New Headers Selected, Header Rotator Added

Bart · August 9, 2008

After last week’s call for a new header we received almost 30 submissions! I’ve picked the 10 best and added them to the site.
All of them? Yes! Several people have suggested rotating through the header images automatically, so I’ve added this function to the site. Instead of displaying a new image with each pageview though, I’ve chosen to display a new image every day. That should make browsing faster and I think it’s a bit easier on the eyes.
To see the ‘winners’, see below! (Oh, and adding new images is a breeze, so keep ’em coming!)

Eradicor:

MP:

knekke:

Dion Moult:

Kubeczek77:

ROUBAL:

lile:

tatasoka:

deathblood:

Rigoberto Ortega:

Dalai Felinto:

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.

57 responses

Jean-SÃ©bastien Guillemette

9 August 2008 at 09:02

very nice choices! I like them alot.
I don’t know if you caught mine since I just added it to the other post a few hour ago, so here it is in case you missed it. Feel free to ignore if you saw it already.
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_xracer.png

GustavTheMushroom

9 August 2008 at 09:03

Congrats!

Although Im just curious if youll be rotating the old headers also?

Bart

9 August 2008 at 09:06

@JSG: yeah, I saw it but found it a little bland with all the blue..

@Gustav: certainly! I’ll do that later, first let’s enjoy the new ones.

Lasphere

9 August 2008 at 09:51

Thats some nice headers! Really like MP’s and -lile.

AniCator

9 August 2008 at 10:00

It’s good to know it won’t load an image every page load because I get crazy of all those image rotators that display a new image every page load. Not because of the images I have to download but because of the chaos it creates. I’ve once seen a website with a very confusing image rotator.

AniCator

9 August 2008 at 10:01

And why is my gravatar no longer working?

Bart

9 August 2008 at 10:02

“And why is my gravatar no longer working?”

We rotated it! Harhar :)

AniCator

9 August 2008 at 10:03

Lol.

AniCator

9 August 2008 at 10:09

I think I fixed it now. All I have to do is wait for it to pop up again.
It was rated X instead of G.
(like my ‘A’ avatar is adult content :P, yeah right)

Dread Knight

9 August 2008 at 10:16

@Jean-SÃ©bastien Guillemette: i think yours is great as well!

Jakub BatÃ³g

9 August 2008 at 10:20

Very nice headers:) Congratulations.

aws357

9 August 2008 at 10:33

Nice harvest :D
Congratulation for the winners and hurray for the BlenderNation staff for the rotatiminator ! (rotator would have been to simple to write)

aws357

9 August 2008 at 10:38

Sorry for double posting, but another suggestion…

Suppose a headhunter goes to Blendernation and is wowed by the header…

Maybe there should be a link with more details… an “about our header” link with contact info or portfolio/personal website (if not kept private) in case someone is looking for people to hire.

If potential employers just had to click on the header to have the info…

Don’t know if it could or should be done ? :p

ray

9 August 2008 at 10:46

Very good idea.
Is the one from knekke Datura flowers?
@Bart you mistook JSG for JMS

ray

9 August 2008 at 10:49

PS: re-rendered in Orange I think JSG car could fit in the mosaic.

Kirado

9 August 2008 at 11:19

wow.. all pretty cool.. while some are just incredible.. I love the blimp and the dinosaurs

MrNoodle

9 August 2008 at 11:48

They are very beautiful!

Benjamin

9 August 2008 at 11:49

the one by eradicor is amaizing.

dusty

9 August 2008 at 12:10

yay! well done to all who got in the top 10

Folsk

9 August 2008 at 18:09

Great headers! I especially like Kubeczek77’s entry.

Just remember folks, “alot” is NOT one word. The same goes for “noone.” What is that, midday?

koblesky

9 August 2008 at 19:11

Sorry, my entry had an error. Here they are as hopefully readable imageshack links. Thanks for the consideration. The banners look great and I would count myself lucky to be shown with them.

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/5339/kobleskybanner2bc4.jpg
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/2274/kobleskybanner1pd6.jpg

Dion Moult

9 August 2008 at 20:07

Woohoo! I got in the top 10! Thanks a lot guys!

tatasoka

9 August 2008 at 20:26

My header is there! ^^

Thanks a lot”

Rigoberto Ortega

9 August 2008 at 22:34

Â¡Woooooohhhooo! My header is there too, I feel very very happy for thisâ€¦ because I am new in the use of blender. really this is a great incentive for my to continue learning and improving in the use of this huge tool.

Thanks to all!

soulvector

9 August 2008 at 23:23

Nice stuff :) I especially like image no3 “knekke”….

10 August 2008 at 02:37

Some of these look to good to have just been made for a banner. I want to see the full versions!

Jean-SÃ©bastien Guillemette

10 August 2008 at 03:07

bah I seriously was spinning around on my desk chair wondering what to do to get me started on some project tonight, and I ended up on blendernation wondering if I had another render to bake into an header…so I had some fun, sorry to spam the comment section !

first off, I redid the xracer one with the original color in case,
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_xracer.png

http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_xracer2.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_robot.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_path.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_lightbulb1.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_lightbulb2.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_lightbulb3.png
http://www.montagestudio.org/Ecks/header_jsguillemette_citylight.png

Midian

10 August 2008 at 05:09

I love that MP’s submission made it in. One of the best of the blender artists and his simplest work ever for the cube challenge made the cut. Pure awesome. Bunch of great submissions though definitely like Lile’s the most. Those eyes are captivating.

knekke

10 August 2008 at 06:18

@ray: I guess you are right. Seems to be a Datura… I modeled it after a picture a friend gave me, thinking it was some sort of lily…. I didn’t mean to do a drug commercial, would have done some fungies instead…. ;)

ysvry

10 August 2008 at 08:18

ill quickly made some banners too.

http://home.deds.nl/~mp/banner/mpic001.gif

http://home.deds.nl/~mp/banner/mpic002.gif

http://home.deds.nl/~mp/banner/mpic008.jpg

have a good sunday all

Faquin

10 August 2008 at 16:25

Woh…Bart, you have to take at least one banner made by Ecks !

JS, they’re wonderful.

Adrian Parkinson

10 August 2008 at 17:23

Nice ones. Can we include photo backgrounds?

Durden

10 August 2008 at 17:57

is there any chance to rotate them all?

Bart

10 August 2008 at 19:28

@Adrian: rather not.. only Blender work, please!

Evander

10 August 2008 at 19:56

Here is mine suggestions:

http://home.broadpark.no/~thonords/pb2-b1.jpg
http://home.broadpark.no/~thonords/helius_logo.jpg

Tony

11 August 2008 at 03:08

This is nice. Keeping the quality and also having some variety. Love Deathblood’s characters!

I do have to say that I dig Ecks’ lightbulb2.

Jacek Brzezowski

11 August 2008 at 07:44

The new header is nice but why the name of the author is so deep dark?!? Make it eye friendly, please.

knekke

11 August 2008 at 10:13

My header has been picked for a Sunday.. how am i supposed to boast about it in front of my collegues?? At least i took a screenshot *sigh*

Bart

11 August 2008 at 10:15

@knekke: it’ll get back in a while. It’s a rotator, you know ;-)

congcong009

11 August 2008 at 12:22

Is that a deadline now? Can I update some now? I want to share some banners too~~:) Sorry I’m late~~:(

Have a good time~~~

http://photos2.pix.ie/25/D1/25D1D84270834E43AFA54D86BC7ED437.jpg
http://photos5.pix.ie/9B/97/9B973BC4F16E4FC4955F82AC6EC76A1A.jpg
http://photos2.pix.ie/13/E7/13E7DA5147444603A6EE169C038817E8.jpg

rstralberg

11 August 2008 at 20:58

Wonder why almost everyone has a Microsoft Desktop Blue background :)

Nice pictures

manuel

11 August 2008 at 22:06

here’s mine
http://www.creamsurfer.de/header_manuel2.png
http://www.creamsurfer.de/header_manuel2.jpg (jpg version)

Bart

12 August 2008 at 06:56

@rstralberg: because we asked them to ;-)

Tynach

12 August 2008 at 07:01

Today’s picture looks like they made the gradient too light a blue, as it clashes with the darker blue used with the header background.

Bart

12 August 2008 at 07:09

@Tynach: indeed! I’m pulling it for now.

@Eradicador: can you please re-check the background color of your banner and email it to me? (bart @ this site)

meltingman

12 August 2008 at 15:16

Dalai Felinto

12 August 2008 at 18:12

Today is my kodak moment :)

I think this is the first work in BGE to compose a blendernation header, right?
This is a screen direct from the game, no post-production on it.

I didn’t put my name because there are other people in the team that also have a part in this job.
Some of then: Mike Pan, Pinuja (modeler), and all the team from the first phase of the project.

amoose136

15 August 2008 at 21:39

Could we add a Favicon to the site please?

Kubeczek77

16 August 2008 at 02:07

Why my work wasn’t on the site? Lile Hansen’s work is second time on the site…

Dalai Felinto

19 August 2008 at 18:52

Interesting how the rotator is working …

Today is the third time my work is displayed.

Is the rotator taking less then one day per image?

Bart

19 August 2008 at 20:21

@Dalai: yeah, the script is still a work in progress. I had to make a few minor changes to it which caused it to restart. I’m still figuring out how to add new headers to it without screwing up the existing order, so you may see another few hickups :) To answer your question: it’s supposed to show only one image per day.