Didn’t get to go to SIGGRAPH this year? Or maybe you’ve never been there and feel like you’ll probably never be able to go. Well, here’s your chance to see all of the great presentations and materials that you’ve missed!
This year’s Suzanne Award winners have been announced last Saturday Night, and all the winners received a new and improved transparent Suzanne statue (‘unbreakable’, according to Ton ;-)
So far, none of the Conference’s video material has been published to the web. From what I heard there were problems with the download.blender.org server – I’m hoping that as soon as that’s solved all the material will be put online, including the full Suzanne Awards presentation.
Last week I invited all of you to design a new BlenderNation header and we received quite a few excellent entries. Today I made my first selection: it’s the banner by Gustav the Mushroom. I selected it because it fits very well in the site design and I like the clean, mathematical 3D look. Congratulations Gustav! Your image will be on the site until next week.
Astute users of Microsoft 32-bit Windows may have noticed that Blender is never allowed to use more than 1.5 GB of memory. As Blender can often consume a lot of memory, this can be a severe limitation at times. In this short tutorial, user mpan3 explains what causes the issue, and how to correct it.
Today, Karl Kühberger is hosting a Blender Training in Vienna, Austria. More information.
LuÃs Belerique is preparing three introductory Blender workshops in Porto, Portugal in October and November. More information.
Dates: fri-sat-sun, 12-14 October
Today is the first day of the Blender Conference 2007. Unfortunately I’ll only be able to attend on Saturday so for today and Sunday we’ll turn to YOU, the audience for our report on the event.
A company from Poland used Blender to produce a series of technical animations and images, to demonstrate machines and processes at their web site.
“A racoon, alone in the woods, to the haunting sounds of ‘The Knife’. ”
This is the description of Adam Procter’s short ‘Doljer’, which has been accepted into the UK filmvestival Filmstock in Luton.
