Saturday was as exciting as Friday, if not more so. To start off, most of yesterday’s streams are now available for download via BitTorrent. Please check the downloads page on Blender.org and remember to leave your client open when it’s finished so other people can benefit from it. The Art Festival video will probably be online tomorrow – the guys here are working hard to make that a reality.
A group of Blender enthousiasts is meeting up in Warren, Michigan on Thursday, October 19 at 7:00PM and Saturday, October 21 at 1:00PM.
Honeycomb, the organiser, writes:
1) Location
National Coney Island
30140 Van Dyke Avenue ( between 12Mile and 13Mile )
Warren Michigan
2) Time and Date
Thursday, October 19 at 7:00PM
and
Saturday, October 21 at 1:00PM
Come to one or both or neither but each meeting should cover the topics below at a minimum.
3) Meet and Greet
No laptop, no internet required. If you have one bring one if not it’s really no big deal right now. Lets just get together.
3) What a user group is and what we could do will be the topic of the meetings. It’s our group so we could do anything related to Blender and 3D.
4) I will have my laptop so I can begin to take notes and document some ideas we all come up with. All in all this is supposed to be the creation of something fun ( after the all the planning is done ).
I’ll be the guy with the Blender (a real one and possible mascot ) on the table. I hope to see as many of you guys and gals as possible.
For more information, see this thread on BlenderArtists.
The first day of the conference is over and Rui and I had a blast talking to people and getting an interview from Angela. It’s 22:00 now, the Art Festival has started and we haven’t had dinner yet so I’ll only say – enjoy the Conference Journal!
Don’t ask my why the organisation didn’t publish this, but you can follow the Conference LIVE via streaming video and the quality is *awesome*. Speakers use a microphone and they’re mixing the camera stream with the computer display at the right times.
The fourth Blender Conference will be held from october 20-22 in the Waag, Amsterdam. Read the details here.
Once again Colin Litster will be showcasing the flexibility of Blender. This time it will be at the Blender conference. If you are one of those lucky enough to get tickets to the conference then you will get to see Colin demonstrating how to use Blender’s nodes in a workshop on Sunday 22nd October, from 1330 to 1500. Colin has given us an exciting preview of what to expect at his website, Cogfilms.
The Blender Conference begins tomorrow and I’ll be there for three days, armed with my videocamera, microphone and laptop. As the organisation has already found enough people to help them record the sessions, I will be free to focus on giving a general impression of the event and on interviewing the attending Blender superstars.
Take a look at the Conference Program and let me know who YOU would like to see on camera and which questions you want me to ask them.
This is a magazine that I’ve received for almost a couple of years. It’s always a good quick read and has lots of info on new software. Also, there’s always a behind-the-scenes feature on the latest computer animated films and movie special effects. It’s certainly not Blender-specific but, I think it’s important to know what’s going on in the industry, outside of your own preferred sphere of activity.
The magazine focuses on innovative graphics technology and applications. Written for engineers, researchers, designers, and animators, CGW explores how leading-edge graphics techniques are used in CAD, architecture, scientific visualization, special effects, digital video, film, and interactive entertainment.
A group of Blender enthousiasts is meeting up in Warren, Michigan on Thursday, October 19 at 7:00PM and Saturday, October 21 at 1:00PM.
Honeycomb, the organiser, writes:
1) Location
National Coney Island
30140 Van Dyke Avenue ( between 12Mile and 13Mile )
Warren Michigan
2) Time and Date
Thursday, October 19 at 7:00PM
and
Saturday, October 21 at 1:00PM
Come to one or both or neither but each meeting should cover the topics below at a minimum.
3) Meet and Greet
No laptop, no internet required. If you have one bring one if not it’s really no big deal right now. Lets just get together.
3) What a user group is and what we could do will be the topic of the meetings. It’s our group so we could do anything related to Blender and 3D.
4) I will have my laptop so I can begin to take notes and document some ideas we all come up with. All in all this is supposed to be the creation of something fun ( after the all the planning is done ).
I’ll be the guy with the Blender (a real one and possible mascot ) on the table. I hope to see as many of you guys and gals as possible.
For more information, see this thread on BlenderArtists.
Greybeard has done it again with a great new tutorial on creating telephone cord in Blender. As with all of his video tutorials the care for details and quality have impressed us. If for anything, it is worth taking a look at this just for seeing how professional a video tutorial can be.
