Workshops!

talleres.JPGThere are so many Blender workshops and presentations being announced that we have to start bundling them. Here’s a list of events for the next two months:

  • Barcelona, November 5-9
  • Kingsport Tennessee, November 9,10
  • Vienna, Austria, November 24
  • Porto, Portugal, December 8/9 and 15/16

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Design the BlenderNation Header

header-3.jpgAfter all the tranquility of the last two headers I figured we could use a little more action this week. The one I selected is by Jean Sébastien Guillemette [X-Warrior]. It’s an oldie, but it’s also one of my all-time Blender art favorites, so I’m happy to feature it here ;-) Congratulations, Jean Sébastien! Your image will be on the site until next week.

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Oct 28th: Blender Presentation in Florence, Italy

quifree.jpgRiccardo Covino (jazzroy) and Davide Vercelli (UncleZeiv), two active members of the Italian Blender community, will be hosting a 2 hour presentation on Blender in Florence, Italy, on Sunday October 28th. The meeting, titled “Animation and Freedom: Computer Graphics, 3D, Special Effects and Free Software”, is part of the Quifree.it track on free software within the Creativity Festival.

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Sun to render Peach!

rt1thumbnail.jpgExciting news! Sun Microsystems has agreed to donate processing power to render the Blender Foundation’s new open-movie venture, Peach! The corporation has granted the project free hours of computing time on their supercomputing network network.com. This will enable far faster rendering and allow the team to build more-complex scenes than they might have otherwise! See more on the official Peach blog.

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