Get ready for the Blender Conference 2009's "Suzanne awards and Animation Festival".  If you've made any animations using Blender, submit your work by October 12, 2009 to have your piece entered in the competition.  Winners will get a Suzanne Monkey Statue, some DVDS, and cash.  This is a good way for anyone to get their name out there, so if you need exposure, submit your work! Visit http://www.blender.org/community/blender-conference/festival-announcement/ for more info.

Have a good laugh at this video.  This is what could happen to the Marvel universe.

Heads up to all those artists in Chicago.  The second CGS Chicago Chapter meet up is being held on September 18 at 6:00pm.  It will be located in the Flashpoint Academy building.  There will be talks about the industry, meet people just like you and free food.  Don't miss it.

Are you a web application developer or do you enjoy customizing your personal website?  If you want your sites to have a high level of interactivity such as those found in Google's web apps or if you want your site to behave more like a standard local program sitting on your hard drive, you need to check out the awesome JavaScript library called: jQuery. It's very easy to set up.  Just download the library called "jquery-1.3.2.min.js" from http://jquery.com/.  Then include that file in your web page's source.  Once it's included in your web page, you can write simple JavaScript that can do very complex things including Ajax.  The framework makes writing scripts much easier.  For example, say you want a text box to have a value of "HelloWorld".  You can see how the old way below is cumbersome compared to the concise jQuery way. Old way: document.frmForm.textbox.value='HelloWorld'; jQuery way: $("#textbox").val("HelloWorld"); With jQuery, you also don't have to worry about your JavaScript working with different browsers as the library is cross-browser compatible.  You can write one set of JavaScript and be fairly sure that it'll work on all browsers. Check out some demos here: http://jqueryui.com/demos/ Download and learn from here: http://jquery.com

Nope, more like an interview with the director of Toy Story 3.  Lee Unkrich talks to Collider.com for a little Q&A.  Though no story plot has been revealed, the interview dwells on other things like upcoming toys, blue-rays for Monster's Inc and Toy Story 2.  Watch below for the interview.

Hey guys, just got this in my email a couple of days ago.  Marvel and Aniboom are having a contest with a grand prize of $10,000.  This is your chance to do something worth while.  The winner will have their work used as one of the digital comics. Here are the criteria:  Create motion in the comic(s) provided.  Use only what is given.  Cannot add or change the story in anyway.  Music, Voices, and Pages are provided.  You can do anything you want, just be creative and stick to the rules. There will be two phases to this contest.  Phase 1 will be to submit the first 7 pages of the comic(s) provided by October 5, 2009.  Five will be chosen and awarded $2,000 to continue to finish the comic.   Phase 2, the finalists and wildcard finalist(s) (yes if you didn't win in phase 1, you still have a chance of winning the grand prize) will compete for that prize. You must be signed on to Aniboom to compete.  Have fun and good luck.  More information visit HERE.