Stop SOPA! Stop BREIN! Stop BUMA-STEMRA! Stop GEMA! Stop HADOPI! Stop…

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Bart

The Blender Foundation is joining in the protest against the limitation of freedom on the internet.

Ton Roosendaal writes:

Blender Foundation is for an open and free internet, and is worried about how copyright protection is endangering digital rights in EU and USA.

I’m fully supporting the protests today against the SOPA bill that might get accepted in the USA. With Blender Foundation being established in the Netherlands, I would like to emphasize that similar ideas have either already been established or are being lobbied here and in other European countries.

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Blender E-store expands

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Bart

The Blender E-store is becoming more professional and will now also sell third-party products!

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Mango: Digital Makeup, Part 2: Face Deform Test

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Bart

After I published the ‘Digital Makeup’ video by Sebastian König this week, people were quick to point out this approach didn’t work for expressions. Well, no more – Sebastian figured it out.

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Mango: Script is Ready!

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Bart

Director/writer Ian Hubert has posted a glimpse of the Mango script. ‘No story, maximum impact’? Click and see..

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Mango Pre-sale Started, New Concept Art

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Bart

Support the Blender Institute’s next Open Movie Project, codenamed ‘Mango’, by pre-ordering the project DVD for €34 (USD 43.52).

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Mango: Artists added

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Bart

The Blender Institute has announced four new members of the Mango project: Francesco Siddi, Kjartan Tysdal, Nicolo Zubbini and Roman Volodin (2).

Open Letter: COLLADA momentum

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Bart

Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal voices some concerns about development of the COLLADA specification, and offers some suggestions for solutions.

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Call for screenshots and .blend demo files!

Posted on October 3, 2011 by cekuhnen

Ton started on Blenderartists thread a call for screenshots and .blend demo files. This is a perfect opportunity for everybody with creative skills to give back to this community through contributing visual as material as well as interesting .blend files demonstrating the tools and features Blender 2.59 has now.

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Project Mango kick-off

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Bart

The next Open Movie project by the Blender Institute, Project Mango, is now officially open! Director Ian Hubert (of Project London fame) will be director of the project, which focuses on visual effects (hence the cool sci-fi header on the Mango blog). Two other team members are also already known: Jeremy Davidson (Sintel character animation) and Sebastian Koenig (leading Blender trainer and Tomato tracker wizard extraordinaire). They’re still looking for new team members.

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