I got to meet a lot of people including a person whom I have heard of a lot from my professors, Praseed Pai. He is a genius, I found it rather puzzling, how a person can have such a wide ken of knowledge. The talks were on the projects that the speakers have been working on, mine being on a script that I had submitted to Blender 3D, namely the drop to ground script. The wiki page of my add-on can be found here, http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.5/Py/Scripts/Object/Drop_to_ground.

I started my session by showing a trailer of an open movie that was developed by the Blender Foundation, Sintel. My aim was to show how powerful a software of such minuscule size can get. Then I moved on to give a brief introduction on Blender 3D and the different areas where a contribution is possible. I had been working in the add-ons section, so my expertise was more on Python and the blender scripts. Then I went on to describe how the code worked and also answered some doubts on a particular feature, Ray-casting, that I implemented to achieve the upshot. The script basically allows you to drop some objects onto a certain ground along the z-axis, with or without aligning it to the ground. Then during the climactic sections of the sessions I took the opportunity to explain how one can start development in blender 3D.

Once the session ended I talked to the attendees and was given a good review coupled with advice on how my skills can be improved. Overall I had a wonderful experience which I will cherish forever.