{"id":42101,"date":"2015-05-21T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/?p=42101"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:34:27","slug":"tonight-at-brookdale-computer-users-group-john-lemasney-on-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2015\/05\/21\/tonight-at-brookdale-computer-users-group-john-lemasney-on-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight at Brookdale Computer Users Group: John LeMasney on Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42102\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521-lemasney-at-BCUG-on-Blender.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42102\" data-attachment-id=\"42102\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2015\/05\/21\/tonight-at-brookdale-computer-users-group-john-lemasney-on-blender\/20150521-lemasney-at-bcug-on-blender\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521-lemasney-at-BCUG-on-Blender.jpg?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20150521 &amp;#8211; lemasney at BCUG on Blender\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;20150521 &amp;#8211; lemasney at BCUG on Blender&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;20150521 &amp;#8211; lemasney at BCUG on Blender&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521-lemasney-at-BCUG-on-Blender.jpg?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42102\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521-lemasney-at-BCUG-on-Blender.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20150521 - lemasney at BCUG on Blender\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521-lemasney-at-BCUG-on-Blender.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521-lemasney-at-BCUG-on-Blender.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20150521 &#8211; lemasney at BCUG on Blender (Photo credit: Jo Grazide)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Our guest speaker for the May 21st (this week Thursday eve) graphics workshop is one of our favorite speakers, John LeMasney. For our May meeting John will introduce us to &#8220;Blender&#8221;, a free graphics program with some amazing abilities. Blender allows you to create professional-grade animations and 3D models through a well-laid out interface equipped with a variety of tools. Whether you&#8217;re experienced in digital animation or want to develop your skills, you&#8217;ll find what you need in this comprehensive program.&#8221; &#8211; BCUG Graphics Workshop Meeting &#8211; Brookdale Computer Users Group (Red Bank, NJ) &#8211; Meetup, https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Brookdale-Computer-Users-Group\/events\/222436641\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at Brookdale Computer Users Group: John LeMasney on Blender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,19,7,18,3658,3070,21,23,29,31,32,5,36],"tags":[1648,363],"class_list":{"0":"post-42101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-affiliations","8":"category-classes-presentations","9":"category-consulting","10":"category-cv","11":"category-instructional-technology","12":"category-open-source-consulting","13":"category-professional-activities","14":"category-professional-experience","15":"category-research-interests","16":"category-teaching","17":"category-teaching-experience","18":"category-technology","19":"category-workshops","20":"tag-drawing","21":"tag-graphic-design","22":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521-lemasney-at-BCUG-on-Blender.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-aX3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7750,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2014\/04\/07\/56-365-three-dimensional-coffee-cup-sketchup\/","url_meta":{"origin":42101,"position":0},"title":"56 of 365: A three dimensional coffee cup in SketchUp","author":"lemsy","date":"2014-04-07","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a three-dimensional coffee cup created in SketchUp, the Trimble-owned, free, three-dimensional modeling application. 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