We just wrapped up a full-day Blender workshop yesterday under the blazing sun of Pisa, Italy.  The seminar went smoothly and was well received.  A total of 35 attendees showed up despite the fact that the event was announced only a week prior.

In the morning, the attendees got a high level overview of what Blender can do, followed by a crash course on scientific visualization as applied to cellular biology and biochemistry as well as an extensive Python lesson.  In the afternoon, we moved to the computer lab and covered some of the Blender fundamentals, giving a lot of the attendees their first hands-on experience with Blender.

Even though this is my third time running such an event, there is still lots of rooms for improvement.  (For example, Blender 2.5′s UI was corrupt on some of the machines running older Ubuntu installations and Intel graphics chip, which made running the tutorials very challenging)

Photos of the event are on Pisaca.  Special thanks to the Pisa Linux User Group, without them, this workshop would not have been possible.