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Meet Ramiro the Ram! our new character, actually it is there since a while ago but now is time to put it in game. He is the male sheep, the Ram protector of all Mandy’s around, and will not hesitate in hitting if you get too close to them!

It's been available for two weeks or so now, and the hype has died down a little, but it is still worth mentioning the new animated movie feature, created with open source animation tool Blender - Big Buck Bunny. This is essentially the follow up production after the quite successful Elephant's Dream last year. Which I must admit to enjoying more than this latest effort. For more information about Big Buck Bunny, the Peach team or Blender, it's probably easiest to send you on your way with a fine collection of links:

Pencil is probably one of the easiest animation programs for children to learn. Kudos to the Pencil development team. They got a winner for the educational environment.

Attention computer animators -- if you've ever felt limited by working in three dimensions with tools like Blender, check out Pencil, an open source, cross-platform animation app that lets you create in glorious 2-D. Pencil mimics hand-drawn animation techniques, but it's easy to use and produces high-quality output.