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Blender 2.68, Text and Effect Clip. The product of two separate tutorials on www.blenderguru.com. Andrew Price does some of the best tutorials for Blender, go check out his channel and website.

How to Create a Lightning Storm
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/how-to-create-a-lightning-storm/#comment-1047918296

How to Make Metallic Text
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/how-to-make-metallic-text/

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