Comments on: Blender Conference videos online

By: kartal

kartal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:01:47 +0000

I own Modo, I love Modo. But I think Blender has a brighter future to be honest. I am moving to Blender slowly.

By: horace

horace — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:10:13 +0000

i agree with olaf!

and i liked your presentation, blender’s future looks very promising. :)

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:42:14 +0000

William don’t worry about it. The Modo users are just envious and we’ll be laughing all the way to the bank when Luxology is bought by Adobe and hardly ever updated again. Or when Luxology introduces yet another upgrade with a few extra features which it should have had from day one and makes their users pay through their noses.

All these commercial programs seem merely a distraction to me. They rise, then they stall or get bought by some other company and then they founder and their users jump some other ship and the whole thing starts over. Open source is something eternal, not to mention cost effective.

By: William

William — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:25:20 +0000

Wow, the Modo community didn’t like that!

Nothing in the presentation was meant as an insult to Modo – I think it has one of thest UIs in the industry. The mention of Modo in the presentation was merely about making the point that Blenders UI has some good design at its core – design elements that it shares with apps like Modo and others.

The mention of Photoshop CS4 was made to show a trend in the industry towards a subdivision-based layout.

-W

By: horace

horace — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:26:26 +0000

http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=30005&page=0

modo users found the gui video and are making fun of blender now! :p

By: ByronK

ByronK — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:40:24 +0000

These are great! Thanks for putting them up on the web for those of us who could not attend. Also the quality of the video and sound is so much better this year! I can hardley wait to see the rest of them. Also, It was great to see how Blender is being used in science and I plan to forward these to the science teachers in the area.

By: ubuntuist

ubuntuist — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:06:53 +0000

I totally agree that William’s presentation is great.

What Ton said about that Blender could be a “tool to make tools” is interesting. So it should be possible to make a puppet for the animator or an easily configurable shader for those who are responsible of texturing. In some extent it is possible all ready (rigs) but that could be pushed further.

By: ysvry

ysvry — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:00:24 +0000

not again a ui discusion the ui is good as is, let it be changable trough python so we can see a stop to this endless moaning for a maya like ui. Tons ideer is good dont sacrevice speed for looks. If some ui changes proof to be better in the python version, they can then always be included in the main program.

By: marijn

marijn — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:38:05 +0000

the UI interface video was really good, a must see (?!). i didn’t think i was going to watch any of them whole the way through. i failed… :P :D

By: Pablo Lizardo

Pablo Lizardo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:31:21 +0000

The presentation of Willian was awesome!
i’m wating for pablo vazquez videos!!!!!