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About the Author
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.
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Lol, very interesting, thanks Bart! Worth watching :). Curious though, what role exactly do you play in Shapeways?
I'm community manager for Europe :)
Pre-2.5 screenshot. Though I suppose that’s historically accurate for the time of BBB. :)
When Peter and I worked for Not a Number we were releasing 2.0! The video is accurate :)
This is great. On a side note, I'm curious as to who make those super-wide monitors I saw on some workstations. I can use a monitor like that.
Great work there.
Super-wide? At which time code did you see those? I think you may have seen 2 regular monitors mounted side by side..
Bart, will Shapeways build a factory(s) in the Eastern Europe?
The problem why a lot of people here doesn't make orders is that the delivery system is very bad. I'm telling about Russia and I think you know it :)
But if say.. a factory is in Moscow (or any other Russian town) then you'll have a LOT of orders. It's well known technology here (in political and economical centers of Russia as Moscow, Saint-Peterburg, Ekaterinburg and some other cities.
I think your CEO must think about it and make some explore works here (to start business well). Here is a big area and we have only some very expensive printing services that aren't used massively (usually just by architectural firms and design bureaus and similar reach corps). You'll make an explosion in our market. It will be like a second "cheap cell phone net" here.
Hey Moolah,
I can't really comment on those plans, but I'll forward your suggestion :)
Bart
OK, Thank you! :)
So glad you're into this Bart. Can't wait for the laser sintering patent expiration next year and the Blender explosion to follow.
One of my favorite Blender moments was walking down to a business meeting with my Blender renders and a new, functional, 3D printed monitor enclosure for medical applications.
Don't even get me started on fluidics!
Funny how new ideas don’t really take off until the patents expire.
What does that tell you about the correlation between patents and innovation?