16-10-2006

I just finished writing a tutorial/Q+A article for 3DWorld magazine. I can’t post any images from it obviously, but if all goes well it should show up in the newsstands in issue 85. The tutorial was fairly involved and fun to write, and delves into animating (in blender) via modifiers and keyframed materials. It’s nice 3DWorld frequently carries blender content- in the past they had many tutorials, they covered the elephants dream movie project during its production, and they recently had an issue around the theme of opensource software in graphics/movie production- I believe it was issue number 80. Writing the articles with FLOSS software is quite handy- I use screenshots and renders from blender, inkscape to create text and overlays, and finally gimp to put it all together and export a .psd document. Coupled with multiple desktops for the different apps, my workflow has gotten quite smooth. For the copy I’m using abiword, though any text editor will do here since there are no format requirements. For future articles I’ll switch blender to use truetype fonts at a large size for the interface so I can capture nice big readable text for the screenies.

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