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Hi all, I have been to the last django and python-nl meeting and I want to introduce myself and propose a presentation. Our product line is around the Blender system (http://www.blender.org). Blender is an Open Source 3d content creation platform capable for creating computer rendered animation films and interactive media. Their main base is Blender foundation/institute here in Amsterdam. For the last two years the developers have been doing a great job on the next mayor release (Blender 2.5/2.6). All internals have been rewritten and this resulted in several interesting solutions. We have developed a content management system called Blender-aid to visualize production files. A short movie of 10 minutes contain over 1000 files all linking them together. Normally a filesystem is used to manage this. but with our product the files can be maintained using a web-based view of the production. Nowadays it is used by 3 big productions and growing. see http://sidedish.atmind.nl for more information The Blender UI and 99% of the plugins are created in python 3.1. Therefore we have gained a lot of experience in Python 3.1. Blender-aid is developed to be run on python 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 and 3.1 using a single sourcebase. We have not chosen to use a framework like django, as the system runs on a star-based database model and (not a commonly used relational database) Since October 2009 the Blender Foundation is creating their third open source movie. An Hollywood style animation movie about a girl called Sintel and her pet dragon. It is a short movie of around 12 minutes. A lot of information can be found on http://durian.blender.org. In the past a game has been developed: http://www.yofrankie.org and other short animations http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ and http://www.elephantsdream.org/ I propose to make a presentation on one of above topics if it is interesting or a more general one about Blender open media and the use of python. Also it is interesting to invest in Blender coding, as there is commercial a need for good blender developers. Greetings, Jeroen Bakker
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