<div dir="ltr">Ooh, I'd come to a Blender talk.<div><br></div><div>I'm currently using ArtOfIllusion ( <a href="http://artofillusion.org">http://artofillusion.org</a> ) for making 3d print objects. I looked at Blender way back in 2009 or so, but it was very intimidating and maybe overkill for what I am trying to do.</div><div><br></div><div>Just got First Print on a Folgertech Prusa Mendel I3 last weekend, so I am back in the 3d printing game.</div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkinney@jimkinney.us" target="_blank">jkinney@jimkinney.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Blender is an amazing tool! Add in it's solidly open source and that makes it even better.<br>
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Any chance of someone giving a talk on blender for beginners? ALE central has a 65" 4k tv for display :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On March 18, 2016 8:51:32 AM EDT, Jason van Gumster <<a href="mailto:fweeb@monsterjavaguns.com" target="_blank">fweeb@monsterjavaguns.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre><div><div class="h5">Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex"> I made a huge mistake today and installed Blender. Someone posted a picture<br> to FB labeled "How many girls in this picture? I don't have wall size mirrors<br> so I installed Blender and recreated the scene. I'm now playing with it. My<br> last foray into this was with 3D Studio and others back in 94. <br> <br> My conclusion that CPUs are so fast now that render times have dropped is<br> wrong. The scenes have just scaled with resources. I used to start a render,<br> go to work, and come home to see a beautiful 640x480 picture. 1920x1080 today<br> is going to be just as painful. <br> <br> "Surely there is a service that does this for me" came to my head and sure<br> enough, I found many links for render farms. <br> <br> Are there any that are cos
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effective for someone just goofing off? <br></blockquote><br>Welcome to the world of Blender!<br><br>When it comes to farming out your renders, I'd say you have three primary<br>options:<br><br> * Sheep It (<a href="https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com" target="_blank">https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com</a>) - this is a distributed farm,<br> kind of like SETI@home for rendering. I have some friends who speak very<br> highly of it.<br><br> * Renderbot (<a href="http://renderbot.net" target="_blank">http://renderbot.net</a>) - You build your own renderfarm on the fly<br> using EC2 instances on AWS. I've considered this a couple of times, but<br> never quite pulled the trigger on it.<br><br> * RenderStreet (<a href="https://render.st" target="_blank">https://render.st</a>) - Render Street isn't free, but it's very<br> affordable. They even give you a free trial run to start with (so if you<br> just have a few things you need to render, it's essentially free). Their<br>
service is great and they're really the first place I turn to when I'm<br> rendering on a deadline.<br><br>You can also get really far by optimizing your render options (this is true<br>whether you're rendering with Cycles or the older 'Blender Internal' renderer).<br>Feel free to ping me if you have any questions regarding Blender. I'm happy to<br>spend time talking about it.<br><br> -Jason<br><hr><br></div></div><span class="">Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br><br></span></pre></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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