Blender Studio at BCON23

As usual, the team from the Blender Studio took an active part in the 2023 Blender Conference, by showcasing their different skills and techniques in many talks.

Live tutorials

• Julien's Sculpting Live Session - the work file can be found below.
• Rik's Tackling Facial Animation
• Simon's Simulation Nodes: Making Nodes Come to Life
• Demeter's Rigging With Geometry Nodes on "Wing It!"
• Nick's talk on the Blender Studio Pipeline

Animation talks

• Hjalti's The Reference of Animation
• Pablo and Hjalti participating in a panel for Animation Tricks of the Trade

About projects

On Saturday, main engineers Brecht and Sergey offered a glimpse into what the next movie will look like with their talk on Creating new tools for lighting and rendering - Tech for Gold.

Then the conference ended with a bang, as we gathered for the Studio Production Session: comparing processes between Charge! and Wing It!

Files to play with

Here is the blend file from Julien's talk, for anyone to try their hand at sculpting the monkey:

Blender File · 149.2 MB · CC-BY monkey2023_shared.blend

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And let's not forget Beau's work on the interstitials that accompanied the animation festival. He had fun working with this year's colorful designs, also creating the sounds that accompanied the visuals. Download the best design interstitial:

Blender File · 3.5 MB · CC-BY bcon23_interstitials.bestdesign-60fps_packed.blend

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We hope you enjoy(ed) all those presentations, we're looking forward to sharing more content in the next weeks - as we usually do!