I was actually able to pry Bassam away fro the computer at the Blender booth to give an interview about his new Mancandy model and rigging system and his upcoming Blender Foundation training DVD.

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If you enjoyed Roland "Harkyman" Hess' video interview, don't miss this write-up about SIGGRAPH that comes straight from the man himself! Harkyman talks about the city of San Diego, experiences from the Expo floor, and even more.

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This is my interview at SIGGRAPH 2007 with the founders of AnimationMentor.com, Bobby Beck, Shawn Kelly and Carlos Baena at their booth. AnimationMentor.com is the online character animation school where all the instructors are working studio animators.

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My interviews with Joe Eagar - Google Summer of Code Deep Shadows, Roland Hess - coauthor of Essential Blender, Ton Mullen - Author of Character Animation with Blender and Bud who is new to Blender.

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I was able to catch Ton between the Blender Birds of Feather conferences, we decided to tape the interview in the hallway to get a bit of the ambiance of the SIGGRAPH conference. We certainly did get some ambiance, Fjorg was being held in the room around the corner.

You can watch the video in either Flash or QuickTime.

Tony Mullen and Roland Hess were invited to the Wiley & Sons Author Dinner at SIGGRAPH.

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With the end of SIGGRAPH 2007, a lot of cool stuff related to the conference and contests are showing up in the web. A video about FJORG! was released last week, showing that some team was using Blender during the competition! Yes, besides all the resources available like Maya, 3ds max and XSI, it`s really good to see a team using Blender.

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Ton asked me to do a quick introduction video like he did of the one at the Blender Institute offices. A quick walk through the exhibit area from the entrance to the Blender exhibit. Also appearing is Roland Hess (Harkyman). I promised Ton that I'd publish this video first.

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Well I'm back from SIGGRAPH 2007 and it was a very exciting and incredible trip. I felt like a sugar starved kid in a candy shop, so many things to see and do, which do I choose to do first. I especially want thank folks at SIGGRAPH for recognizing BlenderNation as a legitimate news source.

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