Friday Hangout: How do YOU promote Blender?

Blender users are a passionate bunch, and most of us love to promote it wherever we can (well, at least, *I* sure do ;-). I’m curious: did you ever have an extra awesome opportunity to introduce Blender somewhere or to someone? How did it go – did you ‘convert’ them? And what was it that convinced them?

Amor Sacro

Amor Sacro (sacred love) is a short film that was shown at the Sitges Film Festival this week. The visual effects for the wings were all done in Blender. It was also projected at the Capitol Cinema in Madrid on Thursday 27th of October.

Blend Swap Download Policy Changes

Due to its ever growing popularity, Blend Swap is running into bandwidth limitations. In order to prevent a total site meltdown, they are now introducing a new download policy: unregistered users can download 100MB/week and registered users who share models can download up to 150MB/week.

Matthew and Jonathan elaborate on the background of this change on the Blend Swap blog. It sounds like a wise decision to me, and running into these limitations is definitely good news ;-)