Open Source 3D Graphics Conference (Argentina)

libre.pngFrom the Plumiferos site:

Manos Digitales Animation Studio, Fundación Vía Libre, and Blender Foundation will realize a conference about 3D animation with open source tools, where they will show material from Plumíferos and the short film Elefants Dream, completely developed with open source software. Elephants Dream director, Bassam Kurdali, and Andy Goralczyk will be present. The conference will take place on August, 29th, at 7 pm, on Centro Cultural Cooperación (1543, Corrientes Av, Buenos Aires City, Argentina).

More information can be found here (Spanish).

Blender at Red Hat High

breakfast kopie.JPG[By Jason "Groo" van Gumster (Fweeb)]

Last month (July 9-15) in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat held a summer tech camp for 52 rising 8th and 9th-grade students. At this camp, students could choose to learn how to use open source software in one of four tracks: web design, video, audio, and 3D modeling/animation. Blender was the application of choice for the 3D track. While students in the other three tracks were instructed by Red Hat employees, the 14 students in the 3D course were taught by three blenderheads who volunteered from the community: Jonathan Williamson (mr_bomb), Jeffery McGregor (Enzoblue), and Jason “Groo” van Gumster (Fweeb).

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