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 »

Danish high school students worked intensively for an entire week, learning how to create a game from scratch. Now the results are available online. The participants have chosen to distribute the games under open source licenses, to give everyone a chance of seeing how it all works. Read the rest of this entry »