I got speechless when I saw the name and mascot for this pizza place. I had to take a picture and show it here:

Cartoon Brew often publishes some bizarre adaptations of cartoons to sell food, and also when someone spots shameless copies of well known characters. This one fits both cases.

Besides the awful Tinkerbell copy (a Google images search shows the image below on the first page), the name raises the bar of the awfulness: it is a Portuguese pun that means literally "Fairy Sá's Pizza", but sounds like "Naughty Pizza". Man... I don't want to know the taste of that pizza... =P

Amazing:

Found it on Cartoon Brew.

One thing to remember: when using a date for the title of an article, it becomes very clear how long I take to update my blog. :P

Well... I think it's better late than never to share some cool things as I promised on my last post:

• I'll start with this amazing casemod:
  
  (Thanks Suryara for the tip);
  
  
• A funny animation, recommended by Renato from NitrocorpZ:
  
  Zapping from Aritz Aizpurua on Vimeo.
  
  
• Some very cool Blender tips by Kernon Dillon: preview and render optimizations, "painting" instanced objects and  textured lights;
  
  
• And its also cool to remember that admissions for this year's Gobelins Summer School are open!

And that's all for today... :)

After all that April Fools' noise I can guarantee you that I will write only true news here until March 31^st, 2010. ;)

Among the true things that will happen the next days, I'll be tomorrow at Senac Faculty here in Goiânia talking about Blender to Graphic Design students. It's an event about open source software for designers, and it's gonna be pretty cool. :)

There will be also a Blender workshop on April 25th, at FLISOL (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalação de Software Livre), as I did in the latest three years. :)

And soon there will be the release of a new Computer Arts Brasil edition the first issue of Brazilian 3D World magazine. It will feature a Blender tutorial I wrote on the fluid simulator, talking about the details to make the image below:

And that's it for today. Soon I'll share some cool links I found these days.

[update] Just to make it clear, guys, this is an April Fool's Day joke. Click on the link at the end of this article, which explains a lot. I don't want to cause trouble to anyone: just thought it would be pretty straightforward to see an absurd news like this on April 1st. Below is the text, just for historical reasons. [/update]

After some bad financial results related to current world crisis and an "offensive" offer by Autodesk, the German company Maxon - responsible for 3D applications such as Cinema 4D and BodyPaint 3D - has made a shocking announcement to the CG market: it will open its products' source code and join forces with Blender Foundation. Paul Babb - Maxon's CEO - explained that this decision is based on deep market research and will change the face of the CG community.

"After Autodesk bought Softimage we faced a situation where it was impossible to compete with a company which controls about 70% of the CG market", said Babb. "We've following closely the development and business model of Blender Foundation and found it to be the only viable alternative to stay alive and fresh", concluded the CEO in the press conference held at Maxon headquarters in Friedrichsdorf, Germany.

According to Babb, Autodesk had recently made an "offensive" offer to buy Maxon and its products: "we are proud of always bringing fresh and innovative ideas with our products, and it would be sad if they had the same end of Maya or XSI after their companies got acquired by Autodesk". Babb and Blender Foundation's chairman, Ton Roosendaal, signed the document that defines the terms of the merger which will, ultimately, give shape to a company with a new name. "We will rely in the community even in the stage of choosing a new name", stated Roosendaal.

"It's not about a game of buying and selling companies, it's about a rich exchange of knowledge that will give a new shape to the way people think of 3D software", said Roosendaal. He also spoke about how the partnership aims to bring a new program that will join the best features of each application: "Currently, Blender and Cinema 4D have each its own set of 'state of the art' features that will be joined to bring users the most advanced 3D application ever conceived", said Roosendaal without hiding his excitement. The goal is to make "the ultimate and most powerful" 3D application to become the industry standard in 3 years.

The new business model will rely in paid costumer support and documentation, along with the profits from new community-based movies as made popular by Blender Foundation.

"Open source is not the future of CG anymore. It's already the present", concluded Paul Babb.

Read more about this merger.