Quicklinks - Blender in the Media

Here's another handful of items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a new Blender tutorial in 3D World magazine, an interview with Enrico Valenza in the Italy, mentions in two German magazines and finally the appearance of Elephants Dream on DivX.com

Jim Thacker, editor of 3D World magazine, wrote to us about their latest issue which features a new tutorial by Bassam. You can download the first page of the article (which features an enigmatic box labeled 'Question of the Month, submitted by blenderartists.org forums'). If you can't find the magazine in the newsstand, you can also order it online.

Enrico Valenza (EnV) wrote:

Hi Bart, the October issue of the Italian version of Computer Arts magazine includes a four-page interview full of images about me, Blender and the Opensource.

Regards,

EnV

Andreas Fischer wrote:

Blender appears in a big 3D-Animation roundup featured by the german magazine iX in its most recent issue. The article compares 3DSMax 9, Maya 8, Cinema 4D 9.6, Softimage XSI 5.1 Electric Image Animation System 6.5, messiah:studio 2.4, Houdini 8.1, Lightwave 9, Carrara 5, Truespace 7, Blender 2.42, Realsoft 3D 5.1, Strata 3D CX 5 and Shade 8.5 (also taking different ”Light”/”Pro” versions of each program into account). Each program is tested on its capabilities in modeling, animation, simulation/dynamics, particle system, texturing/material system and rendering.

Their view on Blender is, that it is on a par with commercial packages, as demonstrated by Elephants Dream, and that, due to it being free of charge, it is a great opportunity for beginners to have a look at animation and rendering.

They also praise the Import/Export facilities and the flexible interface, stating that several of the contenders might want to take a look at the latter.

Florian Findeiß wrote:

The German Magazine for adventure Media "Abenteuer und Phantastik" has an article about Elephants dream and an interview with @ndy in its latest issue. It's not available online, but worth a buy.

They write: "Elephants Dream - The adventures of Proog and Emo is the world of the machine: a making of the world's first Open Source animation movie and an interview with its art director Andreas Goralczyk"

To round things up, it would seem that the DivX people really like Elephants Dream. It not only appeared in their newsletter, but they also host the movie:

Bmud wrote:

DivX Stage 6 hosts 1280 elephants dream embedded in the browser! This just freaks me out! I think Google video is in trouble…