Landon Glodowski Agenda The History of Blender Blender 26 Python Scripts The Blender Foundation The Blender Foundation Projects The Blender Institute Blendernetworkorg Blenders Bad Side History ID: 174913
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Slide1
Blender
Landon GlodowskiSlide2
Agenda
The History of BlenderBlender 2.6
Python Scripts
The Blender Foundation
The Blender Foundation Projects
The Blender Institute
Blendernetwork.org
Blenders Bad SideSlide3
History
Created By Ton RoosendaalDutch Animation Studio,
NeoGeo
, is where the first version of Blender was made in 1995
Roosendaal took it to his new company,
NotANumber
in 1998 but soon shut down in 2002
Convinced old investors to turn blender into an open source projectSlide4
Blender 2.6
Free
t
o download
Has a very small installation package, an average of 115 mg
Includes features such as
3D modeling
UV
unwrapping and
Texturing
R
igging
and
skinning
F
luid/smoke/particle/Soft
body
simulation
Sculpting
Animating
M
atch moving
C
amera tracking
R
endering
video editing and
compositing
A
built-in game
engine
Python scriptsSlide5
Operating Systems Minimal specs for Hardware
Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7 or 8
32
bits, Dual Core CPU with at least 2 GHZ, and SSE2 support.
Mac OS X 10.6 and later
2 GB RAM
Linux
2
4
bits 1280x768 display
FreeBSD
Mouse
or
trackpad
OpenGL
Graphics Card with 256 MB RAM
Average specs for Hardware Production specs for Hardware
64 bits, Quad Core CPU 64 bits, Dual 8 Core CPU
8 GB RAM
16
GB RAM
Full HD Display with 24 bit color Two times Full HD Display with 24 bit color
Mouse or
trackpad
Mouse
+ tablet
OpenGL Graphics Card with 1 GB RAM Dual OpenGL Graphics Cards, quality brand with 3 GB RAM
Figure 1.1 System Requirements [2]Slide6
Python
Python is an open source language “that is often compared to Tcl
, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or
Java
Libraries of user made Scripts add to blenders features Slide7
The Blender Foundation
One of the few incomes supporting Blender
Employs Blenders very few employees
Produces projects to improve the software
Project Orange
Project Apricot
Project Peach
Project Durian
Project MangoSlide8
Orange
The project included
a
full recode of the character animation
system
upgrades
to the rendering system
a
node-based
compositor
The result was “
Elephants
Dream (2006
)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFQxRd0isAQSlide9
This Project focused on the improvement of the game engine
“Yo Frankie (2006
)”
ApricotSlide10
Peach
This
project focused on trying to improve the fur and hair animation.
It
also was used to work on outside environments, which included such elements as
grass.
A
nd also the
animation of cartoon characters.
The
finished project was the short film “
Big Buck Bunny (2008)
”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg9yizPP_gSlide11
Durian
The open
projects actually showing positive
results so they put more
money and effort into their third open movie “
Sintel
(2010)
”.
Targeting
sculpting tools detail,
I
llumination
rendering
A
ll
around
stability
of
Blender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQSlide12
Mango
This Project put animations in the same frames as real actors.
Worked
with Blenders’ motion
tracker
“
Tears of Steel (2012
)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MlUcmOul8Slide13
The Blender Institute
Is there to help organize the open projects and the goals The Foundation was after.
It
also provides a physical building for the projects to be created in that a small staff can work with the invited teams of artists for each project.
Everything
created within the Blender institute uses open source utilities and every finished project is published under an open license to make it available to everyone.
Slide14Slide15
Blendernetwork.org
Blendernetwork.org
is a website that is partnered with the Blender Foundation.
The
site provides
a
place where the users of Blender can be
found.
online
directory and make it possible for users to socialize with other Blender users.
Events
relating to 3D animation and Blender are posted
jobs
people and companies can place on a “virtual job
board”Slide16
Blenders’ Negative Aspects
The
ability to render the
animations
With
Blender files being so small, sending the files to a “render farm” can easily solve the rendering problem.
an
average of 66% of users use an external renderer instead of using the internal renderer included in
BlenderSlide17
Conclusion
Its
creator Ton
Roosendaal built
a program that he was so involved with that he kept it going and kept the community involved also.
Without
the Community’s support and money, open source software would not work as well as it does.
Without
the “corporate greed” involved with so many software programs, Blender was able to remain free and is ever evolving. Blender is a great example of how the typical user can compete with the top names in 3d animation.