Blender has long been a loose confederation of artists, programmers, and hobbyists. And with Blender becoming more and more powerful, people, schools, and studios are beginning to have the need and desire to use Blender in their organizations. However, there is often a great hurdle that must be overcome with Blender: Learning how to use it.

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folly, a British non-profit media arts organisation, is looking for a Blender workshop leader for their 'Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders' exhibition in Lancaster, UK.

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Would you like to seriously pump up your character animation skills? Want to get personalized instruction from industry leaders from the comfort of your easy chair? Check out The Online Animation School at www.animationmentor.com.

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Robert Schober has directed/created a music video using Blender for all modeling and animation. The video, "Dear Valentine" is the first animated video for The Burning Tree Projekt for their debut on MTV CHI and Asia.

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The professional 3D industry is slowly starting to discover Blender. Last month, two job opportunities have appeared on the BlenderArtist forum, and a new website has appeared that focuses solely on Blender jobs.

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Yorik van Havre wrote us about two of his latest Blender projects: visualisations for large-scale urban development projects (the largest of them measuring 29 million m2).

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Recently, there have been some interesting posts on Elysiun that deal with people moving from Blender to other 3D programs. Disturbing as I was reading about this, I went looking for companies that use Blender on a professional level to show that Blender can do a professional grade job.

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Hand Turkey Studios, an animation studio from Richmond, Virginia, have prepared the tag-on of their Firefox Flicks entry in Blender. The result is a professional animation that could reach a huge audience.

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ResPower have updated their Blender support with a great new feature: Split/Frame rendering. Now you can also use the power of their renderfarm to quickly render those insanely complex stills of yours, and not only animations.

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Here's a thought that has been nagging me lately: how come that there are virtually no commercial activities around Blender? A product with more than 250.000 users should be able to attract some entrepreneurial attention, right?

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Earlier this week there was a bit of an stir on Elysiun.com when it turned out that ResPower had posted some positive comments about their renderfarm service under pseudonyms. Some people even suggested a scam. I contacted them to hear their side of the story and Early Ehlinger, President of ResPower, sent me the following reply:
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Yesterday I mentioned that the ResPower renderfarm now supports Blender. But that's not all. Early Ehlinger, President of ResPower writes on the Blender.org forum:

Also, we have some minor bugfixes/patches that our lead blender developer, Cory King, should be signing on to the dev list to get integrated back into the trunk.

Kudos, guys! It's really nice to see companies who don't just take from the Open Source community, but who give back as well.

ResPower, the global leader in the on-demand computer graphics rendering industry, today announced another industry first: unlimited rendering for users of the Blender 3D graphics suite, for a low monthly price, available January 2, 2006.

"Blender 3D has caused quite a stir in the computer graphics world," says Early Ehlinger, ResPower's president. "More than 1.8 million users downloaded the free Blender software over the past year. More recently, over 250,000 users downloaded the 2.37a upgrade in just the first week of its release. The 2.40 upgrade made headlines in recent weeks. I believe this explosion in Blender's popularity means a whole new wave of creative 3D graphics enthusiasts is ready to make its mark in the computer graphics industry."

Does anyone have experience with this service? More info on their website, including prices for Blender.