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- Friday 25th Oct 11:00
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Add-on Development Panel
The recent updates in Blender 2.80 have been widely accepted as a huge step in the right direction, especially for the artists. But how have these changes impacted add-on developers? Have some of the previous areas of friction gone away? Have some been introduced? Let's talk about how add-on developers use Blender in unique ways, where could add-on development in general can be polished, and what would make add-on development easier?
Speakers
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I am an associate professor and department co-chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Taylor University and a tool developer at CG Cookie and Orange Turbine. Some of the courses I teach at Taylor include computer graphics, HCI, computer vision, data structures and algorithms, programming languages, web design, and game engine architecture. At CG Cookie and Orange Turbine, I …
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Sybren works as software developer at Blender HQ. His roles there are project lead of the Layered Animation project, and module coordinator of the Animation & Rigging module. He also works on the render farm management software Flamenco.
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Creator of The Grove, the 3D tree growing addon for Blender. For the past 5 years, I’ve been trying to solve the puzzle of tree growth – through relentless trial and error I’ve implemented a great number of hypotheses of scientific papers, books, and many of my own observations. It’s been quite a ride so far - slowly unraveling the mysteries of tree growth, and relentlessly catching up with 200 m…
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Addon developer, animator, and VFX artist. Advanced Software Development Engineer at Crane Currency. Founder of Bricks Brought to Life with credit in The LEGO Ninjago Movie; developer of Bricker addon for Blender; founder and CEO of Bricker Builds.
Contributed significant code towards the development of Retopoflow, D3Tool, and many other Blender addons.
