A week ago I released all my design files. Or at least, those that I could find. I have to say how incredible the response has been! Within the first 24 hours after the news hit blendernation, and the blenderartists forums this site logged over 2000 downloads. In a week it’s grown to over 4000! I had expected perhaps a few hundred. It proves to me that my choice was the right one.
Thank you everyone! Don’t forget to let me know what you’ve done with my work.
After having a long deep think I finally decided to release the design files for all my published works. Since I’ve always been taught to protect my copyrights and source files it was a big step, but I’m confident it’s the right way to go.
You can read a bit more about it on blendernation and my post at the blenderartists forum.
I chose to release under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This means that anyone can use my works for anything they want, as long as they mention me as the creator/source of the design.
Emu made this wonderfull paper version of Petunia. This really is the reason I love giving things away for free. It’s incredibly motivating to see what people come up with.
For the full post with more images, and an explanation of how he did it go here.
For the second year running a design of mine is shown at the International Digital Art Show in Kingsport Tennessee. See the website of organiser Byron Kindig for some more information.
Three of my new works are now shown at La Copes in The Hague. It is a lovely cafe/lunchroom where you can get an excellent Spanish style sandwich. Go there for lunch and see some of my work in full size.
The address of the cafe is Koninginnegracht 74, which is at the corner of the ‘Laan Copes van Cattenburch’, and the ‘Koninginnegracht’.
Some of you may have noticed that autodesk acquired softimage. Some brilliantly funny people made a spoof video about it. In this video the term ‘BLENDER BOY’ is used as an insult. Many of us Blender users thought this was hilarious. So I decided to put some t-shirts in a shop and have them advertised on blendernation, just for fun, and to celebrate blender users everywhere.
Once again it’s that time. The Blender Conference hits Amsterdam. For the third year running I am taking care of the Animation Festival and Suzanne awards. This year I received a record number of entries. Some 75 people sent in their best 3d videos made in the last year.
As for the previous two conferences, this year I also got a LOT of help from volunteers with the presentation!
I was asked by the people from Kennisnet to help them with a 3D printing project. For their Surfnet Kennisnet Innovationprogram they went to a classroom, and had the school children come up with a new installation for their playground. I got the design and refined it/made a 3d model. This was then printed by shapeways so the children could see their design in real life! They also made a small video presentation (in dutch) about the project.
It took a while, but finally an image has appeared with the Paddywagon in it! It is one of the two models I’ve been working on for Project London. Ian did an amazing job texturing the model. Personally I can not wait to see it animated! Go see the subjectc.com blog for more information. In the meantime I’ll continue working on my second model, the Goose!
I did a small talk about 3d/open source, and how much fun it is to do cool projects with volunteers at the animation days at ‘Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond‘. The event there was organised by the people from ‘Doe het niet zelf‘. See their website for more information.