The Leeds Metropolitan University awarded Ton Roosendaal an Honorary Doctorate in Technology, july 15 2009. This as recognition for "founding the open source Blender project and pioneering new models for creating open content animation films and games."
The independent CG website http://www.cgenie.com has published a user survey giving an interesting view on the 3D software market and user's perceptions. With over 2000 respondents the outcome cannot be ignored; Blender is the new rising star!
The theme of this year's Berlinale Keynotes was about Film 2.0, or "The Age of Collaboration".
Five members of the digital media avant-garde - including top producers from the international games industry, Wikinomics pioneers and Open Movie directors - discussed some of the most challenging questions facing the film industry.
Over 350 media professionals attended the event in the Kaisersaal at Potsdamer Platz, introduced by Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.
Berlinale 2008 Keynotes website
February 28th 2008 SlashCAM - Digital Video Online
Interview with Ton Roosendaal uber Die Zukunft von Blender in Videobereich
in German
(Copy: SlashCAM)
December 4th 2007, nu.nl
Het Nederlandse Blender brengt begin 2008 's werelds eerste 'open source' game op het net. Iedereen met verstand van zaken kan met vrije software en zonder licenties meewerken aan het online ontwikkelen van dit 3D-spel. Blender creëerde eerder het eerste open source 3D-filmproject waaraan vanuit de hele wereld massaal werd bijgedragen. (Bron nu.nl)
Click on the image to read the complete article in Dutch.
November 2007, Control nr1
Blenders open source-game
Six people, six months and only open source-software. Will this be the formule for a successful game? This we will find out very soon. The software is Blender and Crystal Space. And the team: will be announced soon.
Also visit the digital version of Control.
www.control-online.nl
Or visit the website of NLGD (Dutch games days)
www.nlgd.nl/nlgd2007/
Click on the image to read the complete article.
July 2006
A milestone for Blender publicity: Blender features heavily in issue 80 of the international magazine for 3D artists, themed around open source graphics software.
Since Blender became open source, a lot of magazines have written about Blender. We're still looking for someone to update this section with recent news.
A few examples of recent publications:
March 2004: 3D Artisan, Korea
February 2004. Creative Live, Germany
January 2004: PC Graphic & Video, Germany
January 2004: PC Professionale, Italy
January 2004: Linux Magazin, Germany
January 2004, AD&CG magazine, Japan
December 2003, CG Magazine of China
November 2003: .Net, France
October 2003: Benelux Windows Magazine
Animation Magazine - February 2002
Curious about the potential of 3D wireless animation? Check out this proof of concept from Not a Number (NaN) and its 3D creation suite, Blender Creator, running on a Compaq iPAQ PDA.
Read the article here.
Also published in Pocket Gamer (www.pocketgamer.org),
Pocket PC Minds (www.pocketpcminds.com),
Pocket PC Life (www.pocketpclife.co.uk),
Dave's Compaq iPaq (www.davescompaqipaq.com),
PDA France (www.pdafrance.com),
Wired Guy (www.wiredguy.com),
Pocket Now (news.pocketnow.com) and
IPaq Soft. (www.ipaqsoft.net)
MacCentral.com - December 2001
Blender comes to Mac OS X
News also published among others in Inside MacGames, InsideCG, MacWorld UK, iDevGames.com and Gamasutra.
Computer Arts - UK - November 2001
Blender Publisher. Not a Number has launched a new addition to the Blender suite of budget 3D tools that cover 3D content, playback and delivery. New product Blender Publisher can be used to produce 3D to be published across the Web and CD-ROM.
Also published in Linux 3D Graphics Programming, iTgraphics, Entwickler.com