New York City Blender Users Group Meeting

The New York City Blender User's Group (http://www.blendernyc.org) is holding a meeting at NYU-Poly in Brooklyn in Roger's Hall: http://www.poly.edu/directions. Simply go to the front desk for directions to RH207.

The format of the meeting will be one hour of short presentations for anyone who is interested in speaking, followed by an informal work meeting/study hall.

Nick Porcaro will give a short update on the work he has been doing on the Blender Game Engine and Pure Data (http://www.puredata.org) in support of free improv art/music. See http://www.porcaro.org/blendnik.html for more information.

Blender (http://www.blender.org) is a free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. It compares well to software like Maya or 3D Studio Max.

If you want to see what Blender is capable of, check out:
Elephant's Dream: http://www.elephantsdream.org
Big Buck Bunny: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org
Yo Frankie!: http://www.yofrankie.org

These projects were all supported by the Blender Foundation, and you may download all the .blend files for these projects at the sites shown above. Yo Frankie! is particularly interesting in that it represents many recent improvements to the Blender Game Engine, enabling more advanced real time support.

Hope to see you there!