Blender Conference 2016

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The Blender Conference 2016 was on recently and a couple weeks ago all the panels were uploaded to YouTube. I've been getting through a couple over the last few days and just thought I'd share some of my highlights so far.

I'm really excited for some of the changes that they've talked about so far for the view port. Some of the stuff getting changes here I almost never use because I don't find them aiding my workflow in any way, but with some of these changes they'll pretty quickly find their way in there.

While I'm not really a fashion person some of the stuff they talk about in here is really interesting. I also think some of the tools he's developed could be really useful for character design and clothing in animation projects and games.

I think this video has been my favourite so far. I'm beginning to explore into music production a little bit and being able to make music with objects made in blender just sounds so awesome xD

I found this one interesting because 2D animation is a weak point for Blender and one of Blender's strongest points is its versatility so having certain workflows and processes improved is really awesome. I could see some sort of combination between Blender A Krita for 2D animation being a really strong option for it on Linux. A plugin that melds the 2 together in someway to make that easier would be awesome. Maybe something the community could start? :P

Another great video about some changes coming to Blender. I can confirm that UV unwrapping in Blender is a little hard from the few times I've used it and any improvements are welcome.

It's always great to see more adoption of Blender and some of the stuff these guys are working on looks really good. I love the style and I'm eager to see what comes out from them in the future.

Those are some of the highlights from the panels I have seen thus far. I'd like to give an honourable mention to "Smart Slicing in Blender". They have created a cloud rendering service, but the rendering computers are actually being implement in houses to be used as heats. I think that's just awesome xD I didn't find the rest of the video to interesting though do that's why I'm not posting it here.

My other posts on Blender (both about video editing):

Getting Started With: Video Editing in Blender

Recently I reposted my Blender As a Video Editor because Wendell got possession of the forums. A lot of people liked the post and wanted to start using it/had tried using it but weren't sure where to start or couldn't find decent tutorials and found themselves a little confused. That's where this thread comes in. This thread will have a collection of resources as well as comments on my own experience of using Blender as a video edit in a more tutorial style than in my other Blender post, which was just a brief summary on my experiences with the program. One of the biggest hurdles with video editing in Blender (and Blender in general for that matter) is getting the interface in a usable state to do so. Knowing the interface and how to customise it is an integral part of using Blender in an efficient manner. I found that once I knew the interface the flexibility of Blender really became apparent as well. This video will give you a basic idea of how to use and customise the interface: This video is a good starting point but is more focused at blender as whole rather than specifically video editing. I would also recommend saving any interfaces changes in a .blend file as well, that way you can take the changes and preferences between different computers and don't have to override someones defaults. I'd also be happy to share my Master_template.blend file, which is what I saved my interface under if you want to see what I've done with mine specifically. [image] Another advantage of the Master_template idea is that you can constantly update the interface as you make and discover new work flows and it's an on going thing that won't be destroyed through updates. Just remember not to save over it when you start a new project if you decide to do this The tutorial I found to be the best for a beginner to video editing in Blender is this one: It will show you how to make a basic interface that's really good for basic video editing (You can expand upon it later as yo…

Blender as a Video Editor

(Now that everything has settled down and been decided I'm posting this back up. I initially took it down deciding that I'd put it back up where ever we all ended up) For the last couple of months I have been using Blender to make an Anime Music Video (AMV) since I stopped using Sony Vegas and intended to switch to Linux. Quick note before I go into to much detail, This is not intended as a tutorial, I will not be talking about how to use Blender but rather what it's like to use. Just for reference I will be talking about my experiences making this video: I decided to make an AMV because I had always planned on making one and thought it'd be one of the best ways to learn blender as it'd be a challenge. The first thing I want to clear up about using Blender as a video editor is that it supposedly has a step learning curve but I personally think that's inaccurate. I actually found Blender much more intuitive to use than the likes of Sony Vegas and Adobe premier (I have used both but I have more experience with Vegas) especially when first jumping into it. Adobe Premier was actually hard for me to understand and learn and I ended up dropping it. Blender was much easier to understand and the workflow was great once I set it up for video editing. That's not to say it's perfect though, it definitely has it's quirks since the program is first and for most a 3D Modelling and Animating software. One of these such quirks, that I personally got kind of frustrated with, was that moving the header was considered a "change", so, for example, if I was making some changes, moving the header around a lot and then decided I wanted to undo it all I would have to undo the individual header movements I made (Including Frame by Frame movements, so like 50 moves to undo) and Blender also takes 10-20 seconds to undo something so it took a lot of time when I first started. The easiest way around that problem though is to save before doing major changes and then if you decide you wa…

[Zippy_Parmesian]

This is so cool! Didn't even know there was a conference for Blender. Great tool though. I too am excited to see what we can do with it when it comes to music

[FlameSilver]

Just watched this video and it's probably the most interesting Panel I've watched so far. It's about trying to use Blender for visualising physics simulations, specifically astronomy phenomena

[FaunCB]

I would be more excited had they talked about PPC amigaOS systems or AROS at all as they are faster than the windows systems in blender and blender gets regular updates on those platforms.

[FlameSilver]

They might have? I haven't watch all of the Panels yet and there are some I'm not watching at all just cause I don't think I'd enjoy it.

[FaunCB]

I highly doubt they did or I would have seen it in places. Thees a lot of stuff I want to see and hear about but theres never any representation of it.

If there WAS something on them, timestamp it and send it to me. Even if they just say 'Amiga' in the video I'll be more invested again. I used to just find blender cool but that died lol.

[FlameSilver]

Sure thing. Surely there's someone in the community doing some sort of work on it though? There's a lot going on with Blender all over the place and maybe it's just not big enough to talk about but there's still work on it?

[FaunCB]

Yeah AROS won't get any notes nor will amiga OS. Theres a few devs helping out over there but over all its just some wierd people on the internet lol.