Blender on the BBC

Bart · September 9, 2008

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.

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

24 responses

Madpsychot

9 September 2008 at 06:07

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!

banor

9 September 2008 at 06:16

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/

AniCator

9 September 2008 at 06:34

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.

Ali

9 September 2008 at 06:43

@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.

Bart

9 September 2008 at 06:45

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

9 September 2008 at 06:54

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

Now BBC should show the full shorts.

Oscar R. Paz

9 September 2008 at 07:49

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

Cyrr

9 September 2008 at 08:12

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.

Bart

9 September 2008 at 08:19

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

Burns

9 September 2008 at 09:25

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

terrywallwork

9 September 2008 at 09:45

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.

Christian Lehmann

9 September 2008 at 13:09

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

Francisco Ortiz

9 September 2008 at 15:13

YAEH!

meltingman

9 September 2008 at 16:27

yes ! super :-)

realy good pub for blender .

NathanKP

9 September 2008 at 18:30

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

blenderman345

9 September 2008 at 20:02

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

flo

9 September 2008 at 21:01

“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

ysvry

10 September 2008 at 00:18

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

super3boy

10 September 2008 at 00:53

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.

Paroxysmal

10 September 2008 at 02:55

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.

super3boy

10 September 2008 at 06:52

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.