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BlenderArtists is Back!

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Jonathan and Wes from Blender Cookie have worked around the clock to restore BlenderArtists. Blender Cookie is now hosting the site, but BlenderArtists will remain an independant and open community.

Jonathan writes:

Welcome back to Blender Artists! As you all know the site has been down for a while now. But now it’s back, hopefully stronger than ever!

Over the course of the last week a lot of things have been happening behind the scenes. As most of you probably know by now, our beloved Roel (Goofster) has stepped down as the owner/maintainer. He has spent the last 10 years helping to make this site a reality and he deserves every ounce of credit we can give him.

In his stead, myself and Wes Burke are stepping in to take the reins and help Blender Artists get back on it’s feet with the help of CG Cookie / Blender Cookie. We are very honored, humbled and proud to have been approached to help drive the site and to carry it on to the next level.

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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.

22 Comments

  1. BlenderArtists is in good hands. I can't think of better folks to host BlenderArtists, to continue its open and independent community legacy. And thanks for 10 years of great support in the Blender community, Goofster. Give that man a hand!

  2. :) So Blender Artists has more resurrections then Blender did... Who would have thought that.

    10 years Goofsters? Wasn't it that Timo guy that startet BlenderArtists?

  3. I've never explicitly gone to BlenderArtists before, but I never realized when I googled help for Blender, how much of the good stuff is directed there.... until it was gone ... *sniffles. But it's back!

  4. Great news, I've missed it already while trying to lookup info on Google and only pointed me to some BlenderArtists forum posts and couldn't find the info I was looking for anywhere else... Yes, it was highly annoying... xD

  5. What's the link to BlenderArtist..... oooohhhh yeah... It's in my bookmarked section. I have no idea how it got there. Man you guys are good.

  6. I for one personally welcome our new Blender Cookie overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted BlenderArtists personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground polygonal caves.

    Thanks guys! :P

  7. Great news, actually ! I was worried about the future of this great site. I have learnt so many things thanks to this helpful community ! A big thank you to its managers, past present and future ! Long life to BlenderArtists !

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