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.