Comments on: I'm Taking a Sabbatical

By: Ataru

Ataru — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:49:23 +0000

Congrats on your baby! :-) Have fun with him/her, they grow up fast. And I hope your new company does well.
THANK YOU for your contributions to the community. You've got to be the most amazing guy we've got, right up there with the developers. I'll miss your stuff on here, I'm kind of disappointed to hear this. But thanks for Blendernation. I love it.

By: dave62

dave62 — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:47:40 +0000

i THANG YOU for all you did for the community and wish you GOOD LUCK:)

By: GewoonM

GewoonM — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:54:20 +0000

In fear of repeating just about everyone:

Thank you Bart, for everything!

I too have had my first Blender experiences because of your tutorials.
I'm still awful at it, compared to the beauty of other peoples creations, but the enthousiasm of this community (for which you have been responsible for a very significant part!) always drives me and probably a lot of the other silent Blender fans back to try!
Thank you for that!

It's amazing to see how long you have been around, perhaps we should hook you up for a lintje ;)

But, it's also good to hear that you're making some time for your family! I completely agree with your priorities.
Keep in touch with us Blenderheads, now and then and the best of luck!

By: Gaute

Gaute — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:57:21 +0000

Thanks for all you have done to the Blender community! take your time, and i hope you come back!
Take care :)

By: sen

sen — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:00:22 +0000

Thank you for all the work!

By: jacques

jacques — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:33:53 +0000

to show how special you've made blendernation (to me): it's the only website for which I've permanently disabled adblock :-)

By: jacques

jacques — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:24:56 +0000

Thanks so much for all your work Bart, Blendernation has been a refreshing and inspiring read. Good luck with your company!

By: pictorali

pictorali — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:55:37 +0000

Bart,

I'd like to thank you for all you've done for this community. You were in large part responsible for building and maintaining the blender community back in the .7x days, and you continued that tradition of excellence with Blendernation. Best of luck with your new baby and your company.

By: blendenzo

blendenzo — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:38:26 +0000

Hey Bart,

I know I'm a little late to reply on this one, but while I'm sad to see you go, I understand what you're feeling after the last few days. I've been mistreated by the community a few times myself, and I know that at least once I couldn't find the ambition to visit a single Blender-related site for around three weeks. It's very hard to spend so much of your life trying to help people and then to have them turn on you by making accusations and saying scathing things.

I'm happy for the changes in your life as a new father and business owner, and I wish you the best. Hopefully we'll see you back in the future. I appreciate everything you've done in creating this excellent community resource.

Tony "blendenzo" DiRienzo

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:42:49 +0000

Just want to add my thanks as well (and thanks to your family for letting us have you for so long already),
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