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Posted on 12-03-2008
Filed Under (Blender Institute, Random Fluff, Production) by andy

bitour.jpgRecently I realized that we never really made a complete Blender Institute tour after this project started. Sure, there was Ton’s first round trip waaaay back, but we needed something new, shiny and classy like this to show you how great this place actually is! Luckily Nathan, our master of rigging, animating and hugging, agreed to improvise a very sincere and pertinent guided VIP tour through the marvels of our beloved work- and living- space.

Welcome to the Blender Institute!

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JiriH on 12 March, 2008 at 10:36 pm

Really funny. Happy people make happy product :-))) This made my day (although it is already evening. Nathan is really cool guy!!!


voOdKa on 12 March, 2008 at 10:41 pm

xD Merci pour la visite


boiteu on 12 March, 2008 at 10:44 pm

Really funny!!!
Thank you nathan!!


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Fredrik on 12 March, 2008 at 11:06 pm

Hilarious! :’)


Nathan on 12 March, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Hey hey! Don’t forget Andy, who masterfully filmed and edited this!


shirokoff on 12 March, 2008 at 11:36 pm

i’m sooo happy i’ve watched that video =)


dusty on 12 March, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Hehehe, very funny! Well done Nathan and Andy.


devspoon on 12 March, 2008 at 11:53 pm

oh :D this is amazing :D


rogper on 13 March, 2008 at 12:01 am

My best Wednesday night… Ever :D
Who cares about that thing called PIXAR, I didn’t see there a Italian expresso machine :P
Excelente performance Nathan and excelente work Andy!


Vincent on 13 March, 2008 at 12:36 am

This really is extremely funny :)

“Also known as eppell-juice… -sep”

Lovely piece of geek humour, especially the ending was great, and the super-spontaneous laughter when reading the book.

Damn, I laughed out loud from behind my computer, that doesn’t happen often :)


SoulVector on 13 March, 2008 at 12:48 am

Hehe :) Funny stuff.. Happy is happyness :)


Sander Wit on 13 March, 2008 at 12:57 am

Thanks you guys, it really makes lot a happier and realistic impression than our first tour through your wonderful Blender Institute :)

And I more and more realize of the foolishness I have committed when I visited the institute: not hugging Nathan… Sacha tried to warn me but I did not listen. I’m truly sorry Nathan.

All the love and happiness is hereby wished from me to you.

Sander :)

PS best luck with all the work done on this project!


Sander Wit on 13 March, 2008 at 1:06 am

Geez Sacha, I just notice you haven’t moved one inch since my last visit! Are you sure they are letting you out of that building now and than?

Net nog operatie gehad aan keel, niets wilds, maar wel een verliefdheid opgelopen dat heeft geresulteerd in een relatie! Houd dus vol, er is hoop!

Het beste ermee!


Sago on 13 March, 2008 at 1:15 am

That’s great news, Sander!

And thanks for sharing this with the entire world!!


BlendRoid on 13 March, 2008 at 2:17 am

That was so funny!

“Also known as ap-pel-juice…sep… in Dutch!” Genious. :) I also really cracked up about… everything else.

You guys are my heroes. If I ever get to work there, I hope I work with the spiritual successors of the Peach team! (you’ll all be working at PIXAR by then, I’m sure)


JoOngle on 13 March, 2008 at 2:35 am

Waiter…

“I´ll have what he´s having”


Cristo on 13 March, 2008 at 5:57 am

Hehe….very good, Nathan.
I like the “Shut the F*** Up” room…very funny…


madman on 13 March, 2008 at 6:54 am

Nathan looks like the Big Buck Bunny.

It’s a shame… you forgot to present the blender of the kitchen.


lumpycow on 13 March, 2008 at 9:14 am

This made me happy… now time for bed…


oxben on 13 March, 2008 at 10:33 am

Absolutely fabulous!

I’m wondering if Nathan is always so full of energy. It should be exhausting to work with him. :)

Nathan, what kind of vitamins do you eat at breakfast? :)


vagelis on 13 March, 2008 at 11:22 am

“This reminds us of how much we suck”
Haha


Gianmichele on 13 March, 2008 at 11:25 am

eheh…well at Pixar there are a lot of italian cookers :P


Anthoni_C on 13 March, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Nathan might as well work for Blender.


Feel on 13 March, 2008 at 2:23 pm

good to see hard-workers ….. in blender Institute XD


cd38 on 13 March, 2008 at 3:53 pm

What a riot! I’m glad at least one of the team is having fun, or losing his mind.


Christiaan "AniCator" Bakker on 13 March, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Who wants a .GIF of Nathan?
http://mirror.anicator.com/nathan_funny.gif


Fury_jin on 13 March, 2008 at 4:29 pm

The Peach team had found the true happiness answer.

Tomorrow i’ll try to hug a big buck bunny.

Maybe the first step be happy!

Thx all the peach team!


Pitel on 13 March, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Drugs are wrong, m’kay. :D


pKrime on 13 March, 2008 at 7:20 pm

Forget BBB: I want to see “Nathan, the Movie”!


Christiaan "AniCator" Bakker on 13 March, 2008 at 8:23 pm

Nathan! I hope I’ll meet you again, the next Blender Conference. You are inspiring.


Roemer on 13 March, 2008 at 8:33 pm

I am so HAPPY to see you Nathan. I feel even over here the happiness.

Happy greetings from The happy Hague
Roemer and happy mother


Christiaan "AniCator" Bakker on 13 March, 2008 at 9:26 pm

Nathan I looooove you!!


Mark Keller on 13 March, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Wow, that was great. I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard all week!

And AniCator - that GIF is great! Loops seamlessly!

Man, I love you guys. :-)


static float on 14 March, 2008 at 4:57 am

lol, that was hilarious. Great job, Nathan, Andy….. Keep up the good work! :D


Dread Knight on 14 March, 2008 at 10:10 am

What are you smoking? xD


Marco on 14 March, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Hilarious! I want a movie with Nathan as the main actor star! :D


Clint on 14 March, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Hilarious — thanks Nathan et all!


Pablo Lizardo on 14 March, 2008 at 7:25 pm

:D jejejej! really fun tour! thanks nathan!!!


ColeZero on 14 March, 2008 at 7:29 pm

hahaha that was hilarious…thank you for this, both of you.
You make me smile. You brought the sun on a cloudy day.


steffen on 14 March, 2008 at 8:28 pm

is there something in the water that keeps Nathan so happy :D


Tobi on 14 March, 2008 at 8:30 pm

Can we purchase those body parts
from the e-shop?
I would love to own a little piece
of a very very happy person!


Bmud on 14 March, 2008 at 9:17 pm

HEY! I read those books too. I laughed soooo hard at siggraph proceedings 2003. You guys should check out “Flight”, and yeah I’m actually not kidding about that.


Dave on 14 March, 2008 at 9:57 pm

haha. the shut the #^@* up room. priceless.


jaysan on 14 March, 2008 at 10:35 pm

hello
congratulations for this extra realistic documentary!!
this is soooo real :D
it’s really a mine of inspiration


David on 15 March, 2008 at 3:18 am

Funny!!!
Hey, the Peach project is very good… great work…


Tour pelo Blender Institute « Blender Total on 15 March, 2008 at 4:24 am

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Trawler on 15 March, 2008 at 4:32 am

“Oppression and happiness: not necessarily mutually exclusive.”

‘Bout peed in my pants on that one. Dear God, that’s funny!!


Omar Modesto on 15 March, 2008 at 4:58 am

That was a very fun tour. I’m happy that the people at the Blender Institute are kept happy so that the happy work they do gives happy results to keep the viewers happy.

…so, do they, uh…really lock people inside the e-Shop room for days?! Can’t be too fun to be in there with the boxed body parts ;P

Keep up the great work, guys.


Napalm on 15 March, 2008 at 7:07 am

YOUR ENTHUSIASM MAKES KITTY SCARED!!!


Happy Boy on 15 March, 2008 at 8:27 am

That’s good stuff.


Sam Allen on 15 March, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Ha! That made my day. Thank you Nathan, Andy and the Blender team! I can’t say any more than that.

Really.

Except _maybe_ these clips would be an excellent addition as “Bonus Features” for the DVD.


Superkoop on 15 March, 2008 at 10:35 pm

So was Nathan one of those locked in the e-shop?
I’d probably be kinda strange after being locked up in a room with dead bodies too!


Jairo Molina on 16 March, 2008 at 6:00 am

LOL, so you keep woman around for… happiness :) Thanks for visiting the Institute Andy. Obrigado!


Avances de Peach - Cortometraje de animaci on 16 March, 2008 at 3:07 pm

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Ian on 17 March, 2008 at 7:05 am

Nathan has just become my favorite person on the planet.


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Nathan on 17 March, 2008 at 12:46 pm

OMG! I’m Ian’s favorite person on the planet! @_@
The guy who made SBFP!!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!
I love you Ian!


Avances de Peach - Cortometraje de animaci on 17 March, 2008 at 10:36 pm

[…] de animaci


Ian on 18 March, 2008 at 11:50 am

You saw SBFP!? That totally makes my day!

I love you too, Nathan! Yay!


Alexander Ewering on 18 March, 2008 at 2:22 pm

Heh… after watching this video, I think you can stop working altogether because I seriously doubt that Big Buck Bunny can get any better than this ;)


Anthoni_C on 18 March, 2008 at 11:00 pm

Yall should keep a marijuana plant in the kitchen and be like “It especially keeps us happy.” :P


Jamil on 19 March, 2008 at 3:49 am

Hi:
I am very happy to see such a nice production coming out of such a small yet creative group. I would love it if you take a look at my senior thesis and help with any feed back.
Best of luck.
http://webspace.ringling.edu/~jlahham/access/jlahham.mov


edi on 19 March, 2008 at 12:07 pm

thx for the intro! maybe you should go into sales and marketing ;-)


lohborn on 19 March, 2008 at 7:46 pm

I showed my friend and his first words were, “Oh, is that the trailer for the new pixar movie?”


lohborn on 19 March, 2008 at 7:47 pm

^meant to go on the trailer post


Austin on 20 March, 2008 at 7:52 am

Lawwwwwwwwwwwwl Nathan, what’s up man. I thought you were up there working, not ****ing around!


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Some dude on 2 April, 2008 at 4:50 am

Ha ha, hee hee and ho ho! Awesome movie. Could be that my senses are dull and that I overlooked something, but the mention to the blade of grass made me (coincidentally) think of Bethesda. Ahh, those lovable idiots are about to butcher the Fallout series by meddling with it’s already-epic format. But, as we all know, blades of grass are VERY important.

Why not whip up a game? Let’s call it Annihilation. The gameplay will horribly suck and will be bearable for a maximum of a week, but we’ll be sure to stuff it so full of eye candy that people will be too dazzled to care. No two blades of grass shall be the same!

Bitching aside :) Great movie. Happy workers make happy products, ha ha!


sxpert on 5 April, 2008 at 8:25 am

hilarious presentation !


dirkus on 5 April, 2008 at 6:17 pm

LoL that was quality … i now feel happy inside


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