Demos
So, you're an artist, and your favourite program (or combination of programs) isn't in the programme. Why not offer yourself up as a sacrificial lamb on the altar of demos?
In Greek mythology, Deimos was the god of dread or panic, which seems strangely appropriate.
The word demonstration comes from the latin demonstrare, to explain completely. Monstrare in turn comes from monstrum, meaning "divine omen or wonder". So we can think of a demonstration as a demystification.
The word shares its roots with monster, meaning something we don't understand.
So demonstrations are dreadful affairs where we demystify monsters.
If you feel up to the task of scaring off other people's monsters with a big flashlight, sign up here to give a demo. It could be as simple as using Blender to create an animation, or as complicated as drawing a square in the GIMP.
Andy Fitzsimon
Inkscape Demo's for any subject: tips, tricks, hacks and techniques monstersbegone
A workflow demo already being presented in schedule.
Neil Howe, Xara Group CTO
A demo and presentation on Xara Xtreme LX in Saturday's schedule at 11.00am.
Charles Moir, Xara Group CEO
A demo and informal discussion on Xara Xtreme (14.00 to 15.00 on Sunday).
Rui Campos
(Talk in English) Blender 3D Workshop: Blender Initiation (tentative schedule to 14:00 - 15.30 Saturday)
Learn how Blender works, the interface and workflow.
(Talk in English) Blender 3D Workshop: Human Anatomy and 3D (tentative schedule to 09:00 - 11:00 Sunday)
Human anatomy overview and then modeling a basic body shape.
(Talk in English) Blender 3D Workshop: Human Anatomy, detailing a Model (tentative schedule to 13:00 - 14:00 Sunday)
Detailing the previous model. (Due to Concurrency with other Blender Workshops this workshop might be cut down)
(Talk in English) Blender 3D Workshop: Blender 3D CVS, what to expect in the future (tentative schedule to 15:30 - 16:00 Sunday)
Blender workshops closing with a demo of the current CVS version being cooked.
Brecht Van Lommel
(Talk in English) Blender 3D Workshop: Blender Development Initiation (tentative schedule to 15:00 - 15:30 Sunday)
Introduction to CVS session above, on development process, what's being worked on, and getting involved.
Raphael Betemps
(Talk in English) Blender 3D Workshop: Blender Character Animation (tentative schedule to 14:00 - 15:30 Sunday)
How to combine Blender animation tools to make character animation and lip sync.
François Guillet
Art of Illusion : demo (modelling, texturing and photorealistic rendering) and informal discussion (features, usage, etc.) ~1 hr
Tor Lillqvist
Using Photoshop plug-ins from GIMP on Linux. If my laptop doesn't want to cooperate with the projector poke me for a personal demo.