You might know already that Blender 2.63 is out (if not, go get it!), besides all the awesome additions it has, there are two minor contributions I did
Theme Options
From left to right, the three new theming options I added, only the first two of them are in Trunk though, the third one the main developer of the animation editors wasn’t 100% sure, should ask again.
Theme Cameras and Empties
Theme VSE’s Preview Background
Theme Keyframes in Dopesheet
1. Cameras and Empties in 3D View
When working on big scenes I found myself struggling to find where the cameras were in the 3D View, you can always use the Outliner or just the Select > Select All by Type menu, but why just not theme it with another color?
2. VSE Preview Background
This is an option to theme the background for Video Sequence Editor’s preview, needed this a couple times, it is useful for colorgrading or keying work (used to be plain black). And it was actually marked as TODO in the code
3. Keyframes on Dopesheet Editor
While this seems more eyecandy than any other thing, this option to change the color of the keyframes and its borders is actually useful, sometimes the default colors are not perfect. This didn’t make it to Blender 2.63, but if there is people interested on it I could give it a try for 2.64. The (old, against r45130) patch for this is here in PasteAll.org.
That’s it!, if you’re using Blender 2.63 then this two options are already there, update your themes! Not huge but these are babysteps on something I love to do on my spare time: Destroying my favorite software: Blender (A.K.A. “programming”)
Can you think of something else you miss being able to theme? Leave a comment or tweet me!
So! Were you in any of the last bcon’s around? Such as Blender Conference Amsterdam, Blendiberia in Spain, or BlenderPRO in Brasil? Well, then maybe your drawing is on this book, if not, lets wait for the next bcon!
Short story is:
The awesome Martín Eschoyez makes this drawing books (a ‘Cartapacio’) by himself, in 2011 he was awesome enough to organize CheBlender (Argentinean bcon) and invite me over, he ended up paying my flight ticket (not cheap at all, even though I was in Argentina as well, I’m from the penguins land!), food and so on out of his pocket, pure Blenderhead awesomeness. So I wanted to give him a present.
I took a copy of this special Blender cartapacio he made, to a few Blender conferences, and asked people around to draw something on it, here is the result.
Idea: I’m thinking in doing the same this year, but to leave this book on the Blender Institute as a souvenir for all the awesome blenderheads that every year meet at bcon’s and do some tourism on the BI, I already asked Martín and he is willing to make a special Blender Conference(s) 2012 book
Note: Everyone I asked for, agreed on having this book published online, some even added their URL/Email, but if for some reason you don’t want your drawing online, just ask! and I’ll remove it right away with a smile.
Yep! Time for more workshops, this time in Cancún, México! Like I did back in 2010 right after Sintel.
I’ve been also giving talks and workshops here in Pachuca, also México.
Places involved:
Universidad La Salle, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México.
UNID – Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México.
Universidad de Bellas Artes, Real del Monte, Hidalgo, México.
Universidad Politécnica de Tulancingo, Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México.
Plus 2 weeks workshop for advanced blenderheads + 2 weeks for beginners as well + 1 week of tips/tricks and special training for advanced students willing to get their certification as Blender Foundation Certified Trainers. Fun!
That’s it for now, will be this month here in México, don’t know for sure about the upcoming months, any ideas?
If you ever tried my pink theme, but (even as I did) stopped using it because of it being troublesome to update, move from one release to another via startup.blend or python scripts, now is easier than ever to have it back
Since yesterday, this theme (now named “Pinkified”) is part of “Contrib” SVN, so if you checkout this SVN periodically you might have it already!.
XML
This theme is in XML, a format Blender supports since January 10th, so if you’re using the official 2.61 release you won’t have access to it yet, this feature will be on 2.62, but you can (should!) always try using a more recent version from GraphicAll.org, or the official Blender BuildBot.
This post is mainly for Spanish speaking/understanding people (maybe Italians/Portuguese/French can follow a bit
(I’m embedding a video of a talk I gave at the Spanish annual blender conference, Blendiberia. No subtitles though so not a lot of fun for english speakers)
Hola a todos!
Pasó mucho tiempo pero mejor tarde que nunca, ya lo he compartido por Twitter y Facebook, pero una vez más les dejo la charla que dí en Blendiberia 2011, en Móstoles (Madrid), España.
Sintel – Open Projects @ Blendiberia 2011
Además de esta charla durante la conferencia, previo a esta dimos un taller de Blender junto al gran Álvaro Luna Bautista (Samo), que cubrió la parte de iluminación-render en YafaRay, y yo el resto, contando con su apoyo (era un gran grupo!).
Quisiera agradecer especialmente a Jorge Gascón y Álvaro Perez por la genial organización y soporte en esa fabulosa semana que pasé en Madrid, traigo muy lindos recuerdos y no veo la hora de volver!
so not a lot of fun for english speakers)