On 5th November, I had the opportunity to be invited to speak at MyGOSSCON 2009 at the Putrajaya International Convention Center about Open Source Digital Content Creation. The time alloted for all the speakers was unfortunately extremely short (20mins + 5mins Q&A). All the speakers I talked to pretty much commented that its too short to give a good informational talk. As I am the only speaker there showcasing creative arts side of open source, I choose not to use a “normal slideshow”. Throughout my 20mins talk, I just let David Revoy’s Durian’s concept art video flow silently and I see it in the audiences’ eyes that they find it unbelievable that a professional uses Open Source Software to create art. I focus a good 5mins on “its the human that makes the art” while the rest of it I talk about a list of software available in the Open Source world that is used for creative arts covering categories like drawing (raster graphics), illustrating (vector graphics), 2D animation, 3D animation, Audio Editing, Digital Audio Workstation, Music Sequencing and Notation, special purpose software for Guitarist and DJs, etc. During Q&A, I was able to sneak in a lilypond output example while playing a demo from linuxsampler.org. Feedback from the audience is that they were amazed by the quality the Open Source Software can produce. I am not sure how well I do in the event but that’s not important. What is important is I pray that many, if not all of my audience, find my presentation practically useful and kick start their interest in exploring Open Source Digital Content Creation tools.
MyGOSSCON 2009
BUGS Workshop — 2009 Nov 21
Title: Product Vizualization Presenter: Sim Pern Chong (http://www.studiorola.com/) Date: 21st November 2009 Time: 10:00hr Location: SIM University, 535A Clementi Road Singapore 599490 (Ngee Ann Polytechnic Blk 82, Level 2, RM2.02) [map]
BUGS Meeting #4 Report
Since the Blender Challenge was canceled, the BUGS went ahead and planned for Meeting #4 on 24th October @ 10:00hr. UniSIM allowed us to use the room previously reserved for the Blender Challenge Workshop and boy was it a great place to have a meeting and workshop. Will take a picture next time!!
Around 8 people attended and half of which are new so we went around introducing ourselves and get acquainted. Daniel Hand gave a brief of how he uses the cloud to start a render farm while Luther Seet? gave us a low down on Architectural Visualization. Weelian gave a demo on a few very useful built-in python scripts like ones that adds volume to a fedora hat which he speed model it in front of the audience. Sim has a question he could not solve about collada exports and Weelian helped out and got it solved within seconds. Now Sim just have to tell us how it works in his final project when he finishes!!
Upcoming event is a one-hour Workshop by Sim where he will show us how to do product visualization. So stay tune!!
Due to luke warm response, I got a call from Red Hat two days before the 1st briefing that the event has been cancelled. No fear, we will have another challenge soon!
Red Hat Blender Challenge
Its finally arrived. After almost a year of preparation and discussions with Red Hat and UniSIM, The Blender Challenge is here!! The BUGS will be providing 5 workshops to registered competitors, each workshop last about 5 hours and will give a comprehensive overview of Blender functionality. Furthermore, those teaching the workshop, together with Red Hat and others will also be judges in the final round. So, if you are a student in a tertiary education institute, head over to http://redhat.studio912.com/blender/ to get more information. Registration ends 10th of October 2009.
