Training in Open Source Multimedia Instruments.

Trainees are finishing their projects at this very moment. The certificates are waiting for them!

georgi — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:30:47 +0000

The participants of TOSMI 2010, Advanced Blender session, are very close to finishing their project, getting their certificates and partying like crazy!

The video from Day 4 is here!

georgi — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:20:14 +0000

Take a look at a video from Day 3 of Advanced Blender

georgi — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:56:14 +0000

Check out this video from the lecture about Compositing – passes and layers, from the 25th August, the third day of the Advanced Blender session of TOSMI 2010.

Check out the video of the second day of Advanced Blender module of TOSMI 2010

georgi — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:22:31 +0000

Check out this video of the introduction into animation, done by Bassam Kurdali and Mancandy (his own test 3D model). Bassam shows the capabilities of Blender by making Mancandy do various things.

Advanced Blender, Day 4: What happened and what was covered?

georgi — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:36:28 +0000

The fourth day of TOSMI 2010, Advanced Blender session is almost over. Today the trainees learned even more about Compositing, with a focus on passes and layers. After that they went even deeper into Rigging setups, learning clever tricks, like reverse foot setup, stretchy rigs and more.

Here is a short video of the proceedings on the first day of Advanced Blander

georgi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:09:20 +0000

This is the introduction to the Advanced Blender course of TOSMI 2010.

TOSMI Advanced Blender Day 1 from TOSMI on Vimeo.

Advanced Blender, Day 3

georgi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:28:33 +0000

The third day of the second course of TOSMI 2010 is ongoing right now. The trainers gave lectures about Lighting, Shading, Rendering and Compositing. Again many, advanced, difficult, but extremely important things. Yet another hard day for the trainers and trainees.

Upgrade Sofia with Bassam Kurdali, Miroslav Brozovic and Sebastian Koenig

georgi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:53:59 +0000

Presented by InterSpace Association and Sofia Film Fest

27 August 2010, Friday, from 14:00 to 15:30
Cinema House
Sofia, 37 Ekzarh Yosif St

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After coming to Bulgaria as lecturers and trainers at TOSMI 2010 (Training in Open Source Multimedia Instruments), three of the most talented and pronounced Blender 3D artists will make a public presentation at the Cinema House in Sofia.

Bassam Kurdali, Miroslav Brozovic and Sebastian Koenig will talk about their newest ideas and projects involving animation with Blender 3D – currently one of the most powerful 3D content creation suites and the most successful and useful Open Source CGI application. Blender’s popularity and faithful following has been growing rapidly since its first release in 1998 and this year the revolutionary 2.5 version was realized.

Award winning animator and the director of Elephants Dream, Bassam Kurdali, has begun production on his latest short 5 minute film, entitled “Tube”. The project has been in pre-production for several months and is now heading into the production phase. Under the aegis of Arkipelago, an animation and software lab, located in Hampshire college, Amherst, Massachusetts, Bassam is continuing to explore a model that capitalizes on commonwealth. This model is also known as Open Source Film, and it has the same approach as Open Source Software. Bassam teaches, writes and lectures around the world on open production and free software technique and also trains in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.

The Blender Foundation certified trainer Sebastian Koenig will talk about integrating Blender into a professional production pipeline. That involves camera-tracking, modeling, camera-mapping and, of course, compositing. Integrating CG and 3D-content into real-life footage is one of the essential tasks in the VFX film-industry. With its modeling, animation and compositing tools Blender can be a valuable tool in an FX pipeline. Sebastian will present ways to integrate it in such a pipeline, using Syntheyes for camera-tracking and Blender for rendering and compositing.

With his 10 years of experience in 3D, 5 of which actively working with Blender, Miroslav Brozovic has been using it for freelance videos, stills and games ever since. Miro has also been involved as a trainer in several 3D workshops. Based on accumulated knowledge and experience, Miroslav is going to talk about the Blender community in Croatia – its development and current state.

Day 2 of Advanced Blender – summary

georgi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:14:24 +0000

During the 24th of August (Day 2 of Advanced Blender course) the trainers gave a lecture about animation (an introduction to it) using Mancandy (a humanoid model, created by Bassam Kurdali). After that they did a simple exercise ( Mancandy pushes a cube), object and pose animation, graph editor, dope sheet/action editor, keyframing and transformations. Quite a lecture!

But that’s not all! After that the trainees were introduced to the basics in Rigging, as well as Modifiers and Constraints. And finally the trainees started work on their projects.

What happened during Day 1 of Advanced Blender module of TOSMI 2010? Read on

georgi — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:59:53 +0000

Yesterday was the first day of the second course of TOSMI 2010 – Advanced Blender. The trainers and trainees introduced themselves and some of their works, the trainers introduced Blender 2.5 and Subversion and gave a brief on the schedule of the course. After that the trainees were introduced to their projects – they will make a very complex and high quality 3D shot (about 3-6 seconds long), which they can after that use in their portfolios. Also the trainees were split into two teams – team Strawberry and team Cherry (names, specially requested by trainee Luciano Sessarego).