Looking back on 2006
Plumiferos
Plumiferos is an Argentinian project that aims to produce a feature-length movie using Blender. They have been quietly working with their team of over 30 professionals and from what we’ve seen so far, this is going to be the most complex and beautiful Blender production so far.
They are supported by the Blender Foundation: Ton is helping them by fixing bugs and implementing new features on-line, and the Foundation sponsored them by flying Bassam and Andy to Buenos Aires for six weeks to let them share their experiences with Elephants Dream.
- Blender Conference Plumiferos Presentation (Google Video / Bittorrent)
- BlenderNation interview with Manuel Perez and Ivan Hoffman of Plumiferos
Blender 2.42
Blender 2.42 introduced a new render pipeline, node editors for materials and compositing, an improved sequence editor, vastly improved character animation tools and much, much more. Without a doubt it was the most influential and ground breaking Blender release ever (until 2.43? :-)
BlenderArt Magazine
I am very impressed by what the BlenderArt Magazine crew is doing: every two months they publish a very professionally produced Blender e-zine. Each issue dives into a specific topic which they cover thoroughly, with tutorials, interviews and artwork. Managing Editor Sandra Gilbert does an excellent job at managing the crew of now more than 30 contributors (I know how hard it is to keep everyone interested ;-) – I hope we’ll see many more BlenderArt issues!
It was a great year for blender
It was the first year i started using it actually =D
I believe i started about February
I also found blender nation which i check every day
Thankyou for providing updates, Tutorials and interesting news every day.
Good job everyone!
Happy New Year!
Great summary :-) Lot’s have been done..
I wonder what is planned for 2007..
Happy new year
Blender is doing great. The game engine is getting improved. The renderer get’s new features. Blender now also has a sculpting tool.
Blender is really doing great!
I’ll have to wait 24-9=15 +/- 15 hours before it’s new year here.
Gtg to church.
Have a happy new year!
Bart and the other contributors of Blendernation, thanks for the effort in writing new and interesting things about Blender. Wish you all a happy and inspirational new year !! See you in 2007.
Great year.
Thanx for this wonderful (blender) community. Thanx also for BlenderNation (which i check every day).
Happy New Year all of you.
Who did the music for the Siggraph 2006 Blender Demo Reel. If I could find out I would ask permission to use the music in a movie of mine. Anyway, I appreciate everything blender and the good blender folk have done. Blender his helping to make my dreams come true. Thanks you everyone and thank you blender nation for keeping me in the loop. face loop that is.
@Chris: that music was composed by Jan Morgenstern (who also did the music and sound for Elephants Dream). You can contact him here: http://www.wavemage.com/contact-en.html
Right, good job. I think Blender is now a little bright star (and it’s grow up all the time) – Blender Power!!!! hihihih Happy New Year!!!
Great resumé of a busy year for Blender enthustiasts…
Let’s enjoy the New Year’s Eve, The future is bright !
Wishing the best for 2007 to the whole BlenderNation !!!
Its been a great year. You forgot to mention the excellent new editors you added this year! ;) *Cheers all* Lets have another good year.
Indeed I did! Gosh…
Hooray for all our editors!
You forgot to mention the Bullet physics engine and upcoming OGRE integration! ;)
Happy New Year !
My good plans for 2007 are:
More working with Blender.(2006 was a lazy year for me and Blender kept on develloping; and i was standing still !)
Stop making meself crazy by wanting to make moving animation, but concentrate on the design and make nice rendering of one frame.
Best wishes to the blender community; respect to all the developers!
@Cubedude04
Februari is a good time to start with Blender!
I looked back to my first Gingerbreadman (gus) in my old blend files.
And it was from 9 march 2005; So it must be around februari that I had really started with Blender.
Happy newyear blendernation!
Hip hip hoooray for Blender Nation. Thanks so much for posting every day. Thanks to all the people that helped at the Blender conference this year and the amazing quality of the video taken there. Thanks to all of YOU that commented on this post. I never feel like I’m alone when I run blender.exe in an empty room
i second that last statement.
it’s been 3 years since i first downloaded blender and I finally know how 2 use it now!!
i’ve been thinking, maybe Blender could establish a new world order. . .
Hmm… Blender World Domination…
I say Ton should take over the world and force all the 3DS Max users to use Blender.
“Time for ‘Reprogramming class!'”