The Connecticut Film Festival is taking place in Danbury Connecticut on June 2-7. I’ll be in the Interactive Festival (part of the CTFF) making a small workshop focused on movie production using Free and Open Source software”Making 3-D Movies Using Free Software”, on June 5th at 5:40pm, and doing a panel “The ABC’s of CGI” the following day at 4:00pm. Another of our team, Jason Van Gumster (author of Blender for Dummies) is going to be on the panel as well, and is going to give a talk at 4:00pm on June 5th entitled “Completely Free Animation using Blender”.
If you’re in the area, come check it out! I’m sure there will be room for beer (or soda) and pretzels after.
I’m quite chuffed to be welcoming our newest team member, Gianmichele Mariani, a talented animator working in the UK, with a fantastic reel, an more importantly, a beautiful hat.
Seriously, check out his bio on the team page, and his web site for a sample of his work. I knew this blog was a good idea 🙂
Please view the following and report any bugs 😉 – I’m testing the html <video> element with a fallback for older browsers. This should work on the latest betas for safari and firefox; those of you on those browsers, please test and tell me if it works, for all other browsers we have our normal flash player.
some issues: I’m unable to see the “poster” image for the video element in firefox, anyone can tell me if I did it wrong?
I’d like to switch to using video with the new <video> tag available in newer browsers, such as the firefox 3.5 series and safari (soon opera), because it will be easier for people to view the website (currently using flash) with free software, and because it will be the more web-standards way to go.
However, I think it’s still important to have a flash fallback in case of people using browsers not yet capable of the <video> tag: does anyone have advice/exprience about doing this in wordpress? as far as I know, there is no wordpress plugin capable of it, but it is probably possible without plugins.
Soon (6-9 may) is the time for LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting) – in Montreal this year. LGM is a groovy arto-codo-free-softwariconference, where you get to chat and hear people present about Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Krita, GEGL, Hugin and more – many of the programs that we depend on to make tube.
At least two Tube project team-members will be there- Martin Poirier is presenting about Blender 2.5 (he’s one of those mythical ‘coder’ people), and it looks like I’ll be presenting “Short Tube, Free Pipeline” and about “Video Editing using Blender with Real-World Examples” (at least, my proposals both show up on the tentative schedule.) In addition, there is some possiblity that other team-members might show up (Jean-Sebastian isn’t far away, and Jason and Kursad have both threatened they *might* show up,) giving us the opportunity to organize a late night blend and hack session or two for the project. If you’re in the area, come see us, maybe we’ll force you to work 😉
- Affiliated Organizations:
- Blender
- Bitfilms
- Hampshire College