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Libre Graphics Meeting 2010

Posted by Chris on December 22, 2009
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Title: Libre Graphics Meeting 2010
Location: Brussels, Belgium
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Description: The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting has been the premiere conference where developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas.
Start Date: 2010-05-26
End Date: 2010-05-29

Blender Conference Germany

Posted by Chris on June 19, 2009
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Title: Blender Conference Germany
Location: Eislingen/Fils, Baden Württemberg
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Description: The 2 day event will take place on the 18./19. July. We are looking forward to great presentations and workshops from German speaking Blender artists and are really happy to make this event possible. We are also interested in more presentations and workshops. Visit www.blenderday.de for more information and get your ticket. See you at BlenderDay/09! :)

Tickets including 2 lunches and two dinners are €35. Tickets including a stay in a youth hostel (and meals) are €55.

(Via Blendernation.com)
Start Date: 2009-07-18
End Date: 2009-07-19

New York City Blender Users Group

Posted by Chris on June 17, 2009
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Title: New York City Blender Users Group
Location: Polytechnic University in Brooklyn
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Description: The format of the meeting will be 1 hour of short presentations for anyone who is interested in speaking, followed by an informal work meeting/study hall.

Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-06-27

Tennessee Blender Conference

Posted by Chris on June 10, 2009
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Title: Tennessee Blender Conference
Location: North East Tennessee
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Description: This years Blender Conference in the Tri Cities of North East Tennessee is planned for August 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and August 2, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, 2009. Our theme for this year is : The Production Pipeline, from Ideas to Post Production . Continue reading…

Blender 3D & Synfig Animation

Posted by Chris on June 08, 2009
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Gord Goodwin and Feel Good Comics has posted a forty second animation called Tom Hanks Animation over at YouTube.  The animation combines both 2d and 3D graphics, as the creator used Blender 3D and Synfig together to complete the month-long project.  Continue reading to see embedded video.

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Blender Game Engine Course

Posted by Chris on June 02, 2009
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Title: Blender Game Engine Course
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Description: CanDo 3D’s course will begin with basic level design skills, using the Blender Game Engine to learn the game editor and teach the concepts of level design and factors affecting it – Time limits, Pickups, Obstacles.  Participants will be able to put together a simple game by the end of the course.

Start Date: 2009-07-13
End Date: 2009-07-17

Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 – Speaker Videos

Posted by Chris on June 02, 2009
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lgmRiver Valley TV has posted speaker videos for the 2009 Libre Graphics Meeting held in Montreal last month.  We blogged about the conference here.  Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual event where developers and users of open source art software gather to discuss the future of free graphics.  The main projects are Scribus, Blender 3D, Krita, Inkscape, and The Gimp, but a number of representatives of other graphics software attend and speak.

Here is an incomplete list of videos to give you an idea of what was presented:

Blender 3D 2.49 Released

Posted by Chris on June 01, 2009
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BlenderOn the road to coding and preparing for the long awaited 2.50, the Blender developers have took a slight turn and released Blender 2.49!  According to the Blender home page, it seems that the advances in the Game Engine justified having a well tested and bug fixed release.

Blender is a free, open source software for making 3D graphics and animation.

Read more for what’s new in this release:

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Blender Conference 2009

Posted by on May 23, 2009
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Title: Blender Conference 2009
Location: Amsterdam
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Description: The 8th annual Blender Conference will be again in Amsterdam, this time we\’ve got (tentatively) hold of a great new location, the former 19th century court building \”De Balie\”. This grand cafe / theatre / cinema is right in the center of Amsterdam, on the Leidseplein, the heart of Amsterdam\’s music, theatre and clubbing nightlife.
Start Date: 2009-10-23
End Date: 2009-10-25

Melbourne Blender Society Meeting

Posted by on May 21, 2009
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Title: Melbourne Blender Society Meeting
Location: Atari Building, Level 8 / 14 Queens Road
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Description: Melbourne Blender Society have planned their next usermeeting for next week\’s Wednesday, the 27th of May.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-05-27