Blender 2.8 Code Quest Live Q&A with Ton Roosendaal

Bart · February 15, 2018

Pablo and Ton hosted a live session yesterday about the Blender Code Quest.

In order to be as transparent and clear as possible about the status and the scope of this project, Blender Institute has organised a live stream with Ton Roosendaal and Pablo Vazquez, during which it will be possible to interact in real time and get pretty much any question answered.

Author Bart

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 Community Lead at n8n.

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Marcelo Soares

15 February 2018 at 17:03

Wow, that is an amazing news.

Frank Busch

16 February 2018 at 18:30

1031 Rockets are sold at this point. I think Ton is right with the 2000 Rockets will be sold prophecy.

It´s a good feeling that the community is showing their love :)

I allready bought my rocket. Get yours now :)

Big Fan

16 February 2018 at 22:29

Typical Ton,
– Big bold ideas, too big to execute really without rescuing it by raising more money, intense in house sessions to make up time.
– Moving on from the last iteration before things are well concluded.
– Not really interested in engaging users feedback, just inconvenient noise, should be grateful recipients of benevolent dictatorship.
Not that I dislike Ton or 2.8 but just saying…

Bart
16 February 2018 at 22:35
Still trolling as always eh?
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1. Big Fan
  18 February 2018 at 08:24
  No, I’m not looking for reaction or trouble. I am making an honest observation.. as always.. I see a pattern in these endeavours of falling short, that’s all.
  I noticed even coders have said they considered they took on too much at one time with this 2.8 project after getting a bit jaded with a period mostly bug fixing… Still there is a lot of good stuff in the pipeline. I wouldn’t diminish that. I just wish Ton would ease up his ambitions a little ;)
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  1. djtartak
    20 February 2018 at 10:55
    that’s one point of view
    I find it inspiring that they dream big
    Kinda like Gimli’s line “Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for !!?”
    I wish I had some spare money now to buy my rocket, hopefully I will in spring
    A crisis is also chance
    I guess this codequest is a good solution to overcome the obstacles.
    I am really excited about 2.8 – so much usable for me there…
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Stephen
17 February 2018 at 12:44
Ground Control to Major Buzzkill, we’ve picked up a variance between your current trajectory and and the planned route. Course correction: one niner eight two five oh five. Confirm. Over.
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