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Blender-PT conference

In April 2013, there will be a conference in Oporto (http://problender.pt/en/conf2013/ ) to show the Blender potential in the Portuguese comunity.
For that, I've prepared a simple case where Blender can be used for example to visualize statistical data:

The data can also be shared to be explored in a simple browser:

"O Parque" - stop-motion movie

During holidays, in a cloudy afternoon I decided to introduce my 4 years old daughter in animation. Not to work with Blender since it is a bit complicated for now (let's wait 1 or 2 years...) but with the stop-motion technique, taking several photos to create the illusion of movement.
It was funny to create it, now she knows how some of her favourite tv programs are made and who knows if she will be interested in the area.
The story is nothing special, just a day at the park ("O Parque"), the post-production was made in Blender. Here it goes:

Short movie animatic - Complete

So I've finally finished the 2nd and longest animatic scene of the short movie and I compiled everything. It is probably still not fully understandable due to missing details, but you can have the idea of the final version that will be based on this sketch:

Albert - Final version for competition

Here is the final version for the forum.blender-pt.com competition. I'll probably improve it but for now this is the version I submitted.

Short movie animatic - 3rd shot

Here is the animatic of the 3rd and final shot of the short movie, since the scenery is the same as the first scene. It's now missing the 2nd and longest shot.

Short movie animatic - 1st shot

I keep developing the short animation movie I'm planning to make in the next months. The script is finished, the characters concept is under development and I started to make the animatic to set times and to see how much scenery has to be made and how many secondary characters will be included.
So here it is the first shot animatic, which might make sense to you only in a few months.