Blender Institute Podcast #047 - Mantissa
- 10 Feb 2017
- 1 min read
Happy release! Blender 2.78b is out, will there be a 2.78c? Our special guest Midge (AKA The Mantissa) uses the latest anyway, and he will be using it soon for a new Motion Graphics training on Blender Cloud. Dr Sybren is back this time with updates on Alembic support in Blender 2.8. Agent 327 keeps going strong and as always we answer all your questions. Buckle up, it's Blender Institute Podcast 47!
In this podcast: Andy, Hjalti, Pablo, Dr. Sybren and special guest Midge Sinnaeve
>You can find the free .blend file of the header artwork on Midge's folder in the Art Gallery.
Music: Blabetté de Metz (Psy-Jazz Mix) - (cc-by-nc) keytronic
7 comments
Question from a random fan: How do you guys deal with personal anxiety? As artists and as humans?
Question : You guys seem tired in this time nearing the deadline (at least Hjalti but he's the only one showing himself on camera). Knowing a bit of how they work at Pixar (extreme example I know), I wonder how you manage your working rythm (pauses, sleep, exercise, etc) to keep a refreshed perception of your work and keep efficiency (and optionally, health). In any case, I know you will blow our minds once more and I am behind you waving a Blender Inst. scarf !
Yay for motion graphic tutorial! ^__^ Does the shot tools or chops tools addon available online?
@johantri: yeay
Question for the next podcast: Any chance we might see a Blender scripting/addon creation training?
@Simon_L.: I asked for sth similar at BCON16. There is a Python training on Blender 101 here. I didn't follow it yet as I decided to learn Python itself more seriously first, but I will probably take a look at it afterwards. It's more aimed at children but I guess there are still things to learn for everyone from it. There is also this wikibooks training. Otherwise Thomas Beck may accept to do some video training for Python on Blender, I would appreciate that too. If you want to ask him directly, tell him I could use that too. And sorry for answering before the podcast.
@ChameleonScales: Thanks for the links - the wikibooks training looks good for a start. But it would be even better to have something official from the blender-developers who do this everday (or every week).
At nearly every conference there was something about scientific visualisation - maybe that would be a nice entry-point for a scripting tutorial with a target audience? Or maybe explain two or three of the classical helper-scripts they talk about: "Yeah, so PERSON wrote me a script and now its so much faster to work with XYZ..."
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