SIGGRAPH 2007 Interview with Bassam Kurdali

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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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    • jedihe

      That’s great!

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

      jedihe

    • myselfhimself

      hi thanks for the interview

    • Francisco Ortiz

      Bassam rulez!

    • Tony

      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.

    • http://www.rgbk.org Bmud

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

    • Clean3d

      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!

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

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

    • http://membres.lycos.fr/bobois IamInnocent

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

      Hats off to Bassam.

      :)

      J.

    • http://drumsofwar.110mb.com/ Felix_Kütt

      oooh! ~very slick!~ ;)

    • Robin

      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)

    • http://www.artificial3d.com @ndy

      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

    • GR8! (Dimitris Christou)

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

    • http://drumsofwar.110mb.com/ Felix_Kütt

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

    • horace

      wow, the mancandy video is fantastic! :)

    • http://www.kuehberger.net/blender carlinhos

      fantastic video! and funny too!!

    • RNS

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

      Thank you Bassam.

    • http://thinningpictures.googlepages.com/ LoMac

      Super!

    • Vassilios Boucer

      Amazing!!!!!

    • http://noneyet zied (zerox)

      Excellent

    • http://www.virgiliovasconcelos.com Virgilio Vasconcelos

      Bassam ROCKS! =D

    • http://www.virgiliovasconcelos.com Virgilio Vasconcelos

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

    • LohnS/Lee

      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 =)