James Chronister wrote:
I will be running 3 classes again next month.
There will be some introductory Blender 3D design classes offered through the Central Dauphin School district located in suburban Harrisburg, PA again this summer. The CD Summer “Academy†is designed for teachers within the district to fulfill in-service requirements, but administration has graciously allowed me to open these classes to individuals outside the district.
Have you ever manage to simulate human skin, only with Blender materials? An artist from the Blenderartists forums, called Pixelvore, has made some incredible experiments with SSS and Nodes to simulate human skin, and the results are amazing!
For those who have been hoping for a conference here in the USA, I am excited to announce that the Kingsport Art Guild will be hosting a 2nd day Blender Conference here in scenic Kingsport, Tennessee on August 2, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 3rd, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, 2008. This conference will include mini work shops and tutorials on various intermediate and advanced techniques used in Blender. Much of the focus will be on some of the newer features of version 2.46.
With Bart on his much needed sabbatical, I will be stepping in to help keep BlenderNation running. However, I do not have the time to write articles everyday and would like your assistance. It was Bart’s goal to give you at least two or more articles per day, but the reality is that this is an unpaid job, so while there are several Writers “on staff”, family and job commitments come first and the contribution of articles is therefor sporadic, thus putting pressure on Bart.
So where do you the reader come in to help out?
Recent events in my life (a baby, and starting my own company) and on this site have made me decide it’s time to put some distance between myself and the Blender community. I find it too hard to motivate myself for the huge amount of time I need to put in this project every day. So, I’m stepping down for at least a month, maybe longer, maybe permanently. The site is in the more than capable hands of our team of editors now!
All the best,
Bart
Robert Schober, whom we know from ‘Dear Valentine‘ and ‘Machines‘, has produced a new video for Mastodon.
I just closed the commenting for the Microsoft Support thread as I think we’ve seen all the angles of this discussion. In addition, I pulled the OOXML post. Kernon meant well, I’m sure of that, but it’s only putting oil on the fire right now.
I can’t even begin to explain how disappointed I am by the attitude in this community – I can only hope it reflects the opinion of the minority or else I’m wasting my time here.
Microsoft’s Open Source support has recently contacted the Blender developers regarding their file format support. Groklaw picked it up and wrote an interesting piece on it.
Here’s a short tutorial that’ll explain how to create some rather realistic twirling smoke.
Ton just posted the following dates on the Peach blog:
