It took a while, but all video tutorials on BlenderDiplom are now on YouTube. The reason: Better support for slower internet connections and chapter marks! That's right, you can click those red timecodes under each tutorial to jump right to your point of interest. What do you think about that feature?

During BlenderDay Adam from LangwasserTV recorded a few of the sessions and I conducted some interviews with interesting people. Watch the whole video report here and get a snipped of an upcoming interview with Jeroen Bakker, developer of the sped-up compositor. Some parts in English!

BlenderDiplom was mentioned in "Digital Production", a (the) German magazine on modern movie and game production. Above you can see a scan of the small review.

Once again I wrote an article for LinuxUser Germany. This time about Open Source Software used for Hollywood VFX and of course Blender. Features an interview with Ton Roosendaal, chairman der Blender Foundation on the current Open Source-Hype in Hollywood.

The second day of BlenderDay 2011 was just as awesome as the first one - and maybe even steeped in history for the German Blender community?

Last weekend I visited BlenderDay 2011 (the German Blender conference) to meet cool Blenderheads from Germany and around and to give a presentation. Here's what happend in those crazy two days:

Wow - this was an exciting experiment indeed. A few days ago I posted the result of an upcoming tutorial so you can have a try to re-create the effect from just what you see. The respone was overwhelming! Let me show you some interesting submissions!

The best way to learn something is to figure it out yourself! That's why I decided to release the result of selected tutorial a few days beforehand so you can use the time to have a go at them!