Final Five Durian Members Announced!

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dw4_revoy_visu-prefinal02The last five team members have just been announced by the Blender Foundation! All team members and their portfolios are presented on the ‘About Durian’ page now as well.

The new members are:

  • Angela Guenette (modeling, rigging, animation)
  • Ben Dansie (3D generalist)
  • Nathan Vegdahl (rigging, animation)
  • Lee Salvemini (animation)
  • Soenke Maeter (shading, light, compositing)

This in addition to:

  • Colin Levy (director, 3D generalist)
  • David Revoy (concept art)

Technical support:

  • Brecht van Lommel
  • Campbell Barton

Producer:

  • Ton Roosendaal

Congratulations to all involved!

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    • http://www.dustyghost.com dusty

      Wow!!! Some familiar names there and some I don’t know!!! Cool Mix!!!!

      Well done guys!!! this is going to be one hell of a film!!!!!! YAY!!

    • Limvot

      Nice! BTW, can’t wait for the new features! Not to mention learning from the superb rigs of Nathan.

      Although, I had expected to find that Andy would have been a part of this movie. I look forward to learning about all these great new 3D artists!

    • http://www.aayaam.com sugarman

      will miss Bassam ! did an amazing job in the two films

    • Benjy

      Congratulations to all! Can’t wait to see what you produce.

    • http://ciquestudios.com ian

      Congratulations everyone! I agree with dusty, this is going to be one hell of a film.

    • n00bhaxor

      Ooo Veghdahl+Dansie+Maeter??? This is craZY! Congrats to the ones I don’t know, I know they picked you for a reason.

      Great expectations for this one.

    • Ryan Anderson

      Yay! Soenke and Ben are both on the team. However, I’ve been most excited about Colin, I remember watching all the clips on his site like 2 years ago, it was some great inspriation.

    • wasa

      Nice looking team, I did notice however that there seems to be a missing modeler.
      I see Ms Angela Guenette for character models but i don’t see anyone for environments.
      Just curious I guess lol, or maybe you bunch already have plans to have the story take place along the country side. ^^

    • MrNoodle

      Wonderful team!

    • http://www.watchmike.ca Mike

      Wicked team – I guess they’ll try and use all that software on the new Animux distro too?

    • http://salvador.mata.com.mx/blog Mataii

      Congrats to the new Durian Members! ;)

    • http://rexprime.com rexprime

      congrats to all that made the team…

    • Blendroid

      Woohoo, Nathan again! He’s my hero.

      Hopefully he’ll make another hilarious documentary of some kind. :P

    • gustav göransson

      Congrats

      Nice to see Angela Guenette in team, she has amazing portfolio. Had hope for one or two more fulltime developers, but guess Ton and Brecht will deliver as usual =)

    • Kunisch

      @Gustav
      Well one way to secure one dev. and more artists would be to make sure that the presales campaign hits the roof. The pricing should secure that most people will be able to help funding the project.

    • Alex Blank

      Great additions to the team…looking forward to getting the DVD…

    • Icono

      Yeah, let’s hear that again Kunisch. Throw money at blender. Get those pre-sale DVD’s and goodies and training materials. Maybe even just throw money to those developers themselves.

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      Awesome team, I wonder if their going to need external animators…

    • banor

      Well, it was great to shoot for it! Thanks, Ton, Colin, and David for considering me among the large pool of applicants! Cheers and blessings upon the Durian Project team!!!!!!! You rock!

    • http://www.macouno.com macouno

      Excellent team guys!

      More hugs from Nathan & beer with Lee!

    • http://www.tonymullen.com/Books.html Tony

      Congratulations everybody! All these people are top notch Blender artists, and it’s going to be incredibly exciting to see what they come up with!

    • Olaf

      Nathan’s back? Cool.

    • Olaf

      Wow, that Angela Guenette really knows her stuff! I just saw her demoreel. Very impressive. It’s going to be interesting to see what this collaboration produces.

    • http://www.lenwest.org Len

      Brilliant! Awesome team! All the best everyone of ya you will kick butt I know u will :)

    • http://www.lenwest.org Len

      PS: I’m EXTRA proud of course because Angela (who won the Blending Life contest), made them team :) And everyone should check her showreel it rocks.

    • http://justinnichol.wordpress.com Justin Nichol

      Holy wow! Every single member of the team is amazing! Angelas stuff blew me away. And Martin Lodewijk!!

      Bring on the pre-orders! I’ll find the money somehow, I want my name in the credits of this sucker.

    • http://www.theboomshelter.com blengine

      Yeah Lee! Congrats all, and it’s great to see Nathan and Lee returning.. but no co-producer to buy bread? What a gyp. Good luck guys and gal.

    • mercury

      felicidades a todos los seleccionados…
      espero que pronto inicie la realización del corto…
      saludos… :)

    • MaximB

      Congratulations to the new team !
      Happy to see that we got a female member – and most qualified one I must add.

      Way to go !

    • oin – Ef

      Indeed , I am not very informed about great Blender artist names, but I was amazed to find this from her some time ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmHIUFIKw-E It’s done fully with blender (some of her works are with other tools she handles outstandingly as well, by all means) , and the demo reel… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dU2YSKGKpU you probably all knew about her, I just didn’t till some weeks ago… I was *amazed* . I don’t really know several of the other names, but everything makes me think this is a such a group of aces…

    • Jonathan Merritt

      Well done Ben! Great to see that your excellent work is going to be part of Durian. :-)

    • terence

      Looks like a great team. I didn’t realize Angela worked on Everyone’s Hero. My boys love that movie, although I don’t think they’ll be able to watch Durian till their a bit older

    • http://http//blog.sina.com.cn/congcong009 congcong009

      wow congratulation this great team!!!
      Looking forward this great big movie!!!!!!!
      Hope I could do any contribute for this movie～～～～～ ：）

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry

      congrats, finaly some girls in the team ;P
      goodluck to all participants.

    • http://www.montagestudio.org Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

      WOA congrats guys! Especially Ben Dansie! :D amazing news!