Recently, Blendernation featured a story about Urangan State High School, in Queensland, Australia. Pupils at the school are creating a short film that includes live action and animation. The animation and 3D modelling is being done in Blender, the open source package that we use in school.
The project is around a year in to an eighteen month programme and has attracted around $50,000 funding. Several professional artists have become involved as tutors and mentors.
This superb 3D model of a dodgem car is just one of many renderings posted on the project’s site. It was apparently created by a fourteen year old fellow.