Jason van Gumster

2391 points

Atlanta, GA

Jason van Gumster mostly makes stuff up. He writes, animates, and occasionally teaches, all using open source tools. He's run a small, independent animation studio, wrote Blender For Dummies and GIMP Bible, and continues to blurt out his experiences during a [sometimes] weekly podcast, the Open Source Creative Podcast. Adventures (and lies) at @monsterjavaguns.

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DigiVita uses Blender to teach girls to code

The field of computer graphics has continued to prove itself as fertile ground for getting kids interested in code and technology. It isn't just about the extremely gratifying…

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Glass Half: The latest open movie from the Blender Institute

At this year's Blender Conference, the Blender Institute released its latest open movie project, Glass Half. You can watch the full three minutes of this short animation in…

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Using Blender to prepare for orthopedic surgeries

The planning of orthopedic surgeries is a difficult process. In a lot of ways, it's like working while wearing a blindfold; a surgeon can't see the bone that needs to be…

Teaching teens 3D animation with Blender

Tom H aines is the director and co-founder of 3Dami, a nonprofit educational program in the UK that focuses on teaching 3D animation to teens with ages ranging from 14 to 18…

Visualize astrophysics data with Blender

The Blender Conference has become a fantastic showcase not just of attractive art and animation, but also unconventional uses of Blender and open source software. One of the…

Heat your home with your neighbor's computing power

This year's Blender Conference was filled with all kinds of interesting talks about interesting uses of Blender and open source technology. A particularly novel one that…

Authored Comments

Jason van Gumster

14 Aug 2017

We're giving away FOUR LulzBot 3D printers

Oooh! These sound like great ideas for articles.

For what it's worth, I have a short series of articles here on Opensource.com on getting started in 3D printing with Blender (the linked article is the 3rd in the series, but there are links at the beginning to the preceding two parts).

Jason van Gumster

31 Jul 2017

4 lightweight email alternatives to Thunderbird

Been a long-time happy user of Claws Mail. About the only complaint that I have with it is that it's still reliant on GTK2... and that's a recent complaint of mine when using higher resolution screens. Hopefully that'll change sometime in the near future, though.