A t-shirt -of course- that says : “I survived project Mango” …
But then forget the usual part about only getting the t-shirt: On the contrary ! you really get lots out of participating to an open movie at the Blender Institute!
And also , the project is not over , it’s actually running at a crazy pace. (So, don’t worry guys , there’s time for the t-shirts .. but make it a Pablo Londono’s design ! )
For me, the top 2 things I got out of it, are the opportunity to work on just what I like the most : the gloomy charm of a post-apocalyptic urban environment ? -and Amsterdam none the less- ? plus some rusty decayed sci-fi machinery ..can’t ask for better.
But perhaps more important is getting to work with the team , and just everyone was super-great, and it really makes a difference working and spending time in such an environment : I’m talking about the scary-good ninja artists in the team, but also Ton (himself!!) and the developers (and I was lucky to meet quite a few of them!) ..it really gives a different perspective to Blender not just as a piece of code but a more complex project and network of people.
So here’s the video I recorded for the weekly : there’s an awful lot of trivial technical questions in it .. but that’s the reality of the job :)
Cheers to everyone ! see you again soon on these pages.
Wow Thank you Nicolò for this really nice informtations!
The Mango Team is just amazing!
You know you can keep using Gnome 2 forever Nicolo ;)
Hi , indeed gnome 2 forever !
It’s actually xubuntu .. in the last months i tried about everything : i left for the institute with my workstation still using the last Ubuntu with gnome2 , and the machine i got there was the same (some had more recent , some the latest) i fought with gnome3 on my laptop all the time i was there and asked Campbell for suggestions near the end , he told me about openbox .. so i tried it ,but to keep it simple i then tried lxde (quite nice , but i was missing some more configuration GUIs..)
So when i got back and finally got a brand new workstation to replace my elderly q6600 , i went for something even more ‘standard’ and installed Xubuntu .
I’m quite happy with it , still some minor things to learn again , but works pretty well !
next project… don’t make an open movie… make an open game project… :D
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/01/10/project-gooseberry-announced/ However, maybe Ton’s plans changed :)
Yes please! I love Blender games.
Still if they make a movie project again it would be nice if it were a feature length… just to prove that Blender is up to the challenge.
Hw ever awsome this is and hate to say so
would 1k/2k ruin ur butiful 4k video recordings
other than that thus awsome gob smackingly awsome
even that doesnt justify it
why oh why do so many people making Blender vids and tuts for others to watch not use normalization for sound. I can’t hear a thing on my laptop. Let me repeat NORMALIZE the sound on everything you make! Its simple, its easy. For some reason its not in the vse yet; but one push of a button and all your mumblings are audible!
Normalize .. i’ll remember that.
The audio was a pain to get any decent : my new superawesome machine must have some software (audio drivers) or HW issue , and the noise levels were horrible (must have been lucky with the previous mobo , most machines in studio had same issues)
Definitely i have to find better recording mic/drivers-settings/software for future videos.
Good Bye :) It was a horner to watch you work :)
Nicolo: you’ll get the team shirt at the premiere :)
Great, thanks :) !
Looking forward to the premiere!