Blender Winner in Animago Contest

Bart · May 30, 2006

Back in February we asked you to make us proud by submitting your Blender art to the German 2D/3D competition Animago. Well, you did!

The “Up & Down” entry by Sander Wit made 1st place in the “home/still/art” category, beating eleven competitors.

As a personal note, I’ve been carrying this image as the wallpaper of my cellphone ever since it appeared in February :)

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.

18 responses

etr9j

30 May 2006 at 18:13

This is definately number 1 compared to the others! Congrats Sander!

~J~

30 May 2006 at 18:37

Gotta say that is a gorgeous creation. Well done Sander.

Enrico

30 May 2006 at 18:38

Congrats Sander !

tokugawa

30 May 2006 at 20:14

Hmm… I like it too, but my friend has similar poster (real one, on real wall:P) for ages. Anyone know it’s name ?

BTW Sander, could you render a BIGGER one ? :) I don’t have anything nice for 1280×1024 :P

Matro

30 May 2006 at 20:20

Cheers for Sander and Blender!

Sephiroth

30 May 2006 at 21:49

Congratulations Sander

claws

30 May 2006 at 22:17

tokugawa: I think it’s inspired by Escher – but I might be wrong though

Wim

30 May 2006 at 22:18

Congrats!

Cortot

30 May 2006 at 22:22

Congratulations!
Since the appearance of this image it is in my personal favourites folder. Very clean, very cool setup. Congratulations!!

Gez

30 May 2006 at 22:51

Tokugawa: That render is based on an Escher’s picture. Sander Wit recreated it in blender.
As far as I know, the name of the original is the same: UP AND DOWN.

Vassilios Boucer

30 May 2006 at 23:44

Congratulations Sander!!

Tokugawa

31 May 2006 at 00:36

Gez: Thx

We can clearly read about that in details. What a relieve :) It’s great… actually if You copy-paste and filp it left/right you can have a reaaaly werid wallpaper :P

Malcolm

31 May 2006 at 04:57

This piece deserves the award. Its really such a well done piece.

Congrats!

Sander Wit

31 May 2006 at 13:28

Hey thanks guys :D

Bart just mailed me about this topic… so sorry for the late responce.

I recieved the official certificate last week and I ordered the magasine where all the winners are shown in, but that will take a while still I guess.

I am working on a tutorial or perhaps better called a project overview of this project and it will be shown on this website when I get it done. (I should have finished it ages ago but other things came up. So sorry Bart…)

Best regards

Sander Wit