Last month we completed a 4-second animation of a wizard casting a spell for the header of a new gaming website to be launched called The Gamers Universe (click if you want to cheat and see the final product first). Though I had a very limited timetable with which to complete it (about 20 […]
For the entirety of last week, I was in Raleigh, North Carolina, teaching Digital Animation in Blender at Red Hat High for the second year in a row. Jonathan Williamson (mr_bomb in the Blender community) also returned to teach this year and we added a pair of award-winning Blender animators to our teaching roster: […]
And one to go! This Saturday’s Blender Basics workshop that we announced on the Hand Turkey website went swimmingly. And now, the Basics II workshop is on this coming Saturday, the 16th of June. We’ll be covering some more advanced modeling techniques as well as muscling our way through Blender’s materials settings. […]
As per a recent post on Spread Firefox, all of the Firefox Flicks have been moved to Magnify.net. This will allow more in-depth commenting and rating, as well as allow more Firefox videos to be uploaded.
Of course, on the flip side of this, all of the ratings for each piece have been reset. […]
So we’ve migrated the main Hand Turkey Studios website to a new backend using WordPress and a variety of other cool bits of software. One part of the process was revamping our Print and Animation portfolios to have more friendly navigation. In particular, we really needed to find a way to show our […]
So a lot of little things have happened in the Blender world… and even a few of them are involving Hand Turkey (a-mazing!). Let’s do a run-down in list format!
I, along with Bassam Kurdali, Bob Holcomb, and David Millet, submitted a proposal to the Courses committee for this year’s SIGGRAPH conference. The proposal […]
Well, we had our first Blender Workshop on Friday and all indications point to to a success. We had nine attendees, with some coming in from as far away as South Carolina! And it seems like there is enough interest to warrant more workshops in the future (both on Basics, like this workshop, […]
Well, we’ve announced it everywhere else… might as well make mention of it here.
For the last couple of months, I’ve been working with the folks at cmiVFX on a tutorial DVD for Blender’s integrated fluid simulator. Well, today that DVD has been finalized and released. It’s about 3 hours of instruction, with project […]
For anyone who might be interested, Hand Turkey Studios will be holding a Training Workshop in Blender next month, on the 12th of January. Blender is the 3D modeling and animation suite that we use for most of our animation work in the studio. It’s very powerful and it’s open source, so you […]
