Blender in French Randstad Commercial

randstadBlender makes its appearance in a commercial for Randstad, a huge international employment services company.

rickpier wrote:

In a french TV commercial for Randstad we see about 3s of blender…

… and what do you know! There’s more – Ton just pointed me to this one:

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  • http://digitaldraw.wordpress.com/ aws357

    Wow. Congratulation for people who noticed that o.O

    I never pay attention to commercial, let alone look at their details, so…

  • http://sites.google.com/site/bartiuscrouch/ Crouch

    A similar commercial (also by Randstad) was broadcasted in the Netherlands as well (already a few months ago). I’ve never been certain if Blender was shown in it, as the clip went too fast on tv to be certain and I can’t find it online.

  • a user

    He should use subsurf modifier.

  • Vince

    I don`t want to start a political discussion, but I don`t like companies who exploit people…

  • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

    @Vince: if you don’t want to start a discussion, then don’t. Consider it off-topic, anyway.

  • http://www.thomasbaron.net Thomas Baron

    I’m French, I’m really bored with commercials and especially this one (really annoying sound) but I should take a look at it once :)

  • Pino

    The commercial with that dude was aired recently in The Netherlands actually, I remember seeing it. It might be slightly different, because I don’t think Blender was so clearly visible, but I might not have seen it fully (commercials aren’t exactly the thing I focus on, but it is cool Blender is shown).

  • Dykam

    Saw this on Dutch television too, in Dutch of course. Couldn’t find the corresponding youtube video.

  • Kemeros

    Nice for blender in a commercial but STAY AWAY from randstad. Worked for them.

    Never again.

  • blendNmix

    every bits of image of Blender will be related here… there is a quota or what?

  • http://hamsterking.com JoOngle

    Blender is taken seriously now by thousands of companies worldwide, blender is no longer the “little kid”.

    We got to learn to accept that :o)

  • zaniocz

    Yes, i agree with you joOngle, the moment for blender is coming

  • http://www.mookie3d.weebly.com mookie

    Blender will not become a real choice for companies until it won’t be treated seriously by the biggest render engines developers (such as V-Ray, Maxwell and Mental Ray). OK, there is as far as I’m concerned one script for V-Ray exporting the whole Blender scene (which is really great), BUT it needs Maya and is supported by bdancer, a Blender fan. It’s still not enough.

  • me

    The lady in the second clip appears to be using the special ‘no hands required’ version of Blender.

  • ovidiu

    I’ve just found today another Blender spotting here – not commercial tough. If someone still remembers Transport Tycoon game series, here’s the Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD) – they are also planning to redo all the original graphics in 32bit involving also the community, and guess what program they are using :D

    “OpenTTD has two major graphics sections, the 32bpp graphics development section for the future 32bpp OpenTTD release and the 8bpp graphics development section for the current OpenTTD graphics.”

    Standards:
    http://wiki.openttd.org/32bit_Graphics_Development

    What was already done (contributed) so far:
    http://wiki.openttd.org/32bpp_graphics_development_tracker

  • http://www.pointhappy.com/ Artkansas

    I liked that when they were showing the Blender screens in the second one that the words Software Value and True Value came up.

  • http://hamsterking.com JoOngle

    @Mookie, wrong. But you are free to “believe” in anything you wish, ;)

    Wrong – because I have worked with Carlsberg, Tuborg, Hugo Boss and many other well known world-wide brands with Blender in Full commercial production, completely without Maya or Max, from idea to actual finish production, but hey – you don’t need me to convince you :o)

  • http://www.mookie3d.weebly.com mookie

    JoOngle – you won’t convince me this way; I work in one of the biggest 3d graphics company and I’m the only one there who uses Blender; our clients needs models with shaders for V-Ray and Mental Ray (in most cases), the need scenes for Cinema, Max or Lightwave; Blender works great mostly with non-commercial application that at least 90% of the companies don’t use (and it won’t change in the nearest future). Blender is great as a modelling tool that can be used at some stage of professional work. OK, I guess you say truth about all the “Full commercial production” you’ve made (although I cannot find any of them at your site), but I think it’s more like an exception than a common fact.

  • http://hamsterking.com JoOngle

    mookie, we’ve have to agree to disagree, I won’t argue with you forever, I really don’t care.
    About the works on my site, it’s 3-4 years since any images in there has been updated, as for the known brands, I was under an NDA, can’t disclose them on that page, but if you’re in Denmark, you shall be welcome for a beer or two, and we’ll look at nice portfolios ;)

    Cheers.

  • Pascal

    http://www.digitalgraphics.be/

    A belgian society which use Blender since a long time aga when 3d is needed.

    http://www.blendernation.com/the-secret-of-kells-wins-audience-award-at-annecy-09/

  • Nixon

    i like the blender sighting….
    i don’t like how a to me rather suspicious company is trying to bum of blenders sort of good- guy image for their purpose :(…
    I wonder if they were giving a compensation for it’s appearance…i understand that they wouldn’t have to…
    but it would be nice if they did.