Blender.org Gallery Updated: February 2006

Bart · April 7, 2006

I’ve just finished updating the February gallery on blender.org. It’s quite overdue and I’ll be doing the March gallery as well soon. Again, congratulations to everyone who made it in!
I thought that this time I would talk a bit about my work behind the scenes on the gallery.

My workflow looks like this:

I receive every gallery submission by email, around 20-30 a day. Most of them are ok but not top-notch and some of them really bad. As a hint: if you’ve just started to use Blender, I’m not interested in your first rendered cube :) We’ll only take the best of the best.

I keep the selected images in a folder in my mailbox, waiting to be processed. Once I find the time, I go through these images once again and compare them to each other. I then make a second selection.

Then it’s time to fire up Typo3, blender.org’s content management system. Entering the images is a bit of a pain since we never took the time to add a ‘real’ gallery module but hey, we only have to do it 12 times a year anyway ;-)

Finally, I send everyone who made it in a message to confirm that their work has been published in the gallery.

Oh, and these days, I post on BlenderNation to make sure that everyone notices the gallery update ;-)

Enjoy!

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.

7 responses

edna

7 April 2006 at 09:09

Fantastic. I often don’t pick up the nice images floating through Elysiun and the like, so it’s great to see them in the Blender.org gallery. Couldn’t you stick a note on the front page, or change the art gallery image to alert people to the update?

UglyMike

7 April 2006 at 10:25

No rendered cubes, he? Well, there goes my chance for fame and fortune…

Simon

7 April 2006 at 10:51

So cool to see all the top blender pictures on one site…
The march Update is in progress? great ;)

alabandit

7 April 2006 at 11:32

what about a really cool grey cube ;p thank 4 all your hard work

reaper

7 April 2006 at 13:53

I was disappointed to see my images did not make the gallery. However, I do see some excellent talent in the artwork that did make the gallery. So, in general, I am not surprised or put off in any way that I am not in there. However, I was disappointed to see almost the exact same image make the gallery for a second time. The kitchen image was shown in the gallery in the month previous to this. In my opinion, the older kitchen image was the superior rendering with better texturing. So, I am not sure why it was worthy to achieve a second gallery showing with a lesser quality image. That seemed odd. Any explanation for that?