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Category Archives: Blender Foundation
Blender and Sintel win 3D World Magazine CG Awards
Both Blender and Sintel have won Awards from 3D Worlds annual CG Awards. Blender picked up the award for Software Update of the Year, and Sintel won for Best Short CG Animation of the Year (Short Form). Congratulations to everyone involved!
Ton’s response to Blender winning the Software Update of the Year Award:
We’ve had many compliments for delivering this UI and tools redesign project. It’s been a huge task – over three years of work – something free or open-source projects typically are advised to never even attempt! An official recognition from 3D World readers means a lot to us: thanks!
Blender Development Fund issues first grants
The Blender Development Fund that started only one month ago, has already issued its first two grants totaling a whopping €2200. Have you subscribed for a donation yet?
Ton Roosendaal at Siggraph 2011
gToon writes:
Ton graciously agreed to be interviewed about future Blender developments while at the Blender booth at Siggraph 2011 in Vancouver. He spoke of the new Project Mango Open Source Movie Project that starts up in the fall, technical advances for Blender 3D software and the upcoming Blender network which will start in the fall.
Sintel speaks about her experience on Sintel
(Animation by Beorn Leonard, Audio by Sintel voice actress Halina Reijn)
Blender Development Fund & fund-raisers
With the current rapid growth of fundraisers in the Blender community, the Blender Foundation has decided to launch a centralized way to support independent Blender developers by opening the Blender Development Fund.
Sintel: Watched over 2.5 million times on YouTube
Jan Morgenstern writes:
The official #Sintel version on YouTube has crossed the 2.5 million views mark!
If you’re wondering what this is all about, click here ;-)
Sergey Sharybin Joins Blender Foundation
This news just came in: Sergey Sharybin (the GSoC developer who works on the already immensely popular camera tracking module) will join the Blender Foundation as a part-time developer. Ton Roosendaal writes:
I’m really happy to confirm that Sergey accepted a part-time job (30h/week) to work with Brecht, Campbell and me on general Blender tasks. It is partially to wrap up his SoC project, but especially for all the other jobs that keep lying around, like patch reviewing and bugtracking.
He’ll start September 1st, at least for four months now. If things work out well, his contract will be continued to be part of the Mango (open movie) developer support team.
Welcome Sergey! :)
-Ton-
TOTALLY deserved! Congratulations Sergey!
Sintel Soundtrack Wins Two Jerry Goldsmith Awards
Congratulations to Jan Morgenstern, who composed the sintel soundtrack, and to Esther Wouda who wrote the lyrics to the credit song “I Move On”, and to the whole Sintel crew on winning two Jerry Goldsmith awards at the International Film Music Festival. The awards were for best short film music and best song.
Announcement on the Durian project blog.
Offical Announcement on the International Film Music Festival Website (Spanish)
Sintel Sighting: NovaCut Video Editor
NovaCut video editor, a proposed open source, collaborative video editing platform, is currently looking for funding to finish development of the project. They used Sintel in part of the ad for their kickstarter page. Go and take a look and consider donating if you want to support developing a new open source video editor too!
