* Brief introduction to Blender

Explain Blender as a fully featured 3d suite: modeling, animation,
compositing, etc.

** Show a couple of render stills
** Possibly show a couple seconds of a python-generated animation

Probably will demonstrate the brief telephone-operator-scene from
Elephants Dream, which was python scripted, as an example of an
animated scene

* Brief demo of UI

** Open a new file
** Add a cube
** Show the cube being animated from point A to point B

This should be pretty quick to demonstrate.  Will be necessary for
explaining the Blender's datastructure next.

* Introduction to bpy

** What is it?

 - bpy is Blender's new Python API
 - Pretty much a complete overhaul of the Python API in 2.5X from the
   2.4X and previous API
 - A lot of it is "automatic" thanks to the RNA and operator designs
   of Blender 2.5X

** bpy.data: Exploring Blender's datastructure

** bpy.ops: Operators

*** Discovering operators for your scripts: Blender 2.5 is self-documenting

 - Grab and move a cube, look at the logging
 - All key commands are bound to operators, all buttons are operators.
 - We can find a python equivalent by doing an action and checking the
   logging or

*** bpy.types.Operator.execute(): operators as actions

Demonstrate some hello-world type examples

*** bpy.types.Operator.draw(): operators as UI elements

 - Demonstrate some hello-world type examples
 - Also demonstrate properties-as-ui-elements

** Panels in the UI

Scripting the UI is pretty much the same as scripting the operator,
but it goes to a separate location..

* Some real-world examples
** The simple "library loader" panel we're using in Tube
** Making tools for the wargames-esque animation from Patent Absurdity
** The Gilga rig panels from Tube

http://tube.freefac.org/post/gilgamesh-rig-preview-video