This week, we’re proud to announce several new translated issues of Blenderart Magazine. The French translation team has released issue #18 and the Russian translation team has released issues #24 & #25 now available for download on the issues page.

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

It would seem that  I have upset the order of the Blender universe by posting Issue #26′s Call for Content before we had released Issue #25. That was not my intention. Issue #25 is on schedule to be released in about a week or so. You have not missed it, it isn’t canceled. It is coming.

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

The French translation team has released another issue of Blenderart Magazine in French. Issue #17 ‘Lights, Camera, Action!’ or as they say in French ‘Lumières, Caméra, Action!’ is now available for download on the issues page. Blenderart Magazine would like to thank the French translation team for all their hard work and for being so dedicated to providing a French translation for the French community. This month we’ve seen the speedy work of the French translation team as it has been only several days ago since we last posted issue 16! We have no doubt that issue 18 is close at hand.

Packt Publishing, publisher of previously released book ‘Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings and Scenery‘, have announced that they will be releasing a new Blender book entitled ‘Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines‘ expected to be released sometime in November 2009. We’ll be receiving our copy shortly so look out for our review of the book in our December issue.

This book touches on modeling, rendering, and animating realistic machines with Blender 3D.
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The Spanish translation team has finished translating another issue (#9) of Blenderart Magazine.

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