New team member: Pablo Vazquez
on March 8th, 2010, by TonFreshly arrived in the Netherlands: Pablo “venomGFX” Vazquez will be added to the team responsible for shading / lighting / render & compositing. Great to have this ex-Apricoter over again!
Also queued up: Dolf “macouno” Veenvliet will start here in 2 weeks, to help the render team as well. And, last but not least, William Reynish – ex BBB – will be helping animating here the last three months! Starts in April…
This week we also have David Revoy over to help (paint overs!), he’ll be here for a week each month now.
That puts this project on over double the full-time artists as previously! We need it though, ambitions are high… and if we want a film by the end of june we better hurry!
Oh eh, where are the renders? Damn Soenke and Ben are hiding it somewhere… 😉
Laters,
-Ton-
March 9th, 2010 at 12:39 am
Great news Ton!
Welcome on board Pablo, Dolf and William. This becomes a large group. It’s really good, you made up the story and style already, so that the “new guys” have a style sheet and a clear story to follow.
Wish you a lot of wisdom Ton, to handle such a big group of “creative monkeys” 🙂
Be aware of the Nathusthanian monkey! I heard this monkey can really get very dangerous and scary 😉
Have fun and rock the world
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2010: The year of Durian
March 9th, 2010 at 3:59 am
@ Ethan: I may be a bit blunt, but you are not only hijacking a thread, you are also making a rather silly request. The reason three hundred blender users participated in the sprint is cause are really enjoying the progress Durian is making and know it’ll be a high quality movie, as well as widely distributed…unlike your project. Good luck on your movie! …and good luck trying to find people who will do your work for free.
Aside from that little speech – I think it’s awesome Pablo is joining! Have fun, and leave the eyes at normal sizes!
March 9th, 2010 at 6:28 am
felicidades pablito 🙂
March 9th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Great Pablo!!!
Finally you had everything!
Christmas at home, some days in switzerland and now:
D U R I A N !!!
happy for you and happy for the project.
Dream Team
March 9th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
woooooooow *wide eyes, wide open
Thanks everyone! I’m *so* happy for such a warm welcome! 😀
As warm as the one I had here, yesterday I had a great first day, it feels very different from Yo Frankie!, but nicely different! 🙂
First impression: the project is *HUGE!*, I wouldn’t be able to compare with previous Open Projects, the amount and complexity of the work here is really what 2.5 needs to have it polished.
Nothing else to say than: “Expect Awesomeness” :3
March 9th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Ah Ahh! Pablo, nice to hear that from you (not that we doubt it… ;))!!!!!
A very very welcome to you Pablo, to Dolf, to William, and a very very welcome back to David!!! It’s really great to know you’ll be at the Blender institute for an entire week per month… go paint-over!!!
And last but not least, I’d want to HUGELY THANK YOU BRECHT! for your extraordinary work, latest Indirect lighting and micropoly-displacement made my day:
http://d.imagehost.org/0668/raytrace_irrad_cache2.png
March 9th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Pablo in gramsterdam. Woot! :] I love blender and all that is open source. Best of luck to everyone taking part in this project.
March 9th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Hope you will do well
You deserve all the best !
Especially due to your skills and artworks
Now it’s getting serious at the Blender institute !
Amsterdam is such a nice place to be too.
Rendering is such a difficult thing, taking a lifetime to master
Understanding light, interactions with the environment and so on…
Light is your tool, and nothing is more elusive than photons
Eh, I really hope to hear about you very soon 🙂
Saludo amigo !
March 10th, 2010 at 2:19 am
Two ex members of previous Open Movie projects — I was dead happy. And then David Revoy?!? Back in the team? This is insanely cool! You guys make me cry! What a great team you have there!
March 10th, 2010 at 6:29 am
YEAHHHH!!! venomgfx in durian!!! (i’m pretending to look surprised XD) !!
Congratulations tocayoo!! and I am looking forward to seeing your work on this project!!
March 10th, 2010 at 8:46 am
Ea! :'( Que copado! Dale sin asco!
March 10th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Congrats Venom! you are great. Hope you enjoy this new adventure. take care with purples ok? joking 😛 . Have a nice day.
for the other side I can help if you need help on painting. bye
March 31st, 2010 at 2:03 am
wow! it’s time for realistic show. I know you will succed easily good luck
February 10th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
wow lots of impersonation here, now using blenderguy2008 to say all the crap you can handle within lines, ha ha ha