Great idea!!!! Does the Blender Foundation have a good location for presentations?
Anyway, good luck! I certainly will try to be there! Greetings, Zaheer 2010/4/16 Jeroen Bakker <[email protected]> > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-nl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl > >
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