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Looking back on 2006

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By on 3D News

Books!

No less than four new Blender books were either announced or released this year. As you may know, I'm a firm believer in people who try to build a business around Blender, either by providing services or by producing products such as books. The fact that new books are appearing proves to me that Blender is no longer 'just' a hobbyist application, but that it is quickly gaining acceptance in the professional market.

Blender Conference 2006

The BConf was of course one of the highlights of the year! There's nothing better than seeing Ton run around all weekend with this huge grin on his face, and meeting old friends from the community again. This year there were more visitors than ever before and I don't think we'll fit into The Waag again next year.BlenderNation tried to open up the conference somewhat to the community by providing daily video journals. Also, most of the sessions were recorded by the Blender Foundation and are available for download in high quality.

Dear Valentine Music Video

valentine.png The 'Dear Valentine' music video was produced by Robert Schober for the Burning Tree Projekt, for their debut on MTV CHI and Asia. It's one of my favorite videos of this year; even while the animation and rendering aren't particularly impressive (although I do like the 12fps, flat rendered look), it does show what happens when you put Blender in the hands of a professional: the storyline and editing are excellent and the video is a joy to watch, again and again. Can you believe this was Robert's first project in 3D?

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About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

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 Head of Community at Sketchfab.

18 Comments

  1. Cubedude04 on

    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.

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  4. AniCator on

    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!

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  5. Johan on

    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.

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  6. zooley on

    Great year.
    Thanx for this wonderful (blender) community. Thanx also for BlenderNation (which i check every day).
    Happy New Year all of you.

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  7. Chris Stones on

    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.

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  10. r3615 on

    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 !!!

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  14. Jasper on

    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.

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  16. Bmud on

    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

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  17. Chris E on

    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. . .

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  18. Tynach on

    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!'"

    Reply

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