Blender was named as one of the Top 10 Animation/VFX Tools by Animation Magazine! Check out the article here. Thanks to Nick Flynn for the article suggestion!

The Institute for Network Cultures has invited the core developers of Blender to Amsterdam for a 'Blender sprint'. Winter Camp is an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and will take place 3-7 March ‘09 in Amsterdam. A dozen networks (each of which has 5-15 people) have been invited to work on their specific [...]

The Institute for Network Cultures has invited the core developers of Blender to Amsterdam for a...

Watching too much TV makes your brain rot. Here's proof in an excellent short film by Endre Baráth [endi]: The Death Grind.

The guys who made Tripeace have just released their latest music video. This time the song is "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" which roughly translates to "I am here to tell you that I am going". And once again its a animation well worth watching. The song was written by a very [...]

To kickstart some new levels for Yo-Frankie I have decided to run a six week competition to create new levels for the game. These can then be included in a future release of YoFrankie, which will include updates for the next blender release and bugfixes. Goal: Create a great new level for YoFrankie based on the [...]

The first Blender animation challenge, held over at Blenderartists.org, has finished taking entries and is now in the voting stage of the challenge. There's a huge amount of entries, so it will be a bit of work sorting through them to find a favorite to vote for. You might remember the previous article on Blendernation, bringing [...]

The Finnish architects K2S recently won a big architecture competition for the design of a new hospital. The main visualisations were done in Blender. Abel Groenewolt tells about the adoption of Blender in his office. Abel wrote: The architects office where I work (K2S Architects, Helsinki) has just won a big architecture competition for the design of [...]

Woah! Three years have already passed since I began a small experiment in blogging :). Time for a birthday present! Maybe you remember our previous fundraiser where we donated 1 classroom, 4000 hot meals, 2 goats, 1 alpaca and 3 animal care kits to a Third World country? That was great, but when tax time came [...]

The Linux Foundation is hosting a contest to create an "I'm Linux" commercial. Grand prize: a trip to Tokyo! Deadline is March 15, 2009. From the announcement: If you've been alive and aware of mass media over the last twelve months, you've probably seen television commercials from Apple and Microsoft touting their operating system. From Apple's ubiquitous [...]