[wplug-announce] Movie showing Saturday, July 26, 5pm-7pm, Creative TreeHouse

[Vance Kochenderfer]

The Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group is holding a special
showing of two short films plus a presentation on the Blender
open-source 3-D animation software on Saturday, July 26, 2008.
This event will be held at the Creative TreeHouse in Bellvue.

The schedule is:
  5:00 PM - Doors open
  5:20 PM - Screening of Elephants Dream
  5:35 PM - Screening of Big Buck Bunny
  5:45 PM - Presentation on Blender
  6:30 PM - Q&A, Discussion, and Socializing
  7:00 PM - All done!

Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny are two short films created with
the support of the Blender Foundation.  They are "open source" in
both the sense that they were created using open-source software
and because the finished films and production files are available
under a Creative Commons license.

Presentation Topic: "Blender and Producing Open Source Movies"
Speaker: Roland Hess

Roland Hess is a member of the Blender <http://www.blender.org/>
development team, worked on Elephants Dream, and has written the
books "The Essential Blender" and the forthcoming "Animating with
Blender."  He'll briefly cover Blender's history and development
and then move on to how it's used.  Roland will give an
introduction to the interface and production workflow and go into
some of the cool lighting and character animation features, plus
new stuff that is soon to be added.

Our host, the Creative TreeHouse <http://creativetreehousepgh.com/>,
is a shared creative studio, meeting place, and creative service
located minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.  The Creative Treehouse
has a 7,500 square foot shared studio that offers a space for
creative professionals to collaborate, network, work, play, and
share/expand their knowledge.  The same studio acts a meeting place
for members and organizations to throw exhibits, educational
workshops, and events for the general public to attend.  Creative
TreeHouse also acts a resource for local businesses and helps to put
them in contact with some of Pittsburgh's top creative professionals.
The address for Creative TreeHouse is
  517 Lincoln Ave
  2nd Floor
  Bellevue, PA 15202
and a Google map to this location is at <http://tinyurl.com/5hlnnh>.

The public is welcome, and no RSVP is necessary.  The home page for
this meeting can be found on the WPLUG wiki at
<http://www.wplug.org/w/index.php/Meeting-20080726>.