Blender seminar
Blender : a powerfull free and Open Source 3D package for TV Ident, Game and special effects
Saturday 14th Mach 2009 | Lecturer : François Grassard
What is Blender ?
Source: www.blenderclan.org
Blender is to 3D what GIMP is to 2D, no more and no less, in the way that Blender is going to tease the big names of the market like 3DsMax in the same way that GIMP is going to challenge the Photoshop reference. Well yes, on the heels of its modeling, animation, rendering and even real time tools that Blender is placed today as a very reliable "outsider"... Reliable status which is no longer to question since Elephants Dream, first open source short animation film in the history, lights up the professionalism which can be reached with this program. The second short movie of the foundation, Big Buck Bunny, revealed again the credibility level of the software. Blender sources are available to whom will want to give it an upgrade, and the whole is coordinated by the Blender Foundation to avoid a chaotic development.
Note that Blender runs on Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, and MacOS X platforms ! Furthermore, it will need less than 10Mo of harddisk space, which allows it to start in a very short time compared to other heavy weight in its category (more than 500Mo for 3DsMax as an example !). It uses not much ressources and displays more than decent performance, even on small engines...
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François Grassard, expert in audio visual design and 3D production
Graduate with a postgraduate certificate in "Arts and Technologies of Image" at Paris 8 university, François GRASSARD worked at the same time in audio visual production for several television channels, such as TF1, M6, Game One or Canal + where he created almost all special effects for the "Guignol de l'Info" tv show. He is specialised in hyper realistic 3D characters conception and motion capture. He developped in particular a muscular system applied to virtual characters that he presented as a project for his postgraduate certificate and which was used later on for several animation films, such as "Renaissance", movie entirely done in 3D / Motion capture.
Based on his experience in communication and production agency where he works as DVD creation manager for several publishers such as Disney, Warner, Universal, Dreamworks, he is then promoted special effect director then studio manager where he leads a 25 persons team, working during 4 years for advertising as well as for movies or tv design. He mastery technical constraints and different steps of the global production line, from conception to final delivery of the product.
Since two years, he is also a trainer specialized in special effects, 2D/3D conception and tv channel design for a lot of freelance artists or for tv channels such as TF1, France Télévision, Canal+ or M6 but also for cable, satellite and TNT channels. Besides, he also works for Computer Arts magazine, having a total of more than 150 articles written on most popular 2D and 3D softwares used nowadays.
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