Happiness, Joy, and Joyness, 2010 has come!

But.. what was 2009 about?, here is a quick overview:

January

Vacations! spent a good time with my family here in Patagonia, first on the south, El Calafate, then went up to the north, through El Bolsón, Bariloche, and surroundings.

February

Time to get back to work!, on Feb 14th I was taking a loooong flight from South South very South America to Scandinavia: Rio Gallegos > Buenos Aires > Amsterdam > Trondheim, Norway. To work on a Blender Game Engine project, the goal was to re-create the “old n’ epically medieval” NTNU building, had to model/texture the entire thing in 2 weeks! was awesome a good skill raiser with such short deadline =)

March-April

Got to fly to Switzerland to meet the RGB Prod crew, whom I joined once again to work on some ads for BOSCH Rexroth New Ingenia and JPM Guides.

May-June

Open Movie Workshop DVD Training Venom’s Lab!, wohoo!, 2 months in Amsterdam got a 4hs Training DVD as result, dream come true!

July

First weeks of July got me packing and sending DVDs all over the world from the Blender e-shop, while at this I took a few days off to give the Blender Store a new skin!, not perfect but definitely more organized, thanks to some thinking together with Ton, I’m glad to have helped the Blender Foundation on this, this thing wasn’t updated since years!.

Enough Europe, on July 15th I was flying back home, Patagonia Argentina.

August

Once at home, got the chance to fly over to San Cristobal, Venezuela! for 10 days, to hold an Advanced Blender Course, big Blender community is getting built there! it was really a great experience.

September

Back at home, some relaxed family time, always blending of course! got some wips continued (evil tease)..

October

Back to Europe!, first to Amsterdam to present Venom’s Lab! on the Blender Conference 2009: AWESOME! , got to meet the Durian team on the Blender Institute: UBER AWESOME!

November

More travelling!, Argentina > the Netherlands > Italy > Spain > Switzerland . First had to go to Brunico, Italy, to work as freelance on an iPhone application project, had to model/texture/rig a Skier and animate him, great experience, really good training! (ok and good food too ), then got to fly to Murcia, Spain, for Blendiberia 2009!, where I held a talk about Blender 2.5, and gave a 2 days Blender course as well. Finally flew to Switzerland for more freelance work on RGB Prod studio, in lovely Aubonne.

December

Back home for holidays!, yay!

2010?

Don’t know yet, more Blender for sure!, Fun, Courses, mmmh..maybe a Venom’s Lab! Vol 2 for Blender 2.6 ?

Share your thoughts!,
Cheers and have a grrrrrrreat 2010!
Pablo