The college students of the city learned more about Android, the operating system used in smart phones, at a technical workshop that began here on Friday.
Organised by the Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal the four-day workshop is an extensive student workshop on Blender Application for Android which would continue till August 25. On the first day of the workshop, Ajit Chiplunkar and his team from Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Mumbai demonstrated the concept of animation and its integration on Android devices using Blender tool. Further, the team from IIT Mumbai would highlight more about the concept to the students during the remaining days of the workshop.
Notably, Android is an open-source operating system used for smart phones and tablet computers. Android powers millions of mobile devices in more than 190 countries around the world. It gives us a world class platform for creating apps and games for Android users everywhere, as well as an open marketplace for distributing to them instantly. Blender is professional, free and open source 3D computer graphics software for creating animated films, visual effects, 3D printed models and much more. The workshop will cover all the concepts connected to the Blender tool like blender interface, manipulating objects, mesh modeling, materials and textures, lightening, animation, modifiers, blender scene and modeling. As many as 100 students participated and learn to create 2D and 3D animations for Android Devices. Notably, during the workshop, the students will also learn basics of animation, about game engine, blender game engine and its implementation on android platform. Praveen Thakral, Chairman and Kavita Burse, Director were also present.