#4 Wherein Jason Rants… a Lot

Show Notes

In this week’s episode I get a bit ranty about a few topics. Not only do I expand upon a bit of a fired-up digression I made in last week’s episode (regarding the nature of how people think about the computer graphics industry… especially people who have been in and around it for a while), but I poke at a few other things like clickbaity headlines from the uniform school of web marketing and the meaninglessness of the term “professional”. All in all, I’d say it’s great fun. Hopefully you think so, too.

Also, also! I sprayed some WD-40 on my clutch pedal. No more background squeaks!

Some of the specific things covered in this episode:

• GIMP Magazine’s call for submissions - GIMP Magazine is looking for artwork and articles. Make with submitting. Deadline is soon.
• Pat David’s Woodcut/Hedcut tutorial - A nice way of achieving a woodcut look with images using GIMP
• ZebraTrace - A nice little program written in Python that generates guilloche/woodcut images in vector format
• Developer news on modernizing Blender’s 3D View - It’s a bit technical, but it’s a nice peek behind the curtain to see what the plan is for making Blender’s 3D View better (many apologies to Anthony “Psy-fi” Riakiotakis for forgetting his last name)
• BlenderArt Magazine call for content - They’re looking for articles and art related to fanart for Issue 46. Deadline is soon.
• Andrew Price’s podcast episode with a horribly clickbaity title - Despite the title, it’s worth a listen
• @SavedYouAClick - A Twitter account to follow that helps get around clickbait markety headlines

And as always, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Post a comment below or where ever you think I’ll read it and let’s talk about this stuff.

6 Archived Comments

Nightmareish, Sept 26, 2014

Yay for WD-40. Agree with you on Andrew Price’s Podcast title being too click-bait-ky. No-rike. Audio length being too long too. Essential substance can be easily summed up to less than 10 minutes of audio. Much soup, less meat.

Guss, 26 Sept, 2014

Oooh! downloading it now. thanx!

Greg, Sept 29, 2014

Another great podcast sir :) I’m really enjoying these. Entertaining as hell, and great speaking+language.

Jason, Sept 29, 2014

Thanks! I was actually a bit worried about this one. But I’m glad to know that you’ve been enjoying them. I’m having a great time putting them together.

Let me know if there’s anything specific you’d like me to talk about.

Thanks again!

Greg, Oct 1, 2014

I suppose I’m at least a little curious about what you think of the Blender Market, and the folks who insist that anything made for blender (add-ons, models, etc) should be free and open-source like blender.

Jason, Oct 2, 2014

Ooh! Good topic. I touch on the Blender Market briefly in the episode I recorded yesterday (I’ll be releasing it later this evening), but it’s definitely worth going into more. I’ll be sure to cover it on episode 6.

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