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bk2003_13.jpgWe're quite late to report this, but there's still time to submit your work for the Blender Conference 2007 Animation Festival and Suzanne Awards.

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Blender Conference 2007 Now Open

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'Pakhuis de Zwijger' - the new home of the Blender ConferenceRegistration for the sixth annual Blender Conference in Amsterdam is now open. Come and join us to celebrate Blender's 5th anniversary as Open Source software!

bn-news1.jpgSIGGRAPH 2007 has recognized the media coverage by BlenderNation of Blender development and CG news by approving us as an official media company to cover any of the events at this years show.

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a398850a6f.jpgThe Blender Conference 2007 Call for Participation is now online; the deadline for submissions is September 1st. More information on blender.org.

siteThe Sixth Blender Conference will be held in the new Amsterdam venue De Zwijger, which will offer us more space and very cool facilities, including a large theater. During the dinner and party of Saturday we will also celebrate that exactly 5 years ago Blender became Open Source. Dates: fri-sat-sun, 12-14 October.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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blender.gifOn Thursday, may 24th, Dolf Veenvliet, Sacha Goedegebure and Ton Roosendaal will be speaking at the Blender Event 2007, at the Selexyz bookstore in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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cb_8300-1.jpgGerman animation studio Die Versilberte Eitelkeit and Arroba Films S.A. de C.V. have recently finished their 8 minute short movie 'Cosmic Balance', based on Francisco Athié's short novel. Much of the work was done in Blender.

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I just received confirmation from Ton that there will be a Blender Birds of a Feather [BOF] meeting at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego. There's not much info to share yet, except that it's on Monday, August 6th in Room 29A.

Blendiberia 2007

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cartel.pngBlendiberia 2007 will be celebrated in Castellón de la Plana from the 13th to the 15th of April. Blendiberia is a Latin fan Blender meeting. This year it will take place during iParty9. There will be a lecture about animation movies by one of the creators of Plumíferos.

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FJORG! at SIGGRAPH

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SIGGRAPH 2007There's going to be a new twist at this year's SIGGRAPH conference in San Diego. In addition to all of the other excellent events going on, there's going to be a intense 32-hour animation competition called FJORG! (pronounced "forge"… and, yes, the exclamation mark is part of the name).

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logo_gdconf.gifFrom today until Friday (March 5th-9th) the Uni-Verse team will be demonstrating Verse and Blender at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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fff1.jpgBassam Kurdali and Andy Goralczyk were invited to speak at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy last January. It looks like they had a blast - here is their report.

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Animatu 2007 - Call for entries

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Well, seems like it was yesterday that I was in Beja to give some Workshops in the Animatu Festival.

And now we have the announcement that Animatu 2007 is already kicking off, having a call for entries.

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Report from Linux.Conf.au

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linuxconf_team.jpgMatt Ebb organised a Blender demo at the Australian Linux.conf.au last week. Today, he reports on the event.

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lca-poster.jpgThe Australian linux.conf.au will be held at the University of New South wales, in Sydney, Australia from Januari 15 - 20. Part of their program is the 'Open Day' on the 18th. The organisation has invited Elephants Dream lead artist Matt Ebb to give a Blender demo, but he could use your help.

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bn-presentation.jpgAll of the Blender Conference presentation videos are now online and you can download them using BitTorrent. Many of them have by now also appeared on Google Video.

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Blender Conference - Day Three

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ton.jpgWithout further ado, here's the BlenderNation Journal for the last day of the Blender Conference 2006. The absolute highlight of the day was the presentation of the Plumiferos project; these people are really working on an amazing project. In order of appearance, the interviews are: Tony Mullen (author of 'Introduction to Character Animation in Blender'), Colin Litster, Samo Korosec, Ivan Hoffman and Manuel Perez of Plumiferos, Jason van Gumster and finally the man himself: Ton.

Update: hi-res Quicktime file added

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All Good Things…

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bconf-pass.jpgIt is with pain in my heart that I had to leave the 'after-party' of the Blender Conference in Café Cuba tonight. Talking to Bassam about his time in Buenos Aires with the Plumiferos team and our shared admiration for what they are accomplishing, discussing the Blender.org redesigns with Matt, learning about Colin Litster's history and aspirations with Blender, having some good laughs with Andy and Lee, finally meeting Rui and looking back on our time in Boston with Wybren - all of it came to an end because of one simple reason: tomorrow is just another day at the office, and I had to return home…

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