@ The gun debate:
Really? What about a job that demonstrates, piece by piece how an IED on the side of the road might be the last thing someone sees? It’s all in what the intentions are. Colt produces a lot of military and civilian weapons. From what the animation shows, it looked to be directed more to the military’s tactical side. Would the comments still have gone in this direction if it was demonstrating some bows and arrows? Crossbows? Same concept, right? People have hobbies that range from target shooting to hunting with both. It’s meant as a demonstration for Colt and shared with us in hopes of helping or could have been to let people know that Blender’s name is growing. I don’t know, anyone want to ask Tim?

Honestly, I see a lot of good that CAN come from this project and I hope that in the future we all can put our personal feelings out of the way, just to look at the work. If the video went more in depth it could potentially become a training aid for small arms repair personnel or an animated (dis)assembly guide covering multiple models. Maybe, just maybe, a larger company would be more open to the idea of supporting Blender in some way if they saw a real chance of it helping them. Wouldn’t it be great if Blender could get more donations and support to enable it to become the replacement for the software they’re currently using? They might write their own scripts to adapt to what they need, but it seems like it would start to look like the difference between some open source office software or operating systems and their ‘pay’ counterparts, only the benefit would be much greater on the open source side. I think it’s wonderful to see more and more professional work done for larger businesses. Not everyone knows how or has the time to learn to work with Blender. If it’s that knowledge and creative ability that helps someone put food on the table…what could be better?

If people can’t express their feelings, and may not have criticism, what is an discussion really worth anyway.

It’s still a good 3D model and animation though!

Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

A trade show that Colt would have a booth at is aimed at police, paramilitary and minor military organizations (I have been to several of these). For the record, you can’t simply go buy this type of weapon in the U.S. except for the modified, semi-auto automatic AR15 (and you don’t find those sitting on store shelves).

In last trade show I went to dealing with small arms, pretty much the whole world was well-represented, especially European and Eastern European arms manufacturers. HK probably had the largest presence. Pretending like there is something special about Colt or this particular piece of work is nothing more than anti-Americanism and very ignorant of the environment in which it is used (or the arms industry for that matter).

I think that many of you that are negative of the content should step back and really think about the context and the market for which it is intended. You should also ask yourself what open source actually means, as you’re going to be very unhappy with what many users are doing with Blender, especially those who are actually using it for work rather than hobby related content.