In this section we are trying to meet and to know this scattered universe of the 3D artists who for a reason or another decided to jump in to Blender, because was an “easy way” to step-in to 3D or they were already CGI masters and after they tried Blender, they made the “big swap” of their life.
We want to meet you and listen to your story. Give us a shout.
Our Dory realized an interview with Blender Italia, the Italian community of professionals and artists who have chosen to use Blender software for their 3d creations. Tell us about the Blender Italia project. How did it start? What is its mission? Blender Italia was born after the transition of Blender from commercial software to open-source software in 2002. In 2014, after several changes of responsibility, Alessandro Passariello becomes the director …
interview with the founder of 3D.Divas. A community to support and celebrate the amazing women in 3D I was invited by the 3D Blendered Magazine to answer a few questions about the 3D.Divas, an Instagram account that I created in October 2020. My main goal with this project is to empower and put the spotlight on some of the many incredible female 3D Artists around the globe. HOW IT STARTED? …
Will Anderson, a Scottish animator & filmmaker. Will has been making character-driven animated films. BAFTA-winning, in this article he talks about Blender, his recent fascination with it, and some things he is finding exciting about interfacing Blender with his work as an animator.
Jonathan Opgenhaffen is an experienced Art Director at Framestore, in London, with experience in design supervision (pre and post production), concept art, and visual effects. Skilled as both a creative supervisor, concept designer, and technical artist. Jonathan has worked for 15 years in companies such as Double Negative, Rainmaker London, Indestructible Production etc. Now, he works as Art Director at Framestore, well known for visual effects, creating extraordinary images and …
INTERVIEWS: Saiyam Marwah, an animation student at the National Institute of Design, in India: Saiyam: Hello! My name is Saiyam Marwah. I have always had an inclination to art and animation from a young age and have worked on both live action and animated short films. I am an animation student at the National Institute of Design, in India. I am currently working on my graduation film. I was always intimidated …
Sebastian Murrer, a Berlin based motion & 3D-designer, created a personal project using the blender osm-addon. In his freetime he experiments with Blender 3D and its endless opportunities to express creativity and simply having fun. With the osm-addon it is possible to import and edit open source streetmap-data. Building height and number of floors are used to create the final scene. By living in Berlin he chose, of course, berlin-map-data …
My name is Igor Kekeljevic Keki and I’m an assistant professor at the Engineering Animation Studies, at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Serbia, where I’m teaching future engineers of computer graphics how to use 3ds Max, After Effects, Photoshop, ZBrush and other commercial tools. But it’s interesting that I’m best known as a Blender addict who does digital characters. My start with Blender I used almost every 3d software …
My name is Maria Grazia Di Giovannantonio. I studied architecture at the Federico II University of Naples, in Italy, and then I attended the “MI-HERITAGE” (Multimedia Interactive Heritage) master at the Iuav in Venice. Thanks to this master I have approached the issues around the digitization of cultural heritage and its digital reconstruction. Later I had a very important experience at a film production company that also works in the …
The SkyFarm Company is a small team of creators developing original, cross-platform entertainment properties for children between the ages of 3 and 7. They are currently developing Duncan’s Flying Tugboat, a toyetic 3D-animated adventure-comedy television series for preschoolers made using Blender They launched this project in 2017—just two business partners Dave and Will at first—with zero resources and zero connections to the kids’ entertainment industry. In less than three years they’ve been …
Alex Treviño AENDOM is a personal project focused on making storytelling artwork and share the process for educational purposes. This project has created compelling images such as the Junk Shop, which is the most recognized illustration of the project, and was the Splash Screen of Blender 2.81 The new project is is the fifth of the series. And for this project was used a concept made by the comic book …