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
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.
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
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
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.
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:
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.
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!
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.
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.