Blender.org Gallery Updated: February 2006

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gallery.jpgI’ve just finished updating the February gallery on blender.org. It’s quite overdue and I’ll be doing the March gallery as well soon. Again, congratulations to everyone who made it in!

I thought that this time I would talk a bit about my work behind the scenes on the gallery.

My workflow looks like this:

I receive every gallery submission by email, around 20-30 a day. Most of them are ok but not top-notch and some of them really bad. As a hint: if you’ve just started to use Blender, I’m not interested in your first rendered cube :) We’ll only take the best of the best.

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I keep the selected images in a folder in my mailbox, waiting to be processed. Once I find the time, I go through these images once again and compare them to each other. I then make a second selection.

Then it’s time to fire up Typo3, blender.org’s content management system. Entering the images is a bit of a pain since we never took the time to add a ‘real’ gallery module but hey, we only have to do it 12 times a year anyway ;-)

Afbeelding 1.png

Finally, I send everyone who made it in a message to confirm that their work has been published in the gallery.

Oh, and these days, I post on BlenderNation to make sure that everyone notices the gallery update ;-)

Enjoy!

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    • edna

      Fantastic. I often don’t pick up the nice images floating through Elysiun and the like, so it’s great to see them in the Blender.org gallery. Couldn’t you stick a note on the front page, or change the art gallery image to alert people to the update?

    • UglyMike

      No rendered cubes, he? Well, there goes my chance for fame and fortune…

    • http://www.revoltic.de Simon

      So cool to see all the top blender pictures on one site…
      The march Update is in progress? great ;)

    • alabandit

      what about a really cool grey cube ;p thank 4 all your hard work

    • http://www.renderreality.com reaper

      I was disappointed to see my images did not make the gallery. However, I do see some excellent talent in the artwork that did make the gallery. So, in general, I am not surprised or put off in any way that I am not in there. However, I was disappointed to see almost the exact same image make the gallery for a second time. The kitchen image was shown in the gallery in the month previous to this. In my opinion, the older kitchen image was the superior rendering with better texturing. So, I am not sure why it was worthy to achieve a second gallery showing with a lesser quality image. That seemed odd. Any explanation for that?

    • bart

      @reaper: it just escaped my attention. It’s hard to keep all the images in my head :)

    • http://gmailskins.mozdev.org Matthew Parker

      Whenever I browse the gallary I always open up 10 new window with middle click, then I remember that they are evil javascript links!

      Please consider changing the links from this:

      to this:

      This means left click will open the images as normal, but middle click (or shift click) will open the image in a new window correctly.

      Thanks