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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "award"

Second day IICO 2008

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The 2nd day at the IICO 2008 was filled with a lot of interesting talks, i visited a very nice one about wording and writing text for websites.
As a member of the jury for the IICO Award about "Design and Usability" it was a pleasure for me to hold the laudatio for the winner of the award: LEGO :smile:

Blender F1 2008 contest voting

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Since a week the Blender F1 2008 contest is over and voting phase started. So you have now 3 days up to the deadline pushing your favorite to the first row.

SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival nominees

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The SIGGRAPH announced the nominees of their Computer Animation Festival, read all about it in the press release.
Too bad no screenies of the nominees today :frown:

Blender F1 2008 contest

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One of the first contests especially for Blender was the F1 which is started this time again. Like ever "What is better then speed? More speed!".
Take a look of the results of the last year to built a real cool new speed vehicle:
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

Nic did it again

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...another nice and sweet piece of Nicole Riske - completly done using Inkscape.

FJORG - 2nd international competition at SIGGRAPH 2008

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The SIGGRAPH 2008 announces the 2nd international 2D and 3D animation contest. Up to the 15th of March 2008 you can submit your animations. All about the rules and prizes can be found at the FJORG page.
Check out the winners of FJORG 2007 too!.

Blender 2.50 - the new architecture

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There is a very long article at the Blender wiki of the last developer IRC meeting. Ton Roosendaal showing ideas and sketches about the new architecture of the upcoming Blender 2.50 release.
The Blender development will now move to the established VMC (View-Model-Controller) model that will make it much easier to implement new features in Blender.
And other new features are added: Custom Weight Range and Multi Modifier.

Blender artists more present then ever

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Since 2006 more and more Blender artists are at the top ranks and official selections of 3d awards.
Here is a short overview of Blender "Winners" in 2007:

Read more...

Cool Inkscape stuff

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Nicole Riske did again, with her illustration she won the Goldener Spatz poster award. All is done in Inkscape. Congratulation!

Do you renember eastern this year? She made this very nice bunny illustration on Inkscape.org.

Her gallery can be found at www.visulant.de.

Webcuts.07 Award: And the winner is...

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Webcuts.07 is over now, the winners are:

Best Film: "I lived on the Moon" Yannick Puick (Spain/ France)
Best Animation: "En tus brazos" Landour, Goby, Jouret (France)
Best Story: "Leftovers" Igor Coric (Serbia)
Best Design: "Codehunters" Ben Hibon, Dana Dorian (Scottland, UK)
Audience Award: "Global Warming" Sheldon Lieberman (Australia)

A complete coverage, photos, interviews and all movies of the "Official Selection Webcuts.07" can be found at the Webcuts.07 website.

At the Webcuts.07 Sevenload portal the international internet community can now watch, discuss and rank the "Offical Seclection Webcuts.07".
For a month everybody is invited to selected his favorite for the Community Award.

Webcuts.07 award animation

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Today i finished the Webcuts.07 award animation. It's a modification of colors and fonts of last year. I did the rendering and compositing complete in Blender but struggeled in the output of an Quicktime movie with sound (seems a FFMpeg problem).
Hey, just 3 days up to Webcuts.07 - don't miss it!

Get your Webcuts.07 tickets!

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If you are living near Berlin or inside the town, don't miss Webcuts.07 Internet Film Fest Berlin! Get your tickets via the Cinestar cinema ticket hotline: 01805-118811 (24h, 14 Ct / Min.).

Webcuts.07 - Nominees

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The nominees of Webcuts.07 awards are set — but still a secret! The best 22 movie clips from around the world will be presented on October, 11 at the CineStar Original Berlin SonyCenter. Tonight the jury will meet to decide on who will be the winners for best design, best animation, best story and best film.

Enjoy the trailer!



Link: sevenload.com

3 days up to the submssion deadline of Webcuts.07

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If you have created a fine motion graphics, 3d animation, video or Flash film submit it for Webcuts - Internet Film Fest Berlin:
http://www.webcuts.org/2007/info_submit.html

All movies of "Official Selection" will be shown on the 11th of October in Berlin (Europe/ Germany) in the CineStar cinema at the Potsdamer Platz/ Sony Center.