Today's the deadline for submitting your contribution to the Suzanne Awards Announcement Videos.

Ton Roosendaal will be participating in two panel discussions today. More info.

Free Blender workshop at the Kunsthaus in Graz. Read more.

Today, Karl Kühberger is hosting a Blender Training in Vienna, Austria. More information.

Today's the deadline for the 2007 Suzanne Awards, Animation Festival.

Free Blender workshop at the Kunsthaus in Graz. Read more.

If you want to speak at the Blender Conference 2007, register before today! Full details on blender.org.

A training session on Open Source CGI and Multimedia Tools will take place in Sofia Bulgaria over one week from the 6th till the 12th of August..

Topics and Software:

• 3D CGI – Blender, GIMP, Voodoo tracker
• Post-production – Blender, Cinelerra
• Audio production – Ardour, Cinelerra
• Hardware setup, Tools for renderfarms control – Dr. Queue, Cinelerra
• Usage of collaborative software – Subversion, Track

There is a participation fee of €1000 that includes the training, accommodation and meals. Upon request there are also scholarships available. The training is targeted to artists working in the fields of 3D CGI, post-production, video editing, animation, advertising special effects and sound engineering. Application forms and more information on www.tosmi.org.

Today is the Blender Birds of a Feather meeting in San Diego. Read more.

The contest deadline is 1 August 2007. Good luck everyone!

Richard Bensley will be giving a 4 hour introductory course to Blender in Norwich, UK, on the 14th of July.

Richard writes:

Currently I am working on a 4 hour(ish) lesson plan. I will be giving a introduction to the basics of blender, an intro to polygon modelling, and finally some animation. After that I wouldn't mind showing off some fluids, dynamics, and particles, as well as showing off some of the sculpting, compositing, video editing, and painting tools.

More information

Today you can attend a Blender workshop in Vienna, Austria. Read more.

Nathan Letwory talks about Blender at the "Free Code – Free Culture" open doors event in the main library in Turku, Finland, organised by Turuxi and COSS. Elephants Dream will be shown as well. For more information see http://twiki.linux-aktivaattori.org/view/AOP2007/WebHome

A training session on Open Source CGI and Multimedia Tools will take place in Sofia Bulgaria over one week from the 14th till the 20th of May.

Topics and Software:

• 3D CGI – Blender, GIMP, Voodoo tracker
• Post-production – Blender, Cinelerra
• Audio production – Ardour, Cinelerra
• Hardware setup, Tools for renderfarms control – Dr. Queue, Cinelerra
• Usage of collaborative software – Subversion, Track

There is a participation fee of €1000 that includes the training, accommodation and meals. Upon request there are also scholarships available. The training is targeted  to artists working in the fields of 3D CGI,  post-production, video editing, animation, advertising special effects and sound engineering.  Application forms and more information on www.tosmi.org.

Today you can attend a Blender workshop in Vienna, Austria. Read more.

Today is the deadline for the 2007 Blender F1 Challenge. Read more.

Today you can see the team behind 'Cosmic Balance' spilling their secrets on how they used Blender and 3DS Max together in the production of their movie. The presentation is at the International FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Realtime and Content in Stuttgart, Germany at the Autodesk tower (Turm B) on Friday 4th of May at 12 o'clock.

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