Hello, little JesterPrincess!

Bart · August 13, 2009

Blender developer Nathan Letwory [JesterKing] became a father for the second time earlier today when his daughter RafaÃ«lla was born at 14:42 in Finland. RafaÃ«lla weighs 2820g and is 50,5cm tall. Both she and her mother are doing great.

We’re happy to report that RafaÃ«lla looks significantly less grumpy than her big brother Rasmus [JesterPrince], who is reported to have developed a passion for human beat-boxing and (duh) Blender!

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

91 responses

madturtle

13 August 2009 at 21:07

Congrats to Finland!!!!!!

…..by the way; i heard the 2.5 release is now paused till RafaÃ«lla visit the Kinder garden….. ;)

Nicknamz

13 August 2009 at 21:13

She’s really cute, congrats!

felipe

13 August 2009 at 21:21

Congratulations!!!
she is beaultifull.

Oscar Baechler

13 August 2009 at 21:21

Congrats!

Dread Knight

13 August 2009 at 21:23

hehe :D

Postmen

13 August 2009 at 21:29

Another job well done, congratulations.

http://video.google.nl/videosearch?hl=nl&safe=off&num=100&resnum=0&q=congratulation&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

StormRider

13 August 2009 at 21:43

-Congratulations Nathan!! Oh… wait… she’s not done with blender!!! xDD Good job anyway hehe. Good luck with her ;)

Aroidzap

13 August 2009 at 21:57

Congratulations… but i still waiting for Blender2.5… no, no, no don’t hurry. Children have priority..

Bohemenian

13 August 2009 at 21:58

best of luck ^^ good news

Month3d

13 August 2009 at 22:00

gratz nathan

RadialRonnie

13 August 2009 at 22:04

Imagine a 9 month render! Weuff. XD

Agustin

13 August 2009 at 22:15

Another excelent build as always!

Hope she follow the fathers steps in Blender carrer, personally i find technicals and engeniers womens very
sexy!

dmmdo

13 August 2009 at 22:34

i’d hit it. j/k

Matt Ebb

13 August 2009 at 22:36

Congratulations Nathan, Queen and Prince!

Ozzie

13 August 2009 at 22:41

Great build! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mike

13 August 2009 at 22:53

Congratz!!!! Always great to hear such great news.

DingTo

13 August 2009 at 23:29

Hey, Congrats Nathan. :)

teo_greengage

13 August 2009 at 23:33

omg this is so cute

Kernon

13 August 2009 at 23:43

Congratulations!

ByronK

13 August 2009 at 23:48

Wonderful! Congratulations Nathan and to the whole family.

dakiru

13 August 2009 at 23:51

NICE :-D Congratulations!

lich

14 August 2009 at 00:06

one more blender head in the world! :D
Congratulations!

Christian Lehmann

14 August 2009 at 00:10

Best wishes to you, your wife, your kids and your family.

dusty

14 August 2009 at 00:13

Weeeeeellcoooommeee to the world of tomorrow!!!!

CONGRATS!!!!!

Tim Formica [Room335]

14 August 2009 at 01:06

Wow, a new release! Nathan 2.5.

Congratulations!

Blendiac

14 August 2009 at 01:22

Congrats Nathan!

Thanks for all your work on Blender even with the little one on the way. Blendiac of the Blender community salutes you, sir! Hugs to JesterQueen and the newer additions to the family. :)

pixel master

14 August 2009 at 01:25

She’s adorable, congratulations!

Benjamin Rodriguez

14 August 2009 at 01:32

Felicidades!!! Desde Mexico.

Moonflower

14 August 2009 at 01:35

Congratulations to the King, Queen and Prince for the new addition to their family.

She’s beautiful. :D

mercury

14 August 2009 at 01:39

felicidades :D

RedJay

14 August 2009 at 01:46

Congrats JesterFamily!!!!!

Ivan Paulos (greylica)

14 August 2009 at 01:48

God Bless you and your family with health, love, peace and prosperity.

ysvry

14 August 2009 at 02:07

realy cute, congrats. And I wish her a happy life.

Gerbin

14 August 2009 at 02:38

hey congratulations! (at first i thought that baby image is in 3d LOL)

Mike

14 August 2009 at 02:38

Congrats! Hope the rest of the family is doing well too.

blenderguy2008

14 August 2009 at 03:02

congratulations ! I wish you all the best.

Kemeros

14 August 2009 at 03:07

Congratulations Nathan, i wish the best to you and your family!

DJaquay

14 August 2009 at 03:11

Congrats!

afalldorf

14 August 2009 at 03:15

Did you use scons for that build?

JK Congrats!

Ramdhan

14 August 2009 at 03:25

Blender community just feels like family.. Congratulation… For the baby birth.. ^^

Sill

14 August 2009 at 04:09

Congratulations!!!

Perferct model! Perfect render!! You rock! XD!

Wish you all the best!

TonyM

14 August 2009 at 04:32

Congratulations!

JackBlack

14 August 2009 at 04:45

Wow, look at thee SSS in that render!

Robbie Losee

14 August 2009 at 04:50

Congrats Mom & Dad! She is a beautiful little girl. :-) Yaay!!!

kABHIr

14 August 2009 at 05:04

so cute!

Congratulations!.

terence

14 August 2009 at 05:21

Congratulations!

RNS

14 August 2009 at 05:25

Sweet fatherhood..

phildog

14 August 2009 at 05:56

Way to go! Nice to see an intelligent person reproducing for once instead of an idiot who forgets to wear a condom.

Mataii

14 August 2009 at 06:01

Congrats Nathan! :)

Nathan Letwory

14 August 2009 at 07:09

Thanks to all!

What I did was take two metaballs, filled them with some dna-code, then squished them together. To make things easier I converted that into a mesh, then did just a whole lot of sculpting. I got lost with the multires and subdiv levels, but I guess in 9 months it got pretty high.

The lazy modeller I am, I didn’t do any retopo, nor normal/texture/AO-baking, you see the endresult in her full created glory. I used autoskeleton feature to do the rigging, and there was some autoanimation too. At least, after the 3d-printing everything just started working automagically!

jesterPrince is a lovely boy, I’m all excited to be now in for a second treat of growing babies! I’ll be on paternity leave from Monday on, a whole whopping 3 weeks (I love you Finland!) Of course I’ll be active as always, just doing more of that nappy-changing and feeding and all that again. w00t.

/Nathan

Anubhav

14 August 2009 at 07:19

Congratulations to you and your family!!

ralmon

14 August 2009 at 07:29

Wow she is so cute. Congratulations!

iuli

14 August 2009 at 08:21

yep, is so cute :) Congratulations

kero

14 August 2009 at 08:27

Pure awesomeness. Congratulations! :D

Yoaio

14 August 2009 at 08:39

Sweet fatherhood.
No bug !

Abidubi

14 August 2009 at 09:28

Congratulations :D

Saverio

14 August 2009 at 09:34

Congratulations!!!

kram2301

14 August 2009 at 09:47

Onnittelut!

WTF

14 August 2009 at 10:02

Who cares? Sorry, but I don’t give a fuck for!

Damien

14 August 2009 at 10:02

Congratulation!

Sanne

14 August 2009 at 10:57

Congratulations to you and your family, Nathan, and welcome to the world, little Princess. :)

Nathan Letwory

14 August 2009 at 10:57

@WTF – I’m glad you don’t gave one 9-ish months ago either :Â° Otherwise this wouldn’t have been my child, but yours? :O

Hoxolotl

14 August 2009 at 11:01

Congratulations, your plan to take over the world has been furthered by one minion.

I’m kinda remembered of the “you’re blendering too much” blenderartists thread when you start explaining how she came to be…. Bet it’s going to be a lot of fun the day they start asking about the flowers and the bees… and get an answer about a python going in a blender.

Besides the amount of moddeling I think you over-did the cuteness on this one.

Agile

14 August 2009 at 11:22

Congratulations:)

Fahassani

14 August 2009 at 12:35

Congratulations, May be in good health.

New Generation of Blender users!

John L.

14 August 2009 at 13:55

Congratulations
Best wishes to you and your family

Etienne

14 August 2009 at 14:02

Congratz and best wishes from Canada!

SephirothTBM

14 August 2009 at 14:28

Congratulations!

The little princess look very cute, I’m thinking about the new realeses in respect with the anterior build ;).
You and your wife have developed a really nice render engine, ‘cuz both of your creations are very good.

Cheer
Sephiroth the Bimbo Master

MARIANO

14 August 2009 at 14:44

MUCHAS PERO MUCHAS FELICIDADES
ESPERO ALGUN DIA TAMBIEN LLEGAR A SER PADRE

zdreamonz

14 August 2009 at 15:01

Congratulations
beautiful baby :D

OberonKing

14 August 2009 at 15:48

Congrats!!!!!……
Like we says in Argentina: “Una hermosa Beba!!!!” MuchÃsimas felicidades.

Cheers from Argentina

degentd

14 August 2009 at 15:58

Congrats and all the best… or in hungarian: “Isten Ã‰ltesse sokÃ¡ig!”

Tim Nevo

14 August 2009 at 16:39

Which render engine did you use? What is the meshes poly count? Where can I get the .blend? Yet another example of how Blender beats the competition! (yes, I know it’s a real baby).

Ianvdl

14 August 2009 at 16:45

Congrats JesterFamily! :D

Manuela

14 August 2009 at 17:03

Congratulations!
she’s beautifull. we all hope she grows with health

Manuela

14 August 2009 at 17:05

Congratulations!
she’s beautifull. we all hope she grows with health
love and money.

Psion

14 August 2009 at 17:07

She looks so lifelike! Can we have a tutorial?

dyf_

14 August 2009 at 17:31

she looks much like Nathan

Tom (not Ton)

14 August 2009 at 18:05

CONGRATULATIONS!

Corniger

14 August 2009 at 18:31

Awesome modeling and skin shader, the SSS really raised it another level. Luckily there’s Alt-B, or was she on another layer? No, that was a fractal script :-P Dude, congratulations! Sure will be a great kid with a fun dad!

Paul

14 August 2009 at 19:34

Welcome, RafaÃ«lla!

DK_Posthumous

14 August 2009 at 21:28

Congratulations Nathan! She’s adorable! All the best to you and your family :)

Satoshi

15 August 2009 at 00:38

Congratulations Nathan!
Will she develop a passion for singing and (duh again) Blender? :)

chimericidol

15 August 2009 at 02:14

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Azmisov

15 August 2009 at 06:32

Beatboxing is one of my favorite hobbies.

Phil

15 August 2009 at 12:15

Congrats! Will you be releasing to code behind this project as open source?

John

15 August 2009 at 19:02

Congrats on your baby daughter…

father to be

16 August 2009 at 05:38

CONGRATS!!!! i dont see why people are so worried about the 2.5 release tho. u have a daughter now! enjoy it! dont waste time on trying to please other people, enjoy your family! :-)