bassam-1.jpgI was actually able to pry Bassam away fro the computer at the Blender booth to give an interview about his new Mancandy model and rigging system and his upcoming Blender Foundation training DVD.

In addition, I've included Bassam's video presentation at the SIGGRAPH Birds of Feather conference. Please note that this is a video, of a video screen and that the acoustics in the room had a bad echo, though I think you'll still enjoy it. I'm looking forward to getting the rig and DVD when they are released.
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22 Responses to “SIGGRAPH 2007 Interview with Bassam Kurdali”  

  1. 1 jedihe Edit Link

    That's great!

    I always like to read/watch Bassam explaining his techniques.

    jedihe

  2. 2 myselfhimself Edit Link

    hi thanks for the interview

  3. 3 Francisco Ortiz Edit Link

    Bassam rulez!

  4. 4 Tony Edit Link

    Bassam's a rigging genius. I can't wait for the DVD to come out. Speaking of rigging, has anyone tried out the new rigging tools? Heat-based weighting is amazing, and editing an armature deformed mesh works like a dream. Very exciting stuff.

  5. 5 Bmud Edit Link

    Wooooowww. That looks like it's going to be a really nice DVD. It's so pretty! :D

  6. 6 Clean3d Edit Link

    Ah, so now we know a bit more about the mysterious training DVDs mentioned on the Peach blog. Sounds very neat! :) Thanks for the interview!

  7. 7 Bart Edit Link

    That's going to be one awesome training DVD… Thanks for the great vids, Tim!

  8. 8 IamInnocent Edit Link

    Simply high class rigging… and fun animation, parts of it would have enhanced this year demo reel.

    Hats off to Bassam.

    :)

    J.

  9. 9 Felix_Kütt Edit Link

    oooh! ~very slick!~ ;)

  10. 10 Robin Edit Link

    Wow Bassam rocks!

    Great stuff he has going on. I love the way the blender foundation is ther for all us who wanna learn more :o)

  11. 11 @ndy Edit Link

    yes indeed, bassam is a genius! from what i've seen so far it's going to rock. cant wait to get the dvd! :)
    greez from the institute.
    .andy

  12. 12 GR8! (Dimitris Christou) Edit Link

    Amazing work!
    Is there (somewhere) a downloadable, better looking version of the Mancandy video?
    One of the best Blender vids I've seen! Congratulations!

  13. 13 Felix_Kütt Edit Link

    GR8! you can download a bit bigger version from the same revver site ;)

  14. 14 horace Edit Link

    wow, the mancandy video is fantastic! :)

  15. 15 carlinhos Edit Link

    fantastic video! and funny too!!

  16. 16 RNS Edit Link

    Bassam,did a fantastic job with the Rigging systems;it enable me to rig my charactors
    alot easier.

    Thank you Bassam.

  17. 17 LoMac Edit Link

    Super!

  18. 18 Vassilios Boucer Edit Link

    Amazing!!!!!

  19. 19 zied (zerox) Edit Link

    Excellent

  20. 20 Virgilio Vasconcelos Edit Link

    Bassam ROCKS! =D

  21. 21 Virgilio Vasconcelos Edit Link

    Talking about rigging…
    Check out the works of this guy:
    http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=4644160&postcount=1

  22. 22 LohnS/Lee Edit Link

    Bassam for president!!

    Was great to see him at siggraph, his rigs especially proog and emo which i checked after the movie production helped my rigging ability my a million times. Great to get him out there via BlenderNation =)

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