An Italian artist known as "e.perinelli" wanted to change his workflow to using open source tools.

One day he got the chance of doing 2 simple 10 seconds TV spots for an Italian shoes company, and though it was a good idea to test this workflow on a production environment.

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The projects that will participate on the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been announced, and again Blender was awarded with 6 projects!

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Last night's interview in the Dutch TV show 'De Wereld Draait Doort' with Ton and Sacha is now online!

Update: Dutch transcript is ready. If you want, you can log in and help to translate now. Thanks!!
Update 2: English translation is ready. Thanks for all the help!

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Yeah, not many people can say that ;-) Congratulations to the entire team for keeping this website running for almost two and a half years already!

On a side-note, last month we *almost* broke the 1,000,000 pageviews barrier for the first time, and I just noticed we broke the 4,500 RSS subscribers barrier today. We're doing great!

Having said that, the amount of Blender news just keeps increasing and posting only two articles a day just isn't enough to keep up anymore. We need help!

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Rule #1: Don't talk about The Brecht van Lommel Fan Club. Eh.. wait a moment..

Matt Ebb, one of the lead artists on the Elephants Dream project, has been busy creating commercial illustrations using Blender.

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Brecht and Campbell were interviewed for over 30 minutes on this week's FLOSS Weekly podcast. FLOSS Weekly is a very popular show - this news item was submitted by 5 people, a record!

Gaurav Mishra (gauravanim on the forums) will be giving a one-hour presentation on Blender at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India tomorrow. The presentation is part of the  Coda-Voda workshop.

Good luck, Gaurav - don't forget to send pictures!

Remember Adam Procter's short 'Doljer'? Director's Notes, a website on independent filmmaking, have posted a 35-minute interview with him.

Links

• 'Doljer' Released, Including .Blend Files
• 'Doljer' Playing on UK Filmfestival Filmstock

I'm not gonna spoil it for you - check out the video.

*proud*

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When I was at the Blender Institute a few weeks ago, we didn't only talk about Peach, Apricot and Durian, but Ton and I also talked about the future of Blender. What are the major changes that are planned for Blender 2.50, and what will happen to Blender in the five years after that?

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Two weeks ago I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today the eighth and final part: Brecht van Lommel, Technical Director.

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Two weeks ago I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part seven: Campbell Barton, Technical Director.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part six: Andy Goralczyk, Art Director.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part five: Enrico Valenza, Lead Artist.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part four: Sacha Goedegebure, Peach Director.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part three: William Reynish, Peach Lead Artist.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part two: Nathan Vegdahl, Peach Lead Artist.

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