This happened
Posted in News on May 27th, 2014 20 Comments »
Had some friends over. Had a bottle of bubbly. Had always wanted to try this. Boom.
Archive for May, 2014
Welcome WPLUG and Pittsburgh Filmmakers!
Posted in News on May 18th, 2014 1 Comment »
On Monday evening, I was privileged to do an hour on Blender for a joint audience of the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group (primary desktop Linux user for four straight years yo!) and the Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Since the Mango project, Blender has been turned into a fantastic one-stop shop for the filmmaker’s pipeline for special […]
Almost finished 2014 stream regrade
Posted in News on May 17th, 2014 No Comments »
Every couple of years, I refactor the little garden stream in my back yard. The previous version didn’t have enough water velocity in the lower half to generate the kind of visuals and cascading that I had wanted. But the nature of a project this is that by the time you actually get to run […]
Starting a new edition of Blender Foundations
Posted in Blender Foundations on May 12th, 2014 No Comments »
Several weeks ago, my publisher touched base with me about doing an update to Blender Foundations. He noted that it had been their most successful Blender title to date, and obviously they would like to keep it up with the times. My response was that I understood his position as an acquisitions editor (i.e. to […]