This year's Animation Festival rocked! Organiser Dolf (Macouno) reports.

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The Blender Conference 2008 has kicked off. Here's the live stream (VLC link)!

Update: Kaveh wrote "I am broadcasting a second feed of just the screen, which is more readable. It is here: http://www.river-valley.tv. It is experimental but seems to be working. In addition, we'll be uploading higher resolution recordings as the postprocessing is done."

The Blender Foundation has announced the nominees for the sixth annual Suzanne Awards:

These are the nominees for the sixth annual Suzanne Awards.

The entries will be shown during the Animation Festival on Friday October 24th.

The people attending the Conference will get to vote, and the winners will be announced at the Suzanne Awards Ceremony on Saturday the 25th.

Update: the video's are now all available for download.

"Own-it in cooperation with Open Rights Group have invited a panel of independent and corporate video games developers, joined by a specialist lawyer, who will discuss alternative business models based on open source technology and whether or not they could influence the future of the games industry."

More information on this free event and registration here. At the moment of writing there are still 31 seats available.

Remember the Blender Conference in Kingsport last August? It took the organization a massive amount of work, but they have now published 11 videos of the sessions – over 7 hours of material in total!

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Ton Roosendaal of the Blender Foundation has announced this year's Blender Conference schedule. An exciting mix from "Artificial Intelligence Nodes module inside Blender for expert modeling, texturing, animating and rendering" to Advanced Blender tips and tricks with Bassam Kurdali, Andy Goralczyk, and others. It looks to be an exciting event this year.

October 24, 25 & 26

In the next 2 months it looks like the Big Buck Bunny project will be getting a lot more publicity. Ton has had a lot of invitations for festivals and conferences etc, due to the successful release of the BBB project.

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I caught up with Shawn and Carlos again at this year's SIGGRAPGH in Los Angeles. We discuss some changes and milestones at AnimationMentor as well as what it's like to work at a big studio. I did the interview just outside the Expo, in a common area, and well, that always leads to some interesting background noise. You'll hear Fjorge members screaming "Fjorge" as they wonder the halls.

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Hello folks… It is that time of year again! The 2008 Blender conference is slowly creeping up on us. This means that once again we're looking for Blender made animations to show everyone at the annual Blender Animation Festival.

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One of this years Emerging Technology on display at SIGGRAPH, is a user interface that expands on the mouse and tablet concept. With this technology, there are different types controls that you use to manipulate the various objects on your screen. These control objects are sensed by the "tablet", they are neither electronic or wired to the tablet. I'm not quite sure how this will fit into the pipeline, but I was fascinated by the technology.

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I put together a video tour of the SIGGRAPH 2008 Expo and some of the electronic art to try a give those of you who have never experienced SIGGRAPH a taste of it. The Expo is like a one giant collage of colors and sounds of technology. A place where art and technology collide. The video opens with a walk through some of the vendor exhibits in the early morning before most of the people arrive. It later then comes alive with the buzz of the exhibitors and attendees followed with some of the art.

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Here are some pictures from SIGGRAPH and the Blender crew Tuesday.

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Los Angeles, California U.S.A

It was a packed audience for all of the Blender B.O.F.s but especially for the Apricot gaming segment. It was so crowded, that people were sitting in the isles and standing at the door into the hallway.

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Well, I thought I'd post a picture from here while the conference is in session. I'll update more later.

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The first SIGGRAPH reports are starting to come in. Claas Kuhnen is maintaining a photo diary.

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Birds of a Feather events are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees. They must be free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, open to all SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees, and non-commercial in nature (topics specific to one commercial product or company are discouraged).

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For those of you attending SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles this year, Animation Mentor will be hosting a panel discussion and tribute to the life and work of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston on Wednesday, August 13, 2008.

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Tony Mullen will be hosting a series of Blender-related workshops and presentations in Bogota, Colombia this August. It seems like BlenderHeads are being invited to show up all over the world these days. Time to post my résumé somewhere ;-)

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