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“For the Japanese blender user community:
Hi, my name is Rogério Perdiz (don’t worry even I have trouble pronouncing my name sometimes hehe), I have 25 years old, I’m from Portugal and thanks to this amazing piece of software called Blender I was able to make the short animation Orion TEAR.

It was mainly Japanese animation that motivated me to try to become an animation filmmaker… even my drawing stile it’s allot based in my favorite artists (Tetsuya Nomura, Akira Toriyama, Makoto Shinkai among others), so I feel really happy and honored to know that Orion Tear has reached Japan. I’ve already seen allot of awesome Japanese blender works and that’s mainly because, although I still can’t read Japanese, I always keep an eye in the Blender.jp forum (google translate) ^_~

I think Orion Tear could be allot better, but at least I hope it is useful to show to everyone that One person alone can do, at least, the graphic part of a 10 minutes 3D short animation.
I never set foot in an art school, 8 years ago my drawing abilities were lousy and I’ve learned Blender by the trial and error method... basically pressing the buttons and see what they would do ^_^
The first scene I made for Orion Tear, in late 2006, it’s the first scene of the movie where Dark (the red eyes Angel) stands seat in a mountain. Well, that was because, at time, I didn’t know how to animate even a walk cycle; in early 2007 I’ve learned to make walk cycles, so I was able to make the next scene... and so on, until the Fight scene were I used all the knowledge that I’ve gathered in the previous scenes.

What I’m trying to say, especially for all the young artists and blender beginners, is that you don’t need nothing at all besides strong will and dedication to make something allot better then Orion Tear. Sure that you need to study and practice allot... but, I believe that ultimately you just need to start making something... what you need to learn you’ll learn wile making it.

I also would like to mention that for me Blender it's like the ultimate 3D animation movie making software. In the beginning (8 years ago) I was using it because it was for free, but today I’m using it because I really want to.

Hope you somehow like Orion Tear and hope to see more and more Japanese blender animation movies being made.

Many thanks,
Muito obrigado"