3d 2d Graphics blog

Sorry my english is not good as i wish
1 day : Registration was fast
The meeting with the Blender community at the BOF was great!!
Many people from around the world.
Ton also gift every people with a blender T-shirt SIGGRAPH edition
As usual Ton asked to everyone from were and how many year use Blender.
The meeting continued with a presentation of the progress and features in the new 2.42 and a presentation of the next development after this meeting close with some questions from the users and some discussion about the future of blender, hi said me ther’s someone who work on the snapping feature(i think is Martin Poirier from what i read in the devel ML) in blender and mybe we have it for the blender conference in october
In the afternoon i got a meeting with some italian from Turin at the half day course about “The Chronicles of Narnia” : The Lion. Was really interesting how fur and motion was created for the lion.
I see a little part of the second BOF of the blender foundation “Opensource movie Creation”, many people showed movies and works maded with blender, some interesting architectural animation by Wavk and a presentation of some work modeled in blender and printed with a 3d-printer… the guy donated a real blender coin to all thanks!!!

2 Day: Morning free time
No interesting courses or Bof (form me ) so i and annalisa got some free time to visit Boston and sleep a little more
a fast visit to the Boston acquarium to see the fantastic show of the seals i have a little clip here maded with my phone videocamera hope you like it (33Mb 640×480 3gp format you can see it with last Quicktime)
11.30 at the conference going to the Videogame Symposium Sketches for a fast look a some new way to have vegetation with better shadows i realtime, and a system to compress motion capture data. In the afternoon a fast visit to the Emergin technologies and found a interesting things Shared Design Space a collaborative Augmented Reality setup using a digital pen to manipulate images and documents on a table, a really good project and easy to use with no latency time. Another one was a Wall where many people can manipulate object images, use programs and more like in the Minority Report film just fantastic .
After we go to the Splish Splash Sketches were we see some example and technique used by Digitaldomain , IML , and Blueskystudios (Ice age 2) used to simulate water, wave, collision betwen object and water.
We lost the Autodesk presentation in the near Hotel.. too many people was inside the room but take a beer in the bar, now you know why my english is so bad

ciao