Andy Goralczyk will be giving two Blender workshops on the FMX 07 Conference in Stuttgart this Friday, May 5th.

• From 2 - 3 pm: 3D for Free! Creating High End Computer Graphics The Open Source Way which is a general thing to show off cool blender features and how to use the software without going insane.
• From 5 to 6 pm: Making Elephants Dream - Creating the world's first Open Movie which tells the exciting story of the creation of… some movie.

(Slightly) more info

Today is the deadline for applying for the SIGGRAPH 2007 FJORG! contest. Read more.

This afternoon at 3:15pm, the Meischeid music video by the French director Matray will be showing at the 'Le Cinéma des Cinéastes' (7 avenue de Clichy Paris 17éme) one of the biggest short film festivals in Paris.

• Programme info

Tonight at 9:00pm, Elephants Dream will be showing at the 'Le Cinéma des Cinéastes' (7 avenue de Clichy Paris 17éme) one of the biggest short film festivals in Paris.

• Programme info

Elephants Dream will be playing today at 20.00h in the City 2 cinema in Amsterdam. Read more.

Laurence Weedy wrote:

I am putting on an art exhibition with some friends this week at Winchester School of Art in England.

There are 5 of us, two from the Düsseldorf Kunst Akademie (Christiane Kues, Christoph Westermeier) and three of us from Winchester school of art. (Yeeyan Tang, Christina Wrege and Laurence Weedy)

I am writing to you because my work is made using the Blender games engine and I thought you might be interested in this for a ‘Blender News’ article. I have put some screenshots here.

I am a mature student at Winchester school of Art and have started using the Blender Games engine in my work. I’d wanted to work in interactive 3D for sometime and discovered Blender after trying Torque and RealityFactory (I still use RF as its great fun and a really helpful forum).

I love the physics in Blender and the fact it isn’t based around any game concept. You really can do what ever you want. It is also bigger than my brain.

What I am presenting for our show this week is a simple piece (I am still a Noob) based on the graphic arts of the 20s and 30s, particularly the work of El Lissitzky. I wanted to make that kind of work but 3D and somehow interactive. I ended up rendering everything shadeless to get the graphic look with just the changing size of the objects giving away their 3D journey. I am projecting it on to a silver, glitter material which gives a very directional, bright and colourful appearance.

We have a website – www.kronloyal.co.uk

Show dates 25th – 27th April 2007 9:30 – 17:00
Private view 26th April 18:00 to 20:00

Winchester School of Art,
Park Avenue,
Winchester
SO23 8DL

Elephants Dream will be playing today at 14.00h in the City 2 cinema in Amsterdam. Read more.

From the 13th to the 15th of April, Blender users can meet during the iParty 09 event. Read more.

The deadline for the TD3D.com Realtime 3D Contest has been extended to March 31st.

Today is the submission deadline for Bob Holcomb's compositing contest.

Today is the deadline for the 'What Did YOU Do to Poor Mancandy?' contest (if you can call it a contest ;-). Read more.

Today is the deadline for the Google Summer of Code 2007. Read more.

1Samildanach is organising an informal Blender users get-together in Melbourne today. Check out this thread on BlenderArtists for the latest information.

Status: Likely (several people have shown interest, I haven't gotten tired or sick of it).

Date: Saturday 17th March (2007 AD)

Time: 11 (AM) to… 3, 4 PM?

Location: State Library, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, etc.

Tonight, the new Plumiferos trailer will be playing at the 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina. Read more.

Today, Roland Hess will be speaking about BlenderPeople at the Grey Thumb group in Boston. Full details.

Today is the content submission deadline for Blenderart Magazine #9. For more information on this issue, read more here.

Today is the deadline for the 'Most Incredible Device' Bullet Physics contest. Be sure to submit in time!

Today is the deadline for the TD3D.Com Realtime 3D Contest.