So grab your copy today.
Also be sure to check out our gallery of wonderful images submitted by very talented members of our community.

Table of Contents:

• Making of – Circolino
• Making of – Going Retro With the BGE
• Making of – Blender in 2.5D Games
• Making of – Big Pixel
• Making of – Infinite Skies
• Making of – Pahelika Artwork
• Making of – Shootin’ Annie
• Making of – Mii School

And Lot More…

Special thanks to both groups for their dedication & translation skills, and for helping us reach out to more Blender users!

I have been monitoring the number of articles submitted for each issue and the time needed by the writers to complete their submissions and came to the conclusion that a little more time would be helpful. So as a test run, I released Call for Content early to see if more time helps both the writers and my staff out.

Sandra

This book touches on modeling, rendering, and animating realistic machines with Blender 3D.

Contents:
• Walk through the complete process of building amazing machines
• Model and create mechanical models and vehicles with detailed designs
• Add advanced global illumination options to the renders created in Blender 3D using YafaRay and LuxRender
• Create machines such as a handgun, a steam punk spacecraft, and a transforming robot
• & More!!!

View sample content from the book here (Chapter 6 ‘Steampunk Spacecraft’ 1.7mb PDF)

You can view details and pre-order the book at http://www.packtpub.com/blender-3d-2-49-incredible-machines

Other issues available in Spanish (#1),  (#2), (#3), (#4), (#6), (#7)

Translating is a time consuming labor of love and I’m sure they would appreciate any help from volunteers. You can contact the Spanish translation team at:

Spanish Translation Team Contact info:

Juan C. Garcia
jcggoviedo@gmail.com

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.

Here is a breakdown of the available issues / languages

French: Issues 1-12

French Translation Team Contact info:

Mickaël Guédon | ebrain
Créatif 3D freelance : www.mickaelguedon.com
Le Blender Clan communauté francophone sur Blender : www.blenderclan.org

Valerie Hambert (Atymnia)
v.hambert@free.fr

Spanish: Issues 1-4, 6

Spanish Translation Team Contact info:

Juan C. Garcia
jcggoviedo@gmail.com

German: Issues 9, 13

Turkish: Issue 15

BAM makes data sources available for interested translation teams / individuals. We also host the translated issues on our site if needed.

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

The cost of this live class is $20us per session and you get to ask questions!

Jonathan is one of the best anatomists in the Blender community. He has produced many amazing DVD’s and has extensive knowledge of the human form. Get ready to learn the best methods of developing a 3D character from sketch to final render including, Clothes, weapons and much more.

With the purchase of this class you will also get a FREE Link to the recorded Class for future reference.

David has also added some free classes for this week to help you get ready for Jonathan’s classes. He will go over the structure of good meshes.

So go sign up for your seat before they are all gone!

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.

We will still release every two months, but instead of releasing in the months of:

Nov, Jan, Mar, May, July and Sept,

we will now release in:

Feb, Apr, June, Aug, Oct and Dec.

That should get us back on track (well at least for the next three years. )

So next submission deadline will be Feb 5th with mag release at the end of Feb.

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.

Once you have signed up, you receive an email invitation with a link to join a “net meeting” room. That is where your class will take place. After you join the class, you see the instructor’s desktop and watch the lesson in real time as it is being taught. There is even a chat room, where you can talk to the other students as well as the instructor.

The first class (which has already passed, but may be offered again) was designed to be an informational “meet and greet”, to introduce how the classes would look and feel.

And it worked great. As Dipingo explained how the classes would work, we could see everything he was doing on his computer. The audio and speed of video update was good.

I can see enormous potential for this project. The ability to hold classes real time is a great way to get students from all over together in an interactive endearment.

The staff of Blenderart Magazine wishes Blenducation all the luck and sucess possible, and eagerly await more classes to be scheduled for our educational enjoyment.

 Sign up for classes here.