Friday Hangout: Blender Conference for the rest of us
So… the Blender Conference is taking place this weekend, but most of you won’t be able to attend. How will you be spending this weekend? Do you plan to follow some sessions live, with some local Blenderheads maybe? Which presentations are you most looking forward to? Any other plans? Let them have their party in Amsterdam, we can hang out here! ;-)
Thought you were proposing a blender user hangout on google+
:P
Would you like to? Maybe next time!
Yeah next time :D
I also thought that you were talking about a Google+ Hangout! I think it would be a very nice idea!
I’m looking forward to the BlenderPro conference here in Brazil! Ton and Pablo Vazquez will be here :)
Haha, excellent! Pablo must be exhausted after travelling to so many conferences :)
ton must be rich as hell…he flies all over the place :P
I think he was invited to the Brazil conference, actually.
Yeah he flies from rotterdam to amsterdam. ;)
I am not Sure were to start, but I have an idea for a Blender short movie. I have been playing around with blender now for about a year and a half, I still have so much to learn, and it seems to be taking me forever to learn what I need to learn to do what I wanted to do. What I wanted to do is to turn a few books I have read into Blender Movies, so I can have a visual representation of the stories that I have come to adore. Purely on an educational level of course. Trying to teach yourself is no small undertaking, even with all the fantastic tutorials out there. I only wish I had discovered Blender years ago when it first popped into existance.
The First short movie I wanted to make is based on Anne McCaffrey’s Collection of short stories in the book, “The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall”. More Specifically, and the first of five short stories, titled “The Survey: P.E.R.N.” The story consists of only four characters, some space scenes and ultimately the survey of a new world which took place in a ten day excursion to the surface of the third planet in the Rukbat System. Anne has done a wonderful job describing the important scenes of the story. I am hoping to find some people to assist me with this endeavor, as well as teach me. I want to learn everything from Planning a Short Movie, to modeling and texturing the objects of the Story, to the animation of these objects and putting it all together.
Raven Whitehawk
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Hey guys. If my Blender movie wins the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization competition, would you guys be excited about it (I’ll find out in four days)? I think one of my main competitors is using Cinema4D :)
Link is here, let me know what you think (and today is the last day to vote if you want to do that):
https://nsf-scivis.skild.com/skild2/NationalScienceFoundation/viewEntryDetail.action?pid=5316
Yeah I like it.
I’m going to do some blender tutorials to improve my blender skills :)
Here is my version of the asteroid tutorialfrom blenderguru.com:
Did anyone checkout Andrew Price’s proposal to start making a game, if not check it out, very funny stuff.
LOL Well Played!
Yes, it was quite amusing, especially all the reactions it caused :)
I think I missed that – where was it?
it was here: http://www.blenderguru.com/calling-all-naive-artists
this is must read.
That was hilarious and worth a post later this week here on BN ;-) Thanks!
Cycles for the win! :)
I can’t wait for MLT-implementation and other more sophisticated render techniques ;)
But on simple scenes it’s already a lot of fun.
I’m working through Blender Cookie’s Low Poly Character Modeling Course!!! I got it two days ago (PREORDER :P), but now that it finally finished downloading and I got done with school, I can really dig into it!
I will try to finish a work that don’t let me enjoy Blender time :'(
I am actually on the conference, but it is always fun to reply on these kind of posts :)
Hope the stream will be uploaded on youtube soon after the conference :)
Hey, this thread is not for Conference visitors ;-)
On a more serious note: how is it this year? I’ll hop by later today.
The internet at my house isn’t good for live streaming, so I won’t be watching the conference this weekend, but I’m hoping that some of the sessions are archived somewhere online so I can see them later.
Yeah it would be great to have them on YouTube. I’ll ask Ton what his plans are.
I took my mom to the conference last year and it was a blast. She isn’t really into blender, but she found the talks interesting anyhow. Can’t be there this year, but maybe again in the future.
No time for Blender or animation this week. I’m having to figure out my student loans and deciding on repayment plans. I’m also appyling for a FT position at my work (Apple). Been talking to the business team and I might be able to host an introduction to blender workshop that gives people an overview of the program’s possibilities.
I also need to figure out how to get a digital file onto film, Digibeta, 35mm, HDCAM, etc. No clue on that stuff. Tonight I have to pmp out some PAL versions of my film for some out of US festivals. I need to fill out a bunch of entry forms and mail out some screener DVDs as well.so yeah haven’t had much animation time.
I saw there was a post on that animation Kata from like a year ago (when I saw it). Perhaps if i submit a news story for my film it might get posted this time ( would be 3rd news submission)
Im taking my modeled designs to a 3d printing business…. :D something to give for christmas, maybe next weekend i’ll watch the blender channel on youtube to watch the conference
Cool! Which 3d printing service do you use?
Liquad Edge in South-Africa, a prototyping company…. :) damn, i should’ve taken pictures of the entre process and posted it
Have you compared them to Shapeways? (I work there)
Hello All :)
Benjamin Walther-Franks presented to us the very cool performance timing tools – ScrubTime, SketchTime and DragTime!
Where are those addons?
Accidentally I got just the first part of the url: http://dm.tzi.de/en/research/
but still can’t find the last part.