In this Best of Tuts+ roundup you’ll learn how to simulate a sniper scope, design and code a flexible website, create an intense movie poster, create a golden vector compass, build a minigolf game with ActionScript 3.0, take sports photos like a pro, create a rocky video game terrain in Blender and get a useful introduction to home recording–among many other things! Let’s take a look.

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If you’re interested in making passive income from your 3d work – meaning you make something once, then sell it many times – we have an exciting announcement for you.

3dOcean is looking for talented 3D/2D artists to help set the standard for a new 3D online marketplace. Envato (the makers of Cgtuts+) are developing this site for all those who are looking for quality 3D stock and those who want to become authors in this field and earn money by selling their work online, again and again.

3dOcean will complement the existing Envato marketplaces ActiveDen, AudioJungle, ThemeForest, VideoHive and GraphicRiver. Read on to learn how you can get a head-start on the competition by joining the exclusive private Beta.

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The Tuts+ Network has teamed up with MySuiteStuff to hold a network-wide pillowriffic giveaway! One random commenter will be chosen to win a very cute app icon pillow. To increase your chances of winning some loot, make sure to visit each Tuts+ site and take part in each giveaway. Across the network, we’re giving away pillows for all the creative apps you know and love, including After Effects, Illustrator, Flash and Flex. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! Too easy.

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Here’s our collection of the Top 5 tutorials from each site in the Tuts+ network in August. Whether you want to design and code your first website, layer hip hop drums, design a mixed media masterpiece, illustrate a brain icon, make your own Adobe AIR application, model a lethal combat knife, take gorgeous HDR photos or create a gruesome tracked head wound in After Effects, you’ll find lessons on each – and much more – in this collection.

Hit the jump and learn to the max!

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Now our birthday celebrations are over, it’s time to reveal the two winners of the Tuts+ iMac giveaway. Winners were selected with the ‘true random’ number generator at random.org and have been notified via email. Hit the jump to see the results!

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Thanks to everyone who downloaded the Tuts+ Birthday Bundle. We hope you’re enjoying your presents!

Envato’s Birthday is over for this year, so the Tuts+ Birthday Bundle is no longer available. If you’ve come late to the party and are desperate for the files, you’ll get access to all of them (and hundreds more!) when you join our Plus program for just $9.

We’re kicking off three days of celebration at Tuts+ with a confetti-filled bang. Over the next three days we will be giving away two brand spankin’ new 20″ iMacs to two lucky Tuts+ readers. The first iMac will be won by 1 entrant who signs up to Plus before the end of Envato’s 3rd Birthday bash (midnight Friday the 21st of August, Australian Eastern Standard Time). The second iMac will be won by 1 currently subscribed Plus member. The faster you join, the better your chances of winning!

Read on to learn how to submit your entry and to find out what other great gifts we have planned as part of our 3rd birthday party.

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Today we kicked off a huge week at Envato (it’s our 3rd birthday soon, don’t you know?) with the launch of Phototuts+, our 8th site in the Tuts+ Network. There we’ll be covering everything from beginner to advanced photography tips and techniques, post-processing, lighting and how to use your equipment with expertise. If you’ve ever wished you could take nicer photos, or to bump your nice photos into professional-level territory, Phototuts+ was created to help you!

Hit the jump to learn more about Phototuts+ and its editor, David Appleyard.

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We’ve collected the top 5 tutorials and articles from each Tuts+ site in June, covering web development, Photoshop, vector art, audio production and music, After Effects, Flash and 3D. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the Tuts+ Network you’ve never seen before!

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Starting this month, Envato (the people behind Tuts+) will be giving away one free professional quality file from each of their marketplaces. This month you can download a gorgeous Modern Web UI Set, an AS2 XML Photo Gallery, a pack of 8 audio logos, a ‘Nice & Clean’ website template and a very cool After Effects Project File. You don’t need to sign up or jump through any hoops. Each file is very easy to download. Hit the jump to grab what you want!

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