Both Blender and Sintel have won Awards from 3D Worlds annual CG Awards. Blender picked up the award for Software Update of the Year, and Sintel won for Best Short CG Animation of the Year (Short Form). Congratulations to everyone involved!
Ton's response to Blender winning the Software Update of the Year Award:
We've had many compliments for delivering this UI and tools redesign project. It's been a huge task - over three years of work - something free or open-source projects typically are advised to never even attempt! An official recognition from 3D World readers means a lot to us: thanks!
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Bravo !
Congratulations!! Deeply well-deserved!
awesome!!!! just awesome news around here :D
Congrats ;) !
Congratulations to all blenderheads! :)
Congratulations!!
Great job everyone! Congratulation for the well-deserved awards!
Yeeeees!
Yeeeaaah!
"Blender to the top of the world"
congrats to all sintel people and specially to Ton Roosendaal !!
I will be having a party on that on friday in Nigeria. To celebrate with some blender users.
Great news! Congrats.
Long live and Congratulations Blender Foundation!!! To all the Devs, thank you so much.
We landed on the moon because humanity assembled the correct set of brillant engineers. Open Source or not anything can be done when you bring together the right brillance.
Well deserved. A+ guys. The CG world will never be the same again.
few years ago some people told that blender was useful for fun
now blender is a winner
Congratulation , blender is an awesome tool and u guys worth this award.
Great news
bravo à Blender et à la Blenderteam.
Wow, so deeply proud I choose Blender as my main 3D app, congratulations yet again to the developers and the artists who forged Sintel...
Ton is the Steve Jobs of 3D Software!
Blender has come such a long way since it officially became open source all those years ago! Thanks to all the developers for making such a great software possible!
Blender is a wonderful peace of software who changes peoples life for the better.
It has changed mine and my sons.
No other software can be compared to Blender as it challenges some of the most expensive 3Dsoftware.
It deserves this software Award.
Sintel... I love the art concept from David Revoy.
Congratumalations to anyone involved!
Congratulations!!
Really great!
Thanks a lot to Devs and Sintel's makers!
Blender 2.5 is the Software update of the year!!!
We were SURE, Ton! :))
Very much deserved. Blender ROCKS!
Good Work
It's amazing how blender gets better and better. Is nice to see that it receives the recognition it deserves.
Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you for sharing your efforts and your work with all of us.
Best wishes.
YES!!!
Thank you so much Ton and all of the developers, thank you for your great works and the great software. You guys deserve great awards. Congratulations :)
Yay!! Congrats!!!
go team blender!
Always good to see the underdog WiN
Congratulations Blender developers and Sintel team! Great work all of you!
Big Congrats to Ton and all the team!!!
Congratulations Blender!
Great news, proficiat!
It's exciting to see Blender become more recognized as a serious contender in the 3d community and a tool that can produce professional results. I remember not too long ago it was typically looked down upon or dismissed partly due to it's unusual GUI. From time to time I'd dabble in it, and welcomed the changes in 2.5. The GUI overhaul has made it more accessible, and to many people's surprise, revealed a monster hiding beneath! RAWWWRRRRR!!! :-) This is a well deserved reward. I think the real shocker will be when people cannot land that job they wanted when they find out the studio uses Blender for much of there work, and they know very little of the program or mocked it in years past :-) Kudos again for delivering such a useful tool to the hands of 3D artist!
Sintel. Huge congrats on the recognition! Another well deserved reward!
Great news! Congratz!
Best wishes from Ukrainian CG artists!
Awesome work devs. :)
Congratulation and Thank You to all the developer and support community..
YES! Richly deserved. Blender is still the only software that I can open each time with a sense of excitement, even after 7 years. And it keeps getting better.
Congratulations guys!
You all deserved it!
Go BF!!!! thanks to Tom, all the developers and the comunity. EPIC WIN!!!!
I'll just chime in with the congratulations! This is really neat. Great job to the developers.
Completely well-deserved, guys. Just moved up to 2.5 and loving every minute of it.
Congratulations to Ton, all Blender Development Team, contributors and all wonderful and friendly Blender community. !
Yeah !!!
All the hardwork paid off..hats off to Blender Development Team...keep up the good work !
Congratulations Blender Foundation :D
Congratulations to all the developers whose efforts made this massive update to Blender a reality.
As a further comment, I have to say that whoever chose that particular image of Ton displayed next to the "Best Software Update" award on the 3d World site is a genius. That image should be featured as part of the 2.6 flash screen. :D
that's grrrreat!!!, but I hope there will be one day when "3D World Magazine CG win the blender awards"....it is just a metter of priorities....
Way to go Blender 3D!!! this is just the tip of the iceberg!
Blender Foundation and the community are just starting.
I'm also waiting in anticipation for the Gooseberry project in the future.
What will they say then?
Blender 2.5 FTW!
Woot! Drinks on me!(jk, :P)
Congratulations!