As a newer Blender user and long time animator/rigger, I’m very excited to get an opportunity to meet those of you from the Blender community who will be coming to Siggraph this year.
I plan on coming to the Birds of a Feather on Sunday, and there are a number of great looking courses / events throughout the week that should be a lot of fun, including a Birds of Feather on wednesday focusing on cloud collaboration that promises to be interesting.
Just curious who else is going, and if anyone’s interested in meeting up to chat about learning blender & swap some notes!
I’ll be there, for sure. Working the booth again, as well as at the Birds of a Feather.
Are you here in LA? You should definitely check out our LA Users Group meetings. We just had one a couple weeks ago, so the next meetup will probably be right around Siggraph time. Most of the core group will probably be there at the BoF, too.
im not located down in la, so unfortunately I can’t make the user group meetings… But I saw that you had a meeting! :). Is there a Northern California chapter?
Thanks @jamez! Glad you liked the tutorials and found them useful!
since you asked, im interested in blender as part of our (nimble collective’s) mission to help people get their content out there - not sure if you saw our press release earlier this year, but a few of us left dreamworks to start up a cloud based animation pipeline - working to enable creators to spend more time creating and less time dealing with all the other cruft that comes along with making animated content (file structure, cost, collaboration, distribution, etc).
Essentially we want artists to spend their time doing what they love - creating great art!
Blender is interesting because it has so many capabilities! Story boarding, modeling, rigging, animating, editing… But it hasn’t really broken into the professional market yet in the states. I want to learn it and really understand where it shines and where it needs more work.
I also love the passion of this community… even when the debates are heated - it’s tom a place of love… Love for the tool, for the art, for the craft… It’s fantastic!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at siggraph and learning more!
Oh, ya. I’ll be at SG 2015. I’ve got a busy work schedule this year but I should be able to squeeze in a day or two.
We have a group up in NorCal. It casually gets together. Some of them also show up on the interactive webcasts we organize as part of the SoCal groups. Just PM me and we will work on getting you connected.
I have been threatening to get up to SF and organize a meeting sometime soon so maybe you can help with that. Let’s talk at the booth.
KIT
BTW, here’s the most recent page of our LA group’s thread where you can find announcements and webcast info:
Thanks for the detailed reply Jason. It is always cool to see experienced artists of your calibre using Blender! Yes, I had heard of Nimble Collective, I think from somewhere on CGtalk…I will go and check out your website and have a read.
Yes, the Blender online community is certainly a unique thing, much like Blender and its’ development model. To be sure, there is never a dull day in Blender land