It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 23 of Blenderart Magazine.

The theme for this issue is “Epic Fantasy”.

Project Durian, with it’s talented team of artists, will be starting soon. And while we all wish we were part of the team, there is no reason why we can’t join in the fun.

So put on your modeling caps and start creating your own epic fantasies.

We are looking for:

• Fantasy/Action Images, Animations and Games
• Characters (fantasy action heroes/villains)
• Monsters & Dragons
• Castles & Fantasy theme environments

So fire up your imagination and send us your best stuff.

Also wanted, great shaders, materials and node setups for great looking materials and effects.

Articles

Send in your articles to sandra
Subject: “Article submission Issue # 23 [your article name]”

Author guidelines are available here.

Gallery Images

As usual you can also submit your best renders _based on the theme_ of the issue. As the theme of this issue is “Epic fantasy”, we are looking for Fantasy images. Please note if the entry does not match with the theme it will not be published.

Send in your entries for gallery to gaurav
Subject: “Gallery submission Issue # 23″

Note: Image size should be of 1024x (width) at max.

Last date of submissions August 5, 2009.

Good luck!
Blenderart Team

Welcome to Issue #22, “Things That Go Bump in the Night”

Halloween is traditionally the time for spooky, scary fun, but “Things that go bump in the Night” happen all year round. So let’s have some fun with and explore things that give us those delightful creepy shivers.

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:

• Tutorial – Tracks Creator
• Tutorial – Fun with Texture Nodes (Here is the missing link for this tutorial)
• Tutorial – Water Tank
• Making – Arkor
• Making – Cute Clown
• Making – Cave Troll
• KnowHow – Great Educational Resource

And Lot More…

Direct Download link: Issue 22 Download

Halloween is traditionally the time for spooky, scary fun, but “Things that go bump in the Night” happen all year round. So let’s have some fun with and explore things that give us those delightful creepy shivers.

So visit the dark recesses of your imaginations and give us a little scare!!!

We are looking for:

• Lighting for spooky, eery or night scenes
• Characters that are spooky, creepy or scary
• Images, Animations, Games that evoke a sense of dread/spookiness/eery caution

Also wanted, great shaders, materials and node setups for great looking materials and effects.

Articles

Send in your articles to sandra
Subject: “Article submission Issue # 22 [your article name]”

• • Author guidelines are available here.

Gallery Images

As usual you can also submit your best renders _based on the theme_ of the issue. As the theme of this issue is “Things that go bump in the Night”, we are looking for images that give us a nice little scare. Please note if the entry does not match with the theme it will not be published.

Send in your entries for gallery to gaurav
Subject: “Gallery submission Issue # 22″

Note: Image size should be of 1024x (width) at max.

Last date of submissions June 5, 2009.

Good luck!
Blenderart Team

Blender provides numerous tools and techniques for creating cool and unusual projects.

So in this issue we take a look at how Blender artists make creative use of those tools to do things you just might not have thought of.

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:

• Tutorial – Using Blender to Animate Your Family Photos
• Tutorial – Editing A Music Video in Blender
• Tutorial – Product Visualization
• Making – Game Art for Project Aftershock
• Making – Cricket and Friends See a Comet!
• Making – Modeling and Rigging a Mechanical Model
• Making – Making of the Sun
• Making – Building Online Generators with Blender
• Article – Mystery of The BLEND

And Lot More…

The theme for this issue is ‘Look What I Can DO!!!’.

This issue we are going to focus on projects made in Blender. There is no restriction as to what kind of project you can submit.

We are looking for artists and coders to submit articles and tutorials based on and describing your latest cool projects.

In taking a look at various artists and their current projects, showcasing what is possible in Blender, we are looking for:

• Stills Images
• Animations
• Games
• Python scripts
• Coding contributions
• Commercial and personal projects

Have you been dedicating all your free time to a “pet” blender project, we want to hear about it.

Also wanted, great shaders, materials and node setups for great looking materials and effects.

Articles

Send in your articles to sandra
Subject: “Article submission Issue # 21 [your article name]”

• Author guidelines are available here.

Gallery Images

As usual you can also submit your best renders _based on the theme_ of the issue. As the theme of this issue is ‘Look What I Can DO!!!’, the guidelines are open, so round up your best amazing renders for submission. Please note if the entry does not match with the theme it will not be published.

Send in your entries for gallery to gaurav
Subject: “Gallery submission Issue # 21″

Note: Image size should be of 1024x (width) at max.
Last date of submissions April 5, 2009.

Good luck!
Blenderart Team

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.

While re-designing our site he also fixed the semi random “corrupt file” problem that has been plaguing us for some time. In addition to a new look and site code cleanup, Nam has also added a great new service, sure to be of use for many of you. Blenderart Magazine can now be readily read online. Hows that for service. Now you can get your Blenderart fix without waiting for the file to download.

To read Blenderart Magazine online, just click on the “READ IT ONLINE” text link found right underneath each issue title. Couldn’t be easier. So wander around and check out our new look and features.

While it’s true that Blender has a powerful selection of tools, sometimes the “fake” or “cheat” is often preferred for various reasons. Time and hardware limitations, being the biggest reasons for using a “fake” or “cheat”. Then there are the tools that actually are the “fake”, such as Normal maps. So in this issue we take a look at some great techniques for baking normal maps, lighting and how to create some great effects.

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:

Tutorial – Baking normal maps from a high poly model.
Tutorial – Big Bobby Car (Organic Surface Modeling)
Tutorial – Normal Mapping in Blender
Tutorial – Lighting and Film Making Tricks: Conveying
MAKING OF: ‘A Cassette Tape’
MAKING OF: ‘Dusting Off A Surprise’
INTERVIEW: David Hickson – Blenducation
And more . . .

Discuss it @ blenderartists.org

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.