Blender 2.44 Splash Screen Revealed

Published by Bart on May 13th, 2007 in Development

Although you never know with Open Source software ("it'll be ready when it's ready"), it looks like the release of 2.44 is near. For now, all we can report on is that the new 2.44 splash screen has been committed to CVS (or rather to SVN, as the developers are in the middle of a switch to the new version management system). The new splash is designed by @ndy, who seems to have a thing for gecko's ;-)

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1 Studio Stockwell May 13th, 2007 at 10:01 am

Thanks Andy!!! Excellent job. :)
2 Cuby May 13th, 2007 at 10:02 am

I absolutely love this image! As I was glancing through the list of Entries, I was hoping this one would win!

I can't wait to seeing this gecko every time I open Blender!

Congratulations @ndy!
Cuby
3 Felix_Kütt May 13th, 2007 at 10:05 am

yaaay gecko! hmm.. what was that game on the PS called again.. ah yes Gex.. :3
4 Micool May 13th, 2007 at 10:25 am

very very nice ;) !
5 Cubedude04 May 13th, 2007 at 10:35 am

Looks good. Thats the good thing about new releases. Always get to see a different start up ;D
6 Giovanni Gallo May 13th, 2007 at 10:41 am

lovable little reptile!
7 AniCator May 13th, 2007 at 11:41 am

It seems like the development of Blender keeps going faster and faster.
8 Kram1032 May 13th, 2007 at 11:59 am

great news and great pics (both the spash screen and the guy)
9 TXRXFX May 13th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

Nice entry and looks great. not my personal 1st choice but well worthy nonetheless.
10 rednelb May 13th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

most excelent!
11 Sanne May 13th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

Congrats, @ndy, that's a cute little fellow. :)
12 Rui Paulo Sanguinheira Diogo May 13th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

Pretty cool! B)
13 noidtluom May 13th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

can't wait for it's release. i love the simplicity. just out of curiosity (i probably won't get an answer) was the background (blurred) an image or modeled?
14 Gat May 13th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

I herd that release be right after the switch.
15 Alden May 13th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

Beautiful job, @ndy! Congrats!
16 KevinW May 13th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

@ndy does seem to have a thing for gecko's :) Before you know it, he will be doing the Geico gecko animations (and in Blender too).

Great job!
17 Francis Douse May 13th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

@ndy, I love the splash screen, I'm quite new to Blender (having SWITCHED FROM Lightwave!) and I'm loving it, I too am looking forward to seeing that cute Gecko every day ;-) Well done mate.
18 Psion May 13th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

Great splash screen, @ndy!
19 Jon May 13th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

Great work Andy. I think it was the best choice.

It's truly an iconic image and character. So much so that maybe it's time to replace Suzanne the Monkey with Andy the Gecko.

I think the Blender Organisation should seriously consider adopting this gecko as an ambassador for Blender if Andy Goralczyk would agree to it. The character would be a great asset to help promote Blender.

Possibly go so far as replacing Blender's default monkey head mesh with a gecko head mesh if Andy Goralczyk would donate it.

Apparently gecko's come in a wide variety of colours. Some can be very bright colours so it would be OK if Blender's gecko was orange to match the Blender logo.

Some geckos can even change their colour to BLEND in with their surroundings! That would be cool for the first ever animated splash screen to have a color changing gecko.

The gecko wouldn't have to be called Andy. Maybe have a competition or vote to decide his name. Or maybe Ton should choose the gecko's name.

Does anyone else think it's a good idea?

Afterall, monkeys are soooo 2006.
20 madman May 13th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

The Gecko Guy look's better for the splash screen of blender 2.44 ^_^
21 Bmud May 13th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

This is really beautiful. I am glad it won. I don't think any version of Blender previously had a splash screen that looked so nice that I would be more compelled to run it. Congratulations, Andy
22 ysvry May 13th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

congrats andy, quite a bendy little fellow.
23 bludragon May 14th, 2007 at 12:16 am

Yes, the new splash screen looks good. So does Blender 2.44! Yes, I haven't seen it anywhere else, but Blender2.44 is out in the wild now! I did get mine before posting this, so that the server wouldn't be jammed. Now that you know, go and get it!
-bd
24 ZanQdo May 14th, 2007 at 12:22 am

2.44 Released :D

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-244/
25 FruitBatInShades May 14th, 2007 at 11:24 am

Has anyone got that gecko as a desktop? I went to andy's site but can't find it there!
26 mike pan May 15th, 2007 at 3:22 am

Awesome work, @ndy! Wonder who has the honor to be on the splash of 2.50
27 epat May 15th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

Just out of curiosity - does that gecko have the new SSS applied to help it look smaller?
-epat. :)