Trainings on Open Source Multimedia Instruments

On Sunday, 28.2.2010 in the net.kulture club MaMa in Zagreb, Croatian Blender User Group ‘BlenderHR’ and TOSMI are presenting one of the best Blender 3D artists and director of the first open movie “Elephants Dream” – Bassam Kurdali (USA).

Bassam Kurdali, the award-winning filmmaker, 3D animator, instructor and lecturer, currently is working with talented artists on a five minute animated film ‘The Tube’. The project brings together people from different studios, freelancers, people from universities and other institutions. Bassam will speak about the Tube project and the upcoming version of Blender, 2.5.

Also guests from the Bulgarian association Interspace will present the TOSMI project, the leading educational program for Blender in the region. The meeting starts at 17h in the net culture club MaMa, Preradovi?eva 18, Zagreb (free entrance).

TOSMI 2009 is over!

After three weeks of hard work and hard partying we finally got our deserved rest. Let’s keep connected and look for opportunities to meet again.

We’ll do our best to publish the new trainee’s projects as soon as possible. We have some other materials to be shared as well.

The Application deadline for 2009 TOSMI Courses has been extended until 15th July.
There are two workshops on Blender in 2009:

General Blender Techniques, Tips and Tricks
17 to 22 August, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
Dedicated to those who want to develop, edit, model and produce their own short 3D film.

Blender for Game Artists, Game Art Design
24 to 30 August, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
Blender for Game Art Design is dealing with the aspects of artistic game design, concept design, low-poly character and level design, game modding and machinima.

One course will be dedicated to open source tools for publishing rich media on the web and Web 2.0

Producing Media for the Web, Open Source Software and Web 2.0
10 to 16 August, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
During this course, focusing mainly on Joomla, trainees will learn the benefits of using open source software to deliver media content on the web.

Spend a week of intense, but well balanced curriculum that simulates a production environment. Learn through practice, in an easy going and passionate atmosphere. Work as part of a team, and finish a small movie or a game by the end of the week.

Hurry up and apply for the few places left.
Invite friends and acquaintances interested in 3D film making, game making and design.

PARTICIPANTS FEE
1,000 EUR per workshop, including subsistence costs.
Scholarships are still available!

CONTACT
Margarita Doroska, Project Co-ordinator,
InterSpace Association,
27 Benkovski Str. Ent 2, Ap. 18,
1000 Sofia,
Bulgaria

Tel.: + 359 2 983 48 43
Web: tosmi.org

TOSMI organized a Trainer Workshop at Thessaloniki. There trainers agreed on new details for the separate courses. Here are the updates shortly.

Media For The Web is moving to Joomla. The course actually covers a variety of CMSes, but Joomla has the advantage that it delivers a fully-functioning site right after the installation. Last year we used Drupal, which, although very powerful, is more complicated to manage. There are many online comparisons and analysis of the two systems, outlining that Joomla is more flexible in the short term, while Drupal would be a more strategic choice. Also take a peek into an introductory presentation from last year.

Traditionally the Blender Basics course covers the entire production pipeline of a short video with 3D animation. This year it will also feature character animation.

Game Art Design will be about cell shaded games and virtual worlds. It seems most of us here at TOSMI are bored of photorealism. Also Blender is a perfect tool for level editing and rapid game development. Since it is open source, it is very flexible to adapt to other formats and engines. There are already in development many export scripts, at various degree of completeness for various games, engines and standards.

You could also check out the gallery for some pictures from the event.