July 15-16th 2006 – The first ever Crystal Space Conference in Aaechen Germany.
We all love seeing great animations being posted on-line or in films. Many of us even create our own to test our skills or to do a job. Though as we watch the subtle movements of the scene, we sometimes forget the other senses that bring it all to life. In particular, sound. Tim (Room335) points us to The Freesound Project allowing any animator add a sound to the silence of animation.
Blender features heavily in issue 80 of the international magazine for 3D artists, themed around open source graphics software. It even features @ndy’s work ‘Moon Man’ on the cover! We were in touch with 3D World’s editor Jim Thacker who gave us an overview of the issue and who generously supplied us with some PDF samples of articles.
We came across a neat site about Simon Spartalian (a student at the Art Institute of Chicago) and Mike Beradino (a recent graduate of the Art Institute) who are using Blender to offer 3D “prints” of Second Life avatars via a milling process. Blender for milling? I had to ask for more from Simon and Mike who together are Recursive Instruments.
The Blender F1 Challenge Results are in. Curtis Smith, who has been organizing this yearly event for six years now, looks back at this year’s competition.
Jason van Gumster (Groo) writes:
I’m speaking at TriLUG and I will be showing Elephants Dream during the presentation. Assuming this meeting follows the trend of other TriLUG meetings (according to their website – www.trilug.org), it will be at 7:00PM at Red Hat Headquarters.
If you are a laptop user, you might be frustrated with the lack of easy access to the number pad when you want to quickly navigate from the camera, the front, the top, or the side views. Thanks to mugwah, laptop users can finally use the number pad without remapping keys* thanks to a python script.
Developers of the GPL game Nexuiz are looking for modelers, and who better qualified than a blenderhead?
Chronoh over at Yafray.org recently posted a header design contest in the forums for the entire Yafray community. According to the thread, the Yafray site will be the splash area for several lucky header image designers. The images will be displayed randomly for an entire week.
“Game Cultura” is about games and open source development and its relation with Brasilian culture. The event started June 29 and goes to August 30. People have free access to join and participate this event thats is being realized inside a cultural center named “SESC Pompéia.” Once inside they are able to play a lot of games (some of them open source, others not) and participate in a lot of workshops. The workshop’s subjects are all about using open source tools.Activities/workshops related to Blender on July 11-14, 18-19, and 27-28. The total of Blender workshop activities: 28 hours. This total will be distributed in two workshops aimed for adults and one for children. The idea is to teach people how to use Sharpconstruct and Blender as a “combo” tool.
You can access the general schedule here.
