You might know Mathias Pedersen from his "Starry Night" image that was used as the Blender 2.43 splash screen. He also is one of the authors of the "the Essential Blender" book recently out. It is quite an accomplishment for someone that is 16 years old. I see great promise in Mathias, as he comes off as being a very focused and determined person, who would be an asset on any creative team.

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My name is Bassam Kurdali. You may know me as the director of "Elephants Dream". I am a blender user for many years- since the 2.2x versions of the software, a bit before the Open Source Era.

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During Siggraph 2006 I met Jason van Gumster; many people know him as Groo or Fweeb (on forums ), who demostrated the fluid simulation capabilities of Blender. He runs a small animation and print design company (Hand Turkey Studios) in Richmond, Virginia and they use Blender for nearly all of their animation needs.

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*After the great interview of @ndy, Mark continues on through his list of interviewees at Siggraph 2006.

During Siggraph 2006, I had the opportunity meet and interview Colin Levy (effstops) who was there to not only support Blender but do a presentation on the techniques he used to make "Suburban Plight" with Blender, which we posted about a while back. Colin has been a part of the Blender community for a long time (and being no stranger to BlenderNation headlines) contributing some good tutorials and great art work.

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During Siggraph 2006, Mark Puttnam (who along with Bob Holcomb, Martin and Dave was keeping an eye on all the Linux machines) conducted the following interview with several Blender notables. The first was Andy Goralczyk aka @ndy.

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