You probably know that Sintel will appear on 3D World's October issue. James Finnerty sends us the photo of the actual copy! (Or who knows if he rendered that himself ?)
Update: Partly quote Ton's recent post on Durian website on this.
The “Return of Blender” has been choosen by 3D World as a good cover slogan I guess. We all know we were never gone, but we we’ve been very busy indeed!
And in some other medias, some readers having been sighting bunnies.
- Peach project sighting on BBC News site where tablet and clamshell PCs join crowded market.
- Miro Video Converter. A super simple way to convert Big Buck Bunny to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and more.
- YuiXX media player, your Unique Big Buck Bunny XXperience
Links:
- 3D World Magazine
- 3D world magazine cover (from Durian website)
37 Comments
"The return of Blender"
Was Blender ever away!?
@tin2tin: Something of a sad statement on our position in the world eh?
don't read too much into it, its a headline that is supposed to grab your attention.
It must be something like The Return of the King (LotR) about Sintel being an epic-fantasy film.
@ Blendernation: I'd love an article about the Sintel DVD contents.
Woo yeah, you got my message :D
They've got like a 6 page article in here where an editor went behind the scenes at the blender institute. It looks awesome, haven't read it yet myself
Cool!
Really hope I can find this here in Germany somewhere.
MD
@tin2tin: "The Return of Blender" is the sequel of "Maya Strikes Back". In the end Blender saves us all from the evil of the commercial 3D empire.
"Showing what blender 2.5 really can do"
O Rly? :/
An official blender release will never be able to do it.
well that's why we need to suport Blender
We need to improve Blender now more then ever :)
I hope 2 see Sintel 2 >:)
FreeMind: with the dvds we will release a semi-official version that will "do" it all fine. That's including the render branch, which is being postponed to include until 2.5x is out of beta.
Even 3D World thinks 'Sintel' is a bad name for a movie. They've replaced it with 'The Return of Blender'. It has a better ring to it.
Great news and great publicity for Blender and BF!
Also very happy to hear that render branch will be integrated.
Cheers!
"Even 3D World thinks ‘Sintel’ is a bad name for a movie. They’ve replaced it with ‘The Return of Blender’. It has a better ring to it."
for my own, I have always thought that Sintel name sounded like the name of a super processor from Intel !o). It sounds like an "Intel inside" movie !
This said, good news. I'll try to find this magasine, but I have never found it around here.
Looking at the cover, I just realized, Sintel has huge hands! They're almost man-like.
Can somebody make scans of the relevant articles? Please?
Not Return of Blender, but Enter the Dragon
from twitter http://durian.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3dworldcover.png
@J. that would be illegal as the article is copyright of 3d World Magazine. You can order issues online, I have to wait until November before I get my copy at the store :-(
That would take me 12 pounds for only 6 pages I'm interested in... :o
Woohoo! Yet another front page page appearance from the Blender foundation.
Way to go guys! :D
Oooh, 7 pounds, mmmm...
When the this issue is in the webstore, I'll ''borrow'' my dad's credit card! :P
@MD You can order it via http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/ (Credit Card needed IIRC)
Wondering when the latest number will be available on that site...
That is truly Magestic.
The return of Blender, I really like that one.
We've come a long way, baby! Congrats, Blender (and those awesome bunch of people who all made it possible). Maybe now people will stop considering Blender as that "okay" 3D modeling package. This isn't the first time Blender has gotten their attention, but this sure is a major milestone! (And whaddah ya' mean "The Return of Blender," 3D World? We never left! LOL)
I agree with the comment that her hands are a little too big for a female.
I hope to see a sintel movie coming out... A FULL LENGTH movie would really send blender rocketing into the heavens by number of users.
Anyways, Sintel looks awesome, I can't wait for it to come out. Love the publicity blenders been getting lately, and need the compositor back in 2.54.
fictional out
hahahaha good one WimdB!! :D
A+ for Blender!
Great to see Blender on the front page of a 3D animation journal! They could even write "Is Blendeer worth the money" or "Blender or shake" or "Bla bli Blend". But the title "The Return of Blender" even gives the impression that the product is back on equal quality to other 3d packages. And that's great news!
3D max, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, zBrush and all you brothers, be aware your brother was in the weighing room ad he is back. Strong and in great shape :o)
ECK-Cell-Ent
I Love it, with out question - I "got" the title... Top Job.
It was some of the rumors about blender 2.5 which have brought me back to blender to give it a try again (i guess it was about 1.5 years ago).. so in some sense it is a "return of blender" for some of us ;)
(plz note, it was also the moment i have thrown my commercial and imho overpriced product away and decided to stay with blender :) )
It's a great image, but one thing really bothers me about it.
If you know that your image is going to be on the front cover of 3d world, take the time to post process the image! I can see render artefacts all over her face, arms and upper torso.
Seriously, five minutes with photoshop is all it would have taken.
Nice. I'll have to pick up that issue.
And speaking of bunny sightings.. noticed this on MacRumors
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1017815
Someone in the comments asks what movie the squirrel is from and someone replies Ice Age. :)
Of course they were set straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSL4cmFW_GU
Hmmm. Ya that headline irks me as well. However ... it's on the cover of 3D WORLD?!!! AWESOME!!!!
Sintel on the cover is awesome, The headline could have been better. "Blender is back and rocking!" would have been more appropriate. Instead of it insinuating that it has been gone for ages.