Fantastic experience!
On 20 and 21 May I gave it two lessons on blender and animation at the Assembly Hall , Department of Mathematics and informatics, University of Catania.
The great hall was crowded and the course was followed both by informatic students who already knew blender and art students who first approached the computer graphics.

The first day we talked about the secrets of good posing and classical principles of animation, while the second day we saw how you can apply these principles in blender 2.5.

This trip to Catania gave me the opportunity to meet people absolutely fantastic first Professor Giovanni Gallo thank you for the wonderful hospitality and then the boys and the girls of Reibe studios with whom we have also made a jaunt to see the wonderful Sicilian landscape.

Fernando Luceri

3d  3days  3events in 3cusped island

From 20 May, in the splendid backdrop of Sicily,  are going to be held
a series of Events which Computer Graphics theme will be.

The second edition of

Hot Flowing Pixel Festival

a festival of short animated movies created by Giovanni Gallo, Professor of Computer Graphics at the University of Catania, organised by the not for profit association Erbematte together with Federico Lupo of Galleria Zelle in Palermo

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During the evenings, the short 3D animated movie

froggy is back

from the reibe studio, will be presented.
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It also proposes a seminar and CG workshops entitled:

“Animation: principles and practice in Blender 2.5″

by Fernando Luceri
two lessons at the Assembly Hall , Department of Mathematics and informatics, University of Catania which incorporates and expands on the ideas expressed in the workshop in Turin
see you at the foot of the volcano!

Fernando Luceri

I built this hut to test the possibilities of realism of the internal engine of Blender in archeleogical virtual reconstruction.
Since this object will not be part of the final work (assuming you manage to complete) i’m pleased to release in creative commons license

Fernando Luceri

Note: the object is released without the texture because some of these are not creative commons license

download: capanna.zip (3.53MB) added: 16/02/2010 clicks: 280 description: compressed blend file without texture

I had prepared a presentation avoiding blender extremism,
something that was accessible even to those not using blender
the choice has proven successful

I intend to prepare a document of what was said during the workshop

congratulations to the organizers!

Fernando Luceri

Fernando Luceri

I was invited to do a workshop at the View Conference 2009

http://www.viewconference.it/

http://digital-media.top-ix.org/open-source-per-la-creativita/english/

This is the title and abstract

Blender Advanced Character Animation. – Fernando Luceri
Detailed analysis of the character animation features of Blender introduced with the upgrade from the current 2.4.x and the upcoming 2.5 version. The new version of the software brings a higher level of flexibility introducing a revolutionary interface to interact with three dimensional shapes.

The workshop was also presented on cgsociety.

http://features.cgsociety.org/story.php?story_id=5288&referer=rss

My name appears after  Paul Debevec!
indeed a great responsibility

Fernando Luceri