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Blender on the BBC

  Published by Bart on September 9th, 2008 in Press

Blender was featured in last week's episode of Click - 'the BBC's flagship technology programme'. Kate Russel talks about Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream and how to get started with Blender.

Kate writes:

While big budget animated films are all the rage for the likes of Disney and Pixar, you can actually create your own low budget production using open source software that you can download for free if you visit blender.org.

[...]

Persevere and you will be amazed by what you can create.

Right on, Kate!

It's a fun item to watch, and Super3boy must be thrilled to bits to make his appearance on the British National Television! The amount of high-profile coverage that Blender is receiving these days is amazing..

See the video here.



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  1. 1 Madpsychot Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:07 am

    Blender on the BBC? Fantastic news….. with a couple of million viewers this should bring the name of Blender to a great many people who may not have heard of it before! Great to see Super3boy mentioned, his tutorials rock!

  2. 2 banor Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:16 am

    Wow, pretty cool, sweet!

    Praise God. I love using Blender… it's a great program. Check out the new header for Minosa Films for proof:

    http://minosafilms.wordpress.com/

  3. 3 AniCator Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:34 am

    This is some good news. I do wonder if she actually tried to use Blender or if she was simply reading the auto-cue that was about someone else's experiences.

  4. 4 Ali Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:43 am

    @Bart: How did you get to know all of this single-handedly? are you a web-spider? :)

    Thanks for the great news and keep up crawling the international network in search of Blender news.

  5. 5 Bart Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:45 am

    @Ali: people mail us the news ;-) If you ever spot something, leave us a message!

  6. 6 J Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    More intuitive! BBC is a troll.
    she said superboy3, instead of super3boy.

    Now BBC should show the full shorts.

  7. 7 Oscar R. Paz Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 7:49 am

    blender will be the nest greate tool for VFX in Movies… Just a few years more.

  8. 8 Cyrr Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 8:12 am

    Bart, we should be bold and ask BBC, if we can place for the next few days a link to Blender on there webpage, with a little paragraph. At least they talked about us, so they can round it up with a little article on their webpage.

  9. 9 Bart Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    @Cyrr: there already is a link on the mentioned page. They played nice :)

  10. 10 Burns Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    I think the Click programme is also aired on BBC World, which is broadcast all over the world. Even Better!

  11. 11 terrywallwork Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    Excellent, exposure on the BBC, now that's global reach!

    I guess the woman that introduces that programs is not just a pretty face if she was happily making stuff with Blender in 6 hours.

  12. 12 Christian Lehmann Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Thanks for the link. I just watch, and liked it.

  13. 13 Francisco Ortiz Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    YAEH!

  14. 14 meltingman Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    yes ! super :-)

    realy good pub for blender .

  15. 15 NathanKP Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Wow! That is really cool. Blender is taking off really fast. This will bring yet more users to use this great piece of software.

    NathanKP - Inkweaver Review

  16. 16 blenderman345 Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Whoo-hoo! Personally, I don't watch BBC, but if Blender's on TV that's good. Also somewhere other than the Netherlands! :p

  17. 17 flo Edit Link Sep 9th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    "LE monde" an important french newspaper, if not the most famous, ha sp ublished an online article abour BBB:
    http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2008/07/23/big-buck-bunny-marque-l-entree-du-dessin-anime-dans-l-ere-libre_1076385_3476.html#ens_id=977604

  18. 18 ysvry Edit Link Sep 10th, 2008 at 12:18 am

    blender on bbc thats nice, praize goes to kate.
    Infact I wish the dutch tv was as good as the bbc. ;)

  19. 19 super3boy Edit Link Sep 10th, 2008 at 12:53 am

    I was really excited when I saw it on there. I also sent an email to the BBC to see if we could possibly get a follow-up episode.

    Thanks for the kind comments above.

  20. 20 Paroxysmal Edit Link Sep 10th, 2008 at 2:55 am

    Thats awesome that Blender was featured…but I have to disagree with her that super3boys tutorials are helpful. I've learned absolutely nothing from them…and the first to minutes are an infomercial. Sure its exposure for Blender on all fronts…but throwing more crap out there doesn't help it. Thank goodness for Elephants Dream, BBB, and Yo Frankie for showing the true guts behind it.

  21. 21 super3boy Edit Link Sep 10th, 2008 at 6:52 am

    To the comment by Paroxysmal above, I believe your argument may be skewed. My tutorials are aimed the beginning users with little to no experience with the program or 3D modeling software in general. The presentation of my tutorials was perfect because I am pretty sure that would be the audience viewing the show. If you have had a good deal of experience in the program of course my tutorials will not help you. In response to 'infomercial' statement I only 'advertise' my forum in order to off-load some of the questions that people have about blender. Due to time constraints it is impossible for me to reply to the massive amount of email I get related to my tutorials. It also has spawned collaboration projects, peer work critique, and many user tutorials.

    I hope I cleared things up.

  22. 22 Witchfinder General Edit Link Sep 10th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    You can also watch the programme in better quality on the BBC iPlayer website…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dhy9l/

    It's available until 12:59am Monday 15th September. Fast forward to 19.30 for the Blender bit.

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