Comments on: Made in Blender, Animation Makes Top 5 In Autodesk Competition

By: playbass06

playbass06 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:56:14 +0000

Thank goodnes you can use Blender!
I'm part of the saftey animation this year for FRC 1986, and was struggling to go from Blender to 3ds Max. It's just a completely different setup. I gotta say, the automatic motion creation tools for the biped is nice, though, but it doesn't help you beyond basics…

That animation was in Blender? That was my favorite one, and I had no clue it was. Nice!

By: Th3w-san

Th3w-san — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:59:03 +0000

Man FIRST is so awesome. I remember a couple years ago one of the guys on our team did a model of our robot in Inventor. Took the two of us four or five hours to get Inventor's vector format converted into a file that Blender could import so I could render it :D

By: Ballz

Ballz — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:12:16 +0000

I and jayjay are beginners but am a year old with blender today and happy to hear that blender is better than 3dmax and other and it's hard to understand them but wit b3d (Blender 3d) I got to create and compose my first 3 mins of cg animation as close to transformers. Blender keep it up and when is the new version coming out and please what u do please don't let it software exceed 15mb

By: JayJay

JayJay — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:38:18 +0000

I'm a beginner who just started out with blender and I'm really impressed to know dat blender is capable of teaching this expensive mayans a lesson

By: amoose136

amoose136 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:03:34 +0000

I had no idea FIRST had a animation contest. I guess I'll have to get involved again.

By: Bmud

Bmud — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:27:53 +0000

Haha.. FIRST.. Every year the animations just get weirder and weirder.

By: Hitechboy722

Hitechboy722 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:36:22 +0000

Autodesk has done something you just wouldn't ask others in the industry to EVER do. I belive this is a good example of healthy competition. Not the bull* that microsoft does!
Blender was amongst the top five that says something about blenders standing. But even more can be said about the team that pulled it off.
Congratulations are in order…

By: xsinick

xsinick — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:28:42 +0000

To all students, the industry is based on what you want to use.

eg. people like sketch up so now that piece of **** is a standard in the architectural world.

Don't be fooled Blender is the wave you want to ride ( i would say Softimage but I think Autodesk is messing it up already)

not being biased but these are the truths about it .

but using 3ds max for like all me professional career it was a headache when people expect it to perform the same way every time when it did not as it often had bugs and corrupted files.

If you ever used it in heavy production environment you'll know what I mean.

Once Blender get the new cut tool is good riddance Autodesk for me.

It's no the tool but the artist?

how ever says that do not know art history, as simple as the color blue is as a tool it spawned a whole movement in the art world .

And a person using oils can give you a more realistic image that with a single black sharpie.

By: Cub

Cub — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:12:43 +0000

They have to improve their PR nowadays. Good for the community, I guess.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:52:02 +0000

I was also given the impression that only Maya was allowed. Still think FIRST is a great idea and good to see Autodesk being a part of it.