On Thursday, may 24th, Dolf Veenvliet, Sacha Goedegebure and Ton Roosendaal will be speaking at the Blender Event 2007, at the Selexyz bookstore in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Ton, Sago, Macouno @ Blender Event 2007
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Blender.org Gallery Updated (Finally!)
First, before saying anything, please allow me to publicly apologize for the extreme delay in updating the gallery on Blender.org. I slipped up and missed the March update and for that I’m sincerely sorry. I won’t let that happen again. That said, there have some really great submissions in the last two months! The gallery has been updated and you can see how much good work is coming out of our community. The current gallery page has work from April and here’s a direct link to the March gallery. Which ones are your favorites?
Open Material Repository
The Open Material Library is a new Blender material repository and even though it’s still in beta (in good web 2.0 fashion), I think we may have a winner here!
Open Source CGI and Multimedia Tools, Sofia, Bulgaria
A training session on Open Source CGI and Multimedia Tools will take place in Sofia Bulgaria over one week from the 14th till the 20th of May.
Topics and Software:
- 3D CGI – Blender, GIMP, Voodoo tracker
- Post-production – Blender, Cinelerra
- Audio production – Ardour, Cinelerra
- Hardware setup, Tools for renderfarms control – Dr. Queue, Cinelerra
- Usage of collaborative software – Subversion, Track
There is a participation fee of €1000 that includes the training, accommodation and meals. Upon request there are also scholarships available. The training is targeted to artists working in the fields of 3D CGI, post-production, video editing, animation, advertising special effects and sound engineering. Application forms and more information on www.tosmi.org.
Blender 2.44 Released
“Blender 2.44 was intended to be an upgrade release, mainly for plenty of bug fixes, but the developers took the effort of adding at least a few interesting new features.”
Now there’s an understatement.
Blender 2.44 Splash Screen Revealed
Although you never know with Open Source software (“it’ll be ready when it’s ready”), it looks like the release of 2.44 is near. For now, all we can report on is that the new 2.44 splash screen has been committed to CVS (or rather to SVN, as the developers are in the middle of a switch to the new version management system). The new splash is designed by @ndy, who seems to have a thing for gecko’s ;-)
Blender Trainings in Vienna
Today you can attend a Blender workshop in Vienna, Austria. Read more.
Ubuntu Studio Released
Yesterday a new distribution of Linux that’s designed for media production was released: Ubuntu Studio. Unlike the distribution it’s based on, Ubuntu Studio is not a “Live CD” distro. Rather, it’s designed to run close to the metal and take as much advantage of your hardware as possible. It sports an impressive list of bundled applications for audio production, graphics creation, animation, and even some video. Of course, Blender 2.43 is prominently included.
2007 Blender F1 Challenge Deadline
Today is the deadline for the 2007 Blender F1 Challenge. Read more.
Projects.blender.org SVN Migration
There seems to be some spring cleaning and rearrangement around Blender these days. An announcement regarding projects.blender.org has been made by Ton Roosendaal.
