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Libre Graphics Meeting 2010

Chris — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:59:49 +0000

Title: Libre Graphics Meeting 2010
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Link out: Click here
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

Chris — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:41:57 +0000

Title: Blender Conference Germany
Location: Eislingen/Fils, Baden Württemberg
Link out: Click here
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

Chris — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:12:39 +0000

Title: New York City Blender Users Group
Location: Polytechnic University in Brooklyn
Link out: Click here
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

SVG Open 2009

Chris — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:19:03 +0000

Title: SVG Open 2009
Location: Mountain View, California
Link out: Click here
Description: At the SVG Open 2009 Conference you will have the opportunity to learn to use it to create effective and compelling web content, learn techniques for developing SVG software solutions, and see the latest developments from the W3C. You will meet the creators of SVG applications in person, the authors of the SVG specifications, and you will have the opportunity to provide your own input for future development.
Start Date: 2009-10-02
End Date: 2009-10-04

Tennessee Blender Conference

Chris — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:48:26 +0000

Title: Tennessee Blender Conference
Location: North East Tennessee
Link out: Click here
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 . This year we hope to be bigger and better. We are excited to have Matt Runion, Sam Brubaker, and Trey Bowen returning again this year among the list of presenters. We hope to post videos of as much as possible for everyone to see. George Bowen will be in charge of the video production. Lunch will be provided on Saturday to save time and to increase the social atmosphere of the conference. Please email me for more information at byron@paraisoenterprises.com . The cost of the conference this year is $65 for registration on or before July 15, 2009. Registration after July 15, 2009 is $80.
Start Date: 2009-08-01
Start Time: 9:00
End Date: 2009-08-02
End Time: 12:00

MyPaint UI Brainstorm

Chris — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:55:43 +0000

MyPaint, the open source 2d graphics program for digital painters, is looking for ideas and input for a new interface. If you ever got frustrated with UI elements of your favorite software, or wished things look this way or that way, now is your chance to post your ideas. The communities behind open source software will allow your voice to be heard low and clear.

MyPaint is designed to be fast and easy. The program tries not to bog down the artist, by letting her focus on the art instead of the software. There are a number of open source painting applications that focuses on usability instead of trying to be ultimate image processing program. The more notable ones are Krita, Flowpaint, Drawpile, and Gogh. Even with its “keep is simple” goals, the current interface is a little too minimalistic.

So the developers are opening up to hear what the community has to say about this little 2d paint program.

Learn more about MyPaint by visiting their website here.

The GUI Brainstorm project is located here.

-Chris

Krita Development News

Children’s Horror Novel Cover Done In Inkscape

Chris — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:18:47 +0000

Matt Jordan has just self-published his first in a series of children’s horror novels called Creepspace. Not only is this a major accomplishment in and of itself, but Matt also created the front and back covers of the book in Inkscape. Continue to see the images:

(Click on images above to enlarge.)

This is truly an open source project as Matt also wrote the entire novel in OpenOffice Writer.

This shows one of the benefits of using open source software. Independent creators can focus their time and money on actually creating the art, instead of worrying about how they are going to get the money for the next useless software upgrade.

Good luck to Matt with the rest of the series, and hopefully OSArtist can work with him in the future.

Buy the Kindle ebook here.

-Chris

Install 117 New Gimp Effects

Chris — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:24:30 +0000

I found this really cool Gimp project called Gimp FX Foundry. (Thanks to Unixmen.) This is a Sourceforge project that enables you to install 117 new Gimp effects that are not part of the regular Gimp 2.6 distribution. A few of the effects included are: film grain effect, sepia toning, and pastel effect.

You can find a complete list of the effects at:

Link.

Also, Unixmen has a tutorial on how to install the scripts here. They also include an embedded YouTube video to help with installation.

-Chris

Blender 3D & Synfig Animation

Chris — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:09:41 +0000

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.

Gord’s site has more information on the making of the animation. And hopefully I can secure an interview with him in the future to get more insight into the making of the short.

-Chris

Blender Game Engine Course

Chris — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:03:50 +0000

Title: Blender Game Engine Course
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Link out: Click here
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