What is the World Blender Meetup Day?
24 Hours of community meetup connecting to a worldwide online conference
Worldwide Meetups
Blenderheads meetups all over the world join together online on one day.
Community Speakers
Speakers giving talks and demonstrations every hour for an entire day.
Watch Online
Follow the stream online on the YouTube Channel for 24 hours of pure Blender joy.
Joining Speakers & City Groups
Welcome to the meetup speakers, organizations, and city user groups joining our worldwide event
Amsterdam Meetup
Matthijs de Rijk
Melbourne Blender Society
Andrew Buttery
Los Angles Blender Users Group
Stirling Goetz
Theory Studios
David Andrade
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Chris Denaro
Sydney Blender Users Group
James Crowther
Blendswap
John Roper
Montréal Blender Users Group
Jayesh Salvi
South Metropolitan TAFE Students (Perth)
Brian Blasgund
Moo-Ack! Productions
Patrick Crawford (TheDuckCow)
Kingsport Blender Group
Byron Kindig
Blender 3D RDU
Jim Wyman
Blender Diplom
Gottfried Hoffman
Seattle Blender Users Group (SeaBUG)
Oscar Baechler
CrowdRender
James Crowther
Independent Speaker
Independent Speaker
Schedule of the Day
Shout out to event speakers, organizers, and the awesome Blender community that participates
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Join several organizers of the World Blender Meetup Day event as we kick off our 2019 WBMD event. We will provide introductions, what to expect, a high level overview of sessions, and how you can participate as the event rolls around the globe.
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
What's happened with CrowdRender for last year
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Creating "Within You", a global game jam game in Blender. Also likely cover the port-in-progress to Armory. https://globalgamejam.org/2019/games/within-you
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Two years ago at WBMD Chris showed a fiddler crab model he had been working on. Now funded as a short film it will be a WIP update
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Student Blender Projects
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Logan Preshaw will talk about Blender’s use in Concept art and quick image creation, going over tools (VR, 3rd party, plugins) and his own processes
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Join Matthijs and the Amsterdam Blender Users group for tips and tricks
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
We will explore the new interface of Blender 2.8. The session would be aimed at beginners and those new to 2.8"
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
EEvEE rendering and particle effects / Blender to Unity Game Engine
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Realistic human head photogrammetry
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Nahuel is a senior modeler and will be presenting on various topics such as principles of hard surface modeling, bevel modifier improvements, utilizing the viewport, and recent Blender projects
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Blender techniques, gotchas, and workflows specific to design of 3D gaming assets
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Blend Swap is a community of passionate Blender artists who share their work under creative commons licenses
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Introductions to Blender 3D RDU, the Raleigh-Durham Blender Users Group
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Blender use for advertising motion graphics and exploration of the Blender 2.8 UI and EEVEE renderer using a test project
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
News overview of Blender developments including, new features, new addons, related open source digital content creation software, new tutorials, new asset libraries, new books, new conferences, and new contents
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Join the SeaBUG to learn how to replicate traditional rendering styles using Blender's Grease Pencil
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Sean Kennedy is a visual effect artist using Blender for film and television Hollywood. In this session Sean will discuss recent projects and share Blender advanced matchmoving tips and tricks.
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Joseph Conover is a VFX and motion graphics artists for television and film who uses Blender to produce amazing art. In this session Joseph will share recent projects and VFX techniques
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
News overview of Blender developments including, new features, new addons, related open source digital content creation software, new tutorials, new asset libraries, new books, new conferences, and new contents
Location: WBMD YouTube Live Stream
Subscribe to the stream
If you want to be kept up to date with the news of the event or when we go live, subscribe to the mailing list here. You can opt out any time, and your email address will be kept safe.
YouTube Channel
The stream will go live on the YouTube channel of the WBMD. You can also subscribe there to get notified (don’t forget to klick the bell icon there as well)
For Meetup Organizers
If you are a MeetUp organizer and you want to join with your MeetUp group, sign up here below.
For MeetUp coordinators that want to join and have already signed up, we have a guide for connecting up with the broadcast during the day. You can also find that here below. For question please send an email to info@worldblendermeetupday.org