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!

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: <enable javascript to view e-mail addresses>

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)

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.

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

• October 27th, I’ll attend the Affordable Art Fair, where my work is shown by the Chiefs and Spirits gallery.

• October 28th, I’m giving a brief talk about Sintel at the Trouw gebouw, during Kennisland and Digitale Pioniers‘ State of social media Summit. A small interview with me can be found here.

• October 29th – 31st, You can find me at the Blender Conference in the Balie.

• November 11th, I’m talking about sharing media, and the Creative Commons license at the mediapark in Hilversum, in cooperation with Kennisland.

• November 13th, I’ll talk about Creative Commons licensing your art, and take part in a panel, during the Economies of the Commons II . An event organised by the Institute of Network Cultures.

• 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.

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”.

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.

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