Quicklinks – Blender in the Media
Here’s another handful of items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a new Blender tutorial in 3D World magazine, an interview with Enrico Valenza in the Italy, mentions in two German magazines and finally the appearance of Elephants Dream on DivX.com
Enrico Valenza (EnV) wrote:
Hi Bart, the October issue of the Italian version of Computer Arts magazine includes a four-page interview full of images about me, Blender and the Opensource.
Regards,
EnV
Andreas Fischer wrote:
Blender appears in a big 3D-Animation roundup featured by the german magazine iX in its most recent issue. The article compares 3DSMax 9, Maya 8, Cinema 4D 9.6, Softimage XSI 5.1 Electric Image Animation System 6.5, messiah:studio 2.4, Houdini 8.1, Lightwave 9, Carrara 5, Truespace 7, Blender 2.42, Realsoft 3D 5.1, Strata 3D CX 5 and Shade 8.5 (also taking different â€Lightâ€/â€Pro†versions of each program into account). Each program is tested on its capabilities in modeling, animation, simulation/dynamics, particle system, texturing/material system and rendering.
Their view on Blender is, that it is on a par with commercial packages, as demonstrated by Elephants Dream, and that, due to it being free of charge, it is a great opportunity for beginners to have a look at animation and rendering.
They also praise the Import/Export facilities and the flexible interface, stating that several of the contenders might want to take a look at the latter.
Florian Findeiß wrote:
The German Magazine for adventure Media “Abenteuer und Phantastik” has an article about Elephants dream and an interview with @ndy in its latest issue. It’s not available online, but worth a buy.
They write: “Elephants Dream – The adventures of Proog and Emo is the world of the machine: a making of the world’s first Open Source animation movie and an interview with its art director Andreas Goralczyk”
To round things up, it would seem that the DivX people really like Elephants Dream. It not only appeared in their newsletter, but they also host the movie:
Bmud wrote:
DivX Stage 6 hosts 1280 elephants dream embedded in the browser! This just freaks me out! I think Google video is in trouble…
“To round things up, it would seem that the DivX people really like Elephants Dream. It not only appeared in their newsletter, but they also host the movie”
And there’s even a screenshot of ED in the banner on their homepage!
Animation newbies? Doesn’t sound very fair to me. They’re the best Blenderartists and they get placed under animation newbies? Not fair.
@Robin: ehm, what are you talking about?
I think He is talking about the Category that the movie is under in Stage6.
Hey, it’s above Spiderman 3 trailer ;-)
Does it matter if somebody put it under the “animation newbies” category?
It’s clear that the result isn’t a newbie work. Everybody loved it!
Great news! Only I dont get the ‘Question of the Month, submitted by blenderartists.org forums’ article’s scope. Did BA send the particular question to 3D world?
i didnt understood that too, as for being newbie, nothing bad at all, if you stop to think it means that you can still learn a lot as if you were a master you wouldnt have so much to learn.
3dworld edits the question to their liking; typically, the “Q”s for the Q+A come from the 3dworld forums, but since blenderartists is more active, I tend to have to get blender specific questions from there. So it’s not “submitted” via blenderartists, it’s just that the original question came from there.