Six months of silence

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

To my shame it has been 6 months since my last news post. A great deal has happened.

The Entoforms have progressed heaps. I showed them as the “featured artist” at the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam last October. And the website has had a complete redo.

I also started a project called the Shapewright. It is a website where you can create custom/unique objects to have 3D printed (or download to print your own). I took part in the Mozilla Festival last October showing people some of what makes it work, and making some stuff with them on the spot.

Another new project I started is the Blender Icons art book. It will be a book with the best works made in Blender 3D. So far over 80 images have been submitted by over 60 registrars. It’s going great and I hope we can publish it some time this year.

You can now also purchase a few of my patterns on Spoonflower.
And I opened an Etsy shop offering some special items!

My work was mentioned in 2 talks at the Blender Conference. One about art history, and one by Shigeto Maeda! I also had the honour to meet Shige in person and we exchanged art pieces (I’m so thankful).

Last but not least I moved back to The Hague. It’s a much friendlier city than Amsterdam (only 45min by train), and I already feel completely at home here in our cosy apartment.

All in all it has been a hectic time, with more on the way. I’ll try to keep you all informed!

The final push

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

After two months the crowdfunding campaign for the Entoforms is nearly over. So there’s only two more weeks left for you to get your own Entoform for very little money. After August 1st you’ll spend nearly 4 times as much for one.

Campaigning is really very much an emotional roller-coaster. I’ve already had quite some failures and successes. I’m not sure what exactly I’ll do these last two weeks… but I’m doing everything I can to make the campaign succeed. If you can help in any way… please do, or if you have a brilliant idea… please share… feel free to e-mail me:

Entoforms.com goes live!

Monday, May 16th, 2011

It took 6 months, and the equivalent of a 300 page book in writing, it’s time to take my current project to the next level!

The new website is on-line!
http://www.entoforms.com/

I also started a crowdfunding campaign! You can get your very own Entoform.
http://www.indiegogo.com/entoforms

Spread the word!

There are two banners available.
http://bit.ly/keeoYn
http://bit.ly/js40v8

Thank you all ever so much!
Dolf (macouno)

Moving along

Friday, March 11th, 2011

It has been a while since I last posted news… and a lot has happened lately. Most notably I’ve spent the last two months working on my Entoforms series. The project has gotten some attention on Blendernation as well as on thingyverse for instance.

Also.. see here on the right… Meta-androcto made a beautiful render of Petunia using luxrender! Thanks for giving me a copy meta… it’s always cool to see this stuff!

I spent this week teaching Blender at Highlander in London (England), and will soon teach a course at the CBK in Den Bosch (Netherlands). Feel free to contact them (or me) if you are interested in taking part.

Upcoming events

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

This fall/winter I already have quite a few events to attend/speak at. This is where you might bump into me.

  • November 11th, I’m talking about sharing media, and the Creative Commons license at the mediapark in Hilversum, in cooperation with Kennisland.
  • December 3rd, I’ll be in Utrecht to give Blender 3D demos for Dutch Policy makers in cooperation with Kunstfactor.
  • Also I’ll be leading a 2 day Blender 3D workshop at the art academy in Cologne sometime this fall or early in Januari, dates to be confirmed.

Wrapping up Sintel and moving on

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

SintelI just now realised that I haven’t posted any news since the Durian Project Screening. A lot has happened since then!

Sintel premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival with great success! Not only that but it has already been released on the web, and has been seen by a couple million people! I also just now posted a series of stills from the film here to show you some of what I did. The posters have been printed, and delivered this week, and the DVD’s are on their way.

I finished my first Lenticular project. The very first proof print is currently at the gallery. Go there to see it, or… hang on for a bit, because we’re planning a lot more!

At long last I found the time to finish the “meerkat” (now titled Sentry). I started the image before I joined the Durian/Sintel team (over 6 months ago), and only now finished it. Already I’m getting a lot of positive responses, and am considering doing a small series in this style.

Last but not least… it is almost time for the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam. My work has been shown at similar events before but never this one. I’m very excited and will attend the fair myself on Wednesday the 27th of October during the “Private View”.

Durian Project screening

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Last sunday was the private screening of Sintel (also known as the Blender Institute’s Project Durian). After being involved in the project for the last 5 months it was simply epic to view the nearly finished film on the big screen with full surround sound. Sadly, today, half the team is getting on a plane home. And as for myself… I will help wrap up a few last things, and perhaps create a tutorial or two to conclude my own involvement for now. The project has been life changing, the crew will be missed dearly. On to the next adventure! I hope to see you all there!

BoganBlender published

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

I just now uploaded my first build of BoganBlender. It’s a version of Blender that attempts to remove all “arbitrary” limits on input values. That also makes it somewhat unstable, and well… use at your own risk. But it should enable us to do things with Blender that aren’t normally possible.

You can find the Linux 64bit Blender Render Branch build here

Thanks to Campbell Barton for writing the patch. He is ehm… well not exactly opposed to the idea, but doesn’t really like it hehe. So extra thanks for writing something that you think is silly Cam, you’re a hero ;)

You can find the patch here

Be aware that if you edit/create blender files in this version, you may not be able to use them in other versions, and… they may well crash computers and do things you don’t want… this is a HIGHLY experimental version of Blender.

Color it! Oinkie

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Shapeways published a nice new feature that I’m proud I got to help out with. You can now color your very own piggybank! Go here to have a look. There is also an article about it on SolidSmack.com

Sintel trailer released

Friday, May 14th, 2010

After a lot of long days, and sleepless nights for some of the team, we finally released the trailer. It’s great to be able to show the world some of what we’ve been up to. More to come!

http://durian.blender.org/news/sintel-teaser/

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