our first week of service that Blender Art Magazine has been awarded the first of our “Friend Of Blended” awards, an award that goes to a site or organization that goes above and beyond in simplifying affordable Technology (in this case, Open Source) in a manner of high Quality or provides exceptional web content from home.  The first Recipients are: Read the rest of this entry »

Juan C. García wrote and informed me that not only has his Spanish translation team been hard at work, but he sent us issue #1. Read the rest of this entry »