Comments on: Maya, Max and Blender writers luau at SIGGRAPH

By: johnj

johnj — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:52:31 +0000

bad idea: never speak with other people and make a house for only blender users, speaking only about blender, or saying bad things about all the other tools

good idea: to become friends of everibody, learning and treaching each other, making everibody understand the possibilities of blender, and understanding what the other tools do and why so much people use them

for me is a very good meeting; i don't think that blender must kill maya or 3ds; i think that blender is another way of thinking and that to sit at the same table with those people is a part of that way of thinking; and if a good programmer got money for his work is good; to put together an open source project is better; but people need money to live; may be in the future we all have "open source" money and food… but so far blender is a little help to change our minds;

sorry for my english; all imho, of course! :-)

By: ShaneNewville

ShaneNewville — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:47:10 +0000

Yay for Blender Nation! I wish I could've made it to SIGGRAPH 2007.
I live in San Diego. I had to leave town for 2 weeks for my sister's
wedding. I hope to see you guys there next year.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:39:40 +0000

harkyman, doh! Yes, of course Roland Hess, second from right, is best known as the main author and editor of "Essential Blender", which is now also available on Amazon for pre-order and set to become another Blender bestseller. Apologies for leaving that out.

And yeah, I have heard Woody Harrelson more times than once…

By: JoOngle

JoOngle — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:16:49 +0000

I hear ya Harky! ;)

By: TXRXFX

TXRXFX — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:17:36 +0000

Where were the houdini dudes? Maybe too busy with H9. Good to see the evening was fun. Everyone has something to learn from each other. nice to hear that they're able to confab about various things the rest of us are interested in. AKA glad they didn't heavily debate the pros and cons of each others business models, tho Max and Maya are now Autodesk property…

By: kram1032

kram1032 — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:21:27 +0000

Ah, nice :D

@ Black Boe:
Not every Blender User looses his peace, when talking to (or about) Users of any other 3D app…

And most times, users explode, when Blender doesn't get respected, as it should…

Very often, it gets respected, but not as one User wishes, though… That's not a good point to explode, then.

Sometimes, it's the other way round, too, btw. (No idea, how often, though)

By: Black Boe

Black Boe — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:46:32 +0000

Hey hey hey. Maya, Max and Blender developers can sit peacefully at the same table. Why do the Blender USERS get so bristley, then?

By: harkyman

harkyman — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:43:00 +0000

In addition to tech editing that Wiley book, I think the Hess dude had something to do with that "Blending Your Essenses" book.

That was a fun night. Lots of good shoptalk and some fun industry rumors. And us Blender guys either got respect, or the other people there were good at hiding their mockery.

By: JoOngle

JoOngle — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:18:52 +0000

Yeah - cool stuff! Congrats.

That said though…. I *REALLY* hope we'd
hear "Wow - Blender has THAT tool? We ain't got that"
rather than "Blender has got that too now?"

By: Julius_Sneezer

Julius_Sneezer — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:00:02 +0000

Way to go Ton and Blender! More and more are forced, yes forced to acknowledge Blender. Corporations are forced to acknowledge Open Source and they are losing billions of dollars, so don't trust them.

I think it was Julius Caesar who said…
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"