ArtTech 2009

I thought i'd post these preliminary (can be subject to small changes) schedule for the stand (located in the Lapin Kulta area of Hartwall Arena):

• Thursday 6.8.2009 from 12.00 - 20.00
• Friday 7.8.2009 from 11.00 - 20.00
• Saturday 8.8.2009 from 10.00 - 20.00
• Sunday 9.8.2009 from 10.00 - 14.00

I'm excited to say that we're doing collaboration with the good people from the IRC channel #blender.fi. This means that almost all the time there will be somebody showing off Blender and explaining how to model and animate with it.

Special Blender program on Saturday 8.8.2009:

Myself and Nathan Letwory (jesterKing) will be presenting in the ArtTech 2009 festival on saturday from 13.00-14.00 (Finnish time, CET+2). The presentation can be followed through AssemblyTV and will be made available as Video-on-Demand within 12 hours of the presentation on the Assembly website.

Apart from this, we're preparing a special program for saturday 8.8.2009 and should you come by the Renderfarm.fi stand at almost any time during the day (apart from the seminar session, when you should definately be at the seminar hall), we will have Blender and Blender 2.5 demoing, Renderfarm.fi demoing etc.

Finally the you should also come to just participate in the competition and win either a Renderfarm.fi t-shirt or a "Essential Blender" book by Roland Hesse. Prizes are drawn daily!

We're getting prepared to spend a long weekend at the Assembly 2009 (http://www.assembly.org) demo convention. Among other things, we'll have a Renderfarm.fi booth, a lot of funny giveaways and a all-weekend competition to win "official" Renderfarm.fi t-shirts (picture of these later - people familiar with BOINC people will hopefully appreciate the whole pun after seeing these :), huge banners, Blender demoing at the stand (thanks to the good folks at #blender.fi), Renderfarm.fi adds on the big screen at the Arena and AssemblyTV.

Finally myself and Nathan Letwory (alias JesterKing) will be talking about Renderfarm.fi, it's integration with Blender and Blender 2.5 in general at the ArtTech 2009 seminar, which is taking place at the same time as the convention itself. This will be also broadcasted as video-on-demand to the Internet. The official topic is "Integrating publicly distributed rendering with Blender: Case Renderfarm.fi" and you can read more about the preface here: http://www.assembly.org/summer09/seminars/sessions/?searchterm=Renderfarm.fi . We'll also provide at least daily updates and pictures about the convention and what is going on both at the Renderfarm.fi booth and the convention itself. Stay tuned. -Julius