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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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 one: Ton Roosendaal, Producer for the Blender Institute.

Update: video replaced by Bmud's subtitled version (click the 'up' button in the lower right corner to activate the subtitles)

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Roland Hess (aka harkyman), editor and lead author for “The Essential Blender” and creator of the BlenderPeople crowd simulation project, has been busy with yet another promising project…“The Beast”.

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Dahna McConnachie of Computerworld Australia interviewed artist (and developer) Matt Ebb about Elephants Dream the and process of creating an open movie.

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Joeri Kassenaar, former employee of Not a Number, will be hosting a full-evening session on Blender at the STRP Art & Technology Festival 2007 on November 24th in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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Tom Musgrove was interviewed by Computer World recently. Its an interesting read.

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On Sunday afternoon at 13.49, my son Mathias Jorrit was born. Mother and child are doing great. I never knew you could be this happy and proud (and tired ;-).

Satish Goda and Shrinidhi Rao will be hosting a 1-hour Blender presentation during the International Animation Day in Mumbai, India on Sunday, October 21st.

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"A racoon, alone in the woods, to the haunting sounds of ‘The Knife’. "

This is the description of Adam Procter's short 'Doljer', which has been accepted into the UK filmvestival Filmstock in Luton.

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Ian Elsner is sharing some of his thoughts on modeling and animating while working on his movie, 'Eros', in a series of video monologues. Interestingly enough, he recorded three episodes while on holiday in Greece and China.

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Tony Mullen and Roland Hess were invited to the Wiley & Sons Author Dinner at SIGGRAPH.

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While we were teaching at Red Hat High, Sam Brubaker (Rocketman) decided that he was going to release the .blend file to his animation, Infinitum, under a Creative Commons license. Infinitum won the 2006 Suzanne Award for "Best Animation, original idea, or story". He has chosen the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommericial license 3.0.

Get the Infinitum .blend file (right-click and Save As). Have fun!