http://freefactory.org post somnolent pachyderm adventures Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:01:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week's post brought to you courtesy of the folks at Spark Digital Entertainment, the letter "R" and the color purple. http://freefactory.org/posts/blogged Hi folks, pretty rushed here, deadlines, etc. I'm having a blast- Spark is great ( Rome is pretty nice too, hopefully I'll get some time to really see it later). I'll have no time to get to some tasks until late July, so here are some previews: Get Mancandy v2.3 here. This ... http://freefactory.org/posts/a-taste-of-things-to-come Sparkde is a an animation studio located in Rome that is switching to an open source production pipeline. As part of this effort, I am joining them to help rig and animate an upcoming project in blender. I've been busy rigging this past week and a half,  and will be ... http://freefactory.org/posts/rome-open-source-city Thanks to the efforts of blender users Jedihi and Drip Stone (and no thanks to my slow proofreading self) a MancandyFAQ translation effort is underway; the first goal is to produce timed english subtitles transcribed from the videos, which can then be translated into many languages (I believe the first ... http://freefactory.org/posts/lost-in-translation I just updated my demoreel to the 2007 reel- it's very similar to the old one with a few new things, and it's (sorry) re-encoded from the DVD reel- I couldn't find my original source project (whoops). I'm using the cortado applet from flumotion to stream the .ogg source. I'm not ... http://freefactory.org/posts/2007-reel well, I may have gotten a bit overconfident, but after my wordpress install, and having a bit of a lull, I upgraded to ubuntu hardy (still in prerelease) from gutsy. I've gotten mixed results- nautilus is simply screaming fast on ftp shares compared to how it used to be, the intnl ... http://freefactory.org/posts/upgrade-to-ubuntu-hardy I just upgraded to the shiny new wordpress 2.5. so far it's been very smooth- I'm really impressed at how easy it has been to upgrade wordpress each time. If anyone has any changes/difficulties viewing the site, let me know. http://freefactory.org/posts/wordpress-upgrade Just a quick blog from my hotel in Potsdam, NY- I've been invited to give a talk at Clarkson University about animation in Blender as part of a one day digital arts festival. I'll be showing the Big Buck Bunny teaser trailer, Elephants Dream and Dukduk by Glenn Melenhorst as ... http://freefactory.org/posts/at-clarkson-university [ Brief intro to those reading from graphicsplanet.org: My name is Bassam Kurdali, I'm a film-maker/artist using only free software (mainly blender, inkscape, Gimp on Ubuntu/Gnome/Gnu/Linux ) Mostly animated, but sometimes not. I'm also very interested in Creative Commons, and in exploring ways to do media production in a more ... http://freefactory.org/posts/hi-graphics-planet-elephants-dream-at-momaorg Some people have asked a few questions about the ManCandy FAQ DVD, so here they are, FAQ style: Q. How much is the duration of the video? A. Roughly 7 Hours in total, spread out over 38 files with durations ranging from roughly 2 to 23 minutes. Q. What level are the ... http://freefactory.org/posts/mancandy-faq-information