Off-topic.
May 24, 2008
This is usually a blog to document things happening to the avatar Olof Whitfield in Second Life ® but, as the 3D software Blender is no stranger to the content creators of this virtual world, I think, this post is not too far off-topic.
Today I got my DVD edition of the new, second open movie of the blender foundation called “Big Buck Bunny” or “BBB” for short. I pre-ordered that DVD to contribute to the project and to enable it because pre-ordering means financing the entire thing. They wrote “Everyone who orders and pays the DVD before october 1st will get a discount and his/her name credited in the movie credit roll!”. Of course, I immediately checked the movie, the DVD itself and the included data files (it is an open movie, that means you get all the scene files, the textures, etc. to rebuild the movie from the first to the last frame) and, guess what? I was not mentioned, although I ordered the DVD one day after the start of the pre-order campaign, that means several decades befor october 1st! Scandal! 
Ok, there will be a third open movie (knowledge taken from the first interviews after the premiere of BBB) and there will be again a pre-order by me and I will again hope to get mentioned in the credit roll. I will make it on that damn credit roll!
