http://www.handturkeystudios.com Animation, Illustration, Print Design, Software Training, Ridiculousness Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:10:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blender: Compositing Techniques with Render Passes In a partnership with CG Channel and cmiVFX, a second episode of free online tutorials was launched. This time around it's a tutorial by Hand Turkey Studios' Jason van Gumster covering composting techniques with render passes in Blender. Registration is free, sign up today ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/50 Hand Turkey Studios recently created a logo for the open source Flash video player, FlowPlayer. FlowPlayer is a very useful player that can be embedded into any website to play videos in the Flash video format. It is used on such large sites as The Internet Archive and ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/48 In the October 2007 issue of 3D World magazine (Issue 95), there is a review of the Advanced Blender Fluids training DVD that Hand Turkey Studios produced with CmiVFX. The training DVD received a rating of 8 out of 10 stating that "for pros who need the option of ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/46 As we did last year, Hand Turkey Studios participated in this year's Red Hat High program. Jason van Gumster traveled to Red Hat headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina for one week to teach 3D animation with the open source program, Blender, to a group students with ages ranging from ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/41 Hand Turkey Studios will be offering two Training Workshops on Blender in June. Details on each workshop are listed below: Blender Basics Date: Saturday, 9 June 2007 Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Location: Apex Digital (900 West Broad St., Richmond, VA 23221 - map) Cost: $50, payable via Cash, Check or Credit ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/36 Hand Turkey's Jason van Gumster will be at the Defrag Ohio Conference April 12th until the 14th at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio (just west of Cleveland). He will be exhibiting some student work from last year's Red Hat High summer technology camp and at 2:00 PM ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/35 We tweaked our website. Overall, it might look about the same, but we've packed it with quite a few new features and niceties. For instance, this news page now generates an RSS feed which you can Live Bookmark in Firefox or add to your feed reader/aggregator of choice. ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/33 Due to the success and the amount of interest created by the Blender Basics Workshop we held in January, Hand Turkey Studios will be offering another Training Workshop on Blender in February. Details on the workshop are listed below: Date: Friday, 23 February 2007 Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: The ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/3 Hand Turkey Studios has teamed up with the visual effects training professionals at cmiVFX to announce professional grade training for the Blender community and visual effects artists at large. Blender is the most reknowned open source 3D modeling and animation suite; a freely available tool capable of producing stunning still images ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/4 Hand Turkey Studios will be offering a Training Workshop on the open source 3D modeling and animation suite, Blender in January of the new year. Details on the workshop are listed below: Date: Friday, 12 January 2007 Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: The Work Factory (1113 West Main St., Richmond, ... http://www.handturkeystudios.com/archives/5