http://freefac.org post somnolent pachyderm adventures Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:19:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey folks, I'll be in Thessoloniki, Greece, doing a teacher's workshop for TOSMI, where I'll be teaching in two blender courses this August. After that I'll spend a few days exploring wherever chance and curiosity take me in Greece (I hear it's a nice place ;) ) If any blenderheads are ... http://freefac.org/posts/going-to-greece hehe, now I've got your attention :) I've been working with some talented folks doing preproduction on a new short movie project. ('major' might be a stretch). We've past script, storyboard, and multiple animatic stages, and now are just about done with concepts and ready to start production. As we do so, ... http://freefac.org/posts/now-announcing-a-major-motion-picture http://freefac.org/posts/random-sketch-56 When I made the Mancandy FAQ for the Blender Institute, we licensed the content as CC BY (the audio as CC BY NC) - mainly because the Blender Institute is committed to free/open code and media, and not in the business of making closed content. The value of something is ... http://freefac.org/posts/cc-rocks A little known fact about blender is that you can use it as a handy little flipbook/seamless animation player by launching it with blender -a filepath/filename (where the file can be an avi or the first in series of pngs /jpgs /etc) This is the same player launched when you ... http://freefac.org/posts/blender-animation-player The blog is back! Sorry for the long hiatus- we just switched hosts in anticipation of uploading much more content, and the backup / restore / configure cycle just took a bit longer than we thought. great new things coming soon! http://freefac.org/posts/back Well, somehow I managed to make this a page and not a post when I wrote it, and just noticed... so here it is again: quick blog from a (wirelessly connected!) train from amsterdam. in bug 17902 (which he fixed) ton made some quick tips about making raytracing less slow- mostly common ... http://freefac.org/posts/ton-raytrace-optimization-tips This version of Mancandy is for use (as the versioning suggests) for the upcoming blender 2.48. from now on, I'm going to keep mancandy versioning aligned with blender versioning to make it easy to answer which version with which. Changes from 2.0: (compatibility) Bones thighbend.L/R, calfbend.L/R, forearmbender.L/R, bicepbender.L/R,Neckbend and any other constraints ... http://freefac.org/posts/mancandy-248-rc1 Some nice people invited me to give a blender demo for the software freedom day event in Boston. Here are the details as I know them right now: Date/time: Sept 20th, 11:30 to 12:20 Location: encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111 http://www.encuentro5.org/ Topic/contents: A general intro to blender (no advanced ... http://freefac.org/posts/blender-session-at-software-freedom-day-boston This week's post brought to you courtesy of the folks at Spark Digital Entertainment, the letter "R" and the color purple. http://freefac.org/posts/blogged