BlenderArt Magazine – Issue #20 just published.  And check out the new website.

Inkscape News – Linux Fund has partnered with Inkscape developer Milosz Derezynski to improve the text tool by boosting rendering in font selector, providing numeric control over kerning and fixing several outstanding bugs. Milosz is already working actively on the project.

Blender 2.5 Animation Test – From Michael Fox, AKA Blenderlabrat.

SVGSlice – An Inkscape add-on that cuts and saves a portion of your Inkscape art.  Very usefull for web design.

Bits of Blender #35-37 – After a long absence these short vidcasts are back with three new episodes.  Bits of Blender are video tutorials of some basic Blender functions.

Openfootage.net – A great website offering free high resolution video and textures.  The downloads are under a Creative Commons license that allows you to use for commercial and non-commercial uses.

Blender for Dummies – The book is now in stock at the Blender E-Shop.

Blender 2.5 Development Tour v.3 – Blender Labrat has posted the third video tour of what’s new in the historic Blender 2.5.

Well, technically, they are going to FLOSSify a current textbook geared towards Adobe Creative Suite.  By FLOSSify, they intend to convert the text and examples of a book from closed software to Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS).  The book in question is Digital Foundations produced by Michael Mandiberg and Xtine Burrough (http://digital-foundations.net/).  It’s a text book designed to teach software by teaching design, and currently uses Adobe CS as a basis.

The FLOSSify event is a community project being held  Feb 6 – 8, in NYC.  All are welcome to participate.  See this blog post at FLOSS Manuals for more info.

In case you haven’t heard, FLOSS Manuals is a not-for-profit Foundation based in Amsterdam.  It’s aim is to increase the quality and quanity of free manuals about free software.  They already have an impressive collection on it’s website.

Blender guru and author Tony Mullen has added another notch to his belt.  Sybex is offering his third book, Mastering Blender, for pre-order on Amazon.com.  From Tony’s blog:

(My) third book,  Mastering Blender, is now available for pre-order on Amazon, and I expect it to start shipping before the end of March. I’m really excited about this one, which covers a wide range of intermediate and advanced topics. In addition to material on sculpting and retopo workflow, advanced texturing, video compositing and editing, the Blender game engine, and a host of other topics, this book also includes a complete introduction to Python scripting for Blender, starting with the very basics of Python. No programming experience is assumed (although Blender experience is definitely assumed!)

Tony is the author of two previous books: Introducing Character Animation with Blender, and Bounce, Tumble, and Splash.  These have proven to be excellent resources on Blender.

Mastering Blender is now available for pre-order here.