Comments on: Blender, BBB in 2008 CG Retrospective!

By: ROUBAL

ROUBAL — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:55:49 +0000

Good news. It is always a pleasure to see well desserved comments about the Blender foundation work. Congratulations !

Merry Christmas Bart ! Merry Christmas everybody !

By: Vainqueur

Vainqueur — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:25:08 +0000

@Bart: LOL=)

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:53:32 +0000

@ysvry: hardly! There's a difference between liking something and being a fanboy; fanboys don't accept criticism of their beloved product. I curse Blender on a daily basis ;-)

By: ysvry

ysvry — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:33 +0000

said the biggest fanboy of all :P

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:41:58 +0000

@Vainqueur: I think you have a valid point there; I'll give this issue some thought and see how we as BlenderNation could contribute to a less fanboy culture.

*quickly hides his Macbook Pro* ;-)

By: Vainqueur

Vainqueur — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:36:31 +0000

Heh.. I don´t even use C4D=P Have tried it though. Prefer XSI myself. Again you failed to see this in the proper perspective, and reacted as a Blender (or OSS in general) zealot would – thus proving my point..

though I haven´t been very active in the Blender community as of late, I am a big fan of Blender. Even contributed with a quite popular tutorial a couple of years back (still get e-mails to this day about that one, which gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside=) and Blender development is something I follow with great excitement. However I do feel that the fanboy attitude that is sometimes present in this community is working against a wider acceptance into the wider 3D community.

By: Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

Jean-Sébastien Guillemette — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:17:22 +0000

Magiciandude, don't be a blender fanboy ;) Vainqueur does have a point. It's amazingly nice to see blender and BBB on the 12th position on the list, but it's all about context and perspective. The same way that Autodesk + softimage got the first spot doesn't mean it's the greatest thing in the industry right now….most of everyone over at cgsociety thinks it's bad for the industry. It's just because it was a HUGE event.

But yeah, as they stated, while we see Autodesk buying every other 3d related company, Opensource software like Blender give a damn good alternative!

By: Magiciandude

Magiciandude — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:01:37 +0000

Somebody's a pissed off C4D Fanboy…cough…Vainqueur…cough…
Congrats guys! That spot was definitely earned!
Merry Christmas!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:12:35 +0000

Its also kind of funny, because BBB wasn't entirely made from volunteers. In fact the main amount of work was
paid for.

By: Vainqueur

Vainqueur — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:57:40 +0000

Please, Blender Zealots – undertand this list the right way=P For instance, if a Blender event is ranked above, say a C4D event, it doesn´t mean that they think Blender is better than C4D. It just means that the event in itself is more noteworthy. I.e, the release of a totally opensource movie that doesn´t suck total ass, is more interesting than an incremental release of C4D – from an industry perspective – see? It also doesn´t mean that BBB was better than the other movies and shorts placing behind it (c´mon now=) Get some friggin perspective, peeps!