Dear All, SPACE jointly with YMCA trivandrum organize an awareness programme on Blender on 17th October 2008 at YMCA Hall, Statue, Trivandrum Time: 5:00 PM Programme ------------------- An Introduction to Blender - A Free Software 3D modeling and animation tool There will be screening of 2 animation movies made with blender after the presentation. 1) Elephants Dream 2) Big Buck Bunny Short description of Blender: Blender is a free software 3D graphics application. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. Blender is available for several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, IRIX, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD with unofficial ports for BeOS, SkyOS, AmigaOS, MorphOS and Pocket PC. Blender has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to other high-end 3D software such as Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Lightwave and Maya. These features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a node based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting. http://blender.org