Blending with Blender

05/04/2016 58 min

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Episode Synopsis

Blender is a free and open source product that provides a full pipeline for 3D animation, still images, and printing. Bob will talk about and demo the product, his experiences with it and how to get started with Blender.

To whet your appetite, there are some examples of its output (in the hands of experts) here:

Still images:
http://www.blenderguru.com/articles/top-10-blender-artworks-november-2015/
Animations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ulX83sjQAI [pure animation]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjYbA1bWjeE [mixed animation and live performance]
3D printing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWJpLWbsNbk [use of Blender for surgery, perhaps not for the squeamish]
And now you have an excuse to watch cartoons on company time! :-)

There were audio problems during this recording.