Xara X Pro and Blender good match !

[handrawn]

I like blender Geo, 'course 3d modler I'm not, but I play.
I found the interface very difficult at first, but it grew on me - once it clicks its actually quite straight forward and comprehensive, if a tad unforgiving of user error [!].
Really had to wade through the tutorials and download a lot of the manual.

[gidgit]

I love the shapes... look forward to viewing more of this project

[danifou]

update on the animation : first 12 seconds : 45 Mb in AVI format...
Red curtains, spotlights moves around, the curtains opens and the spotlights merge on the Ontario Province (outline).

To be rendered :
A tree grows from the floor in front of the province outline. Participating cities (dots) with their names appears on the outline of the province and fly through the branches of the tree and out of the scene (that's the theme of the games... through the branches). Leaves grows at each passage of the cities and finally the francophone symbol (Fleur de Lys and the Trillium) with the faces appears with the welcoming to the games...

Since renderring the animation in AVI format is a long process with my computer, I decided to render3-4 seconds (about 100 frames)of film at one time. I then use Premiere Pro to assemble the clips.
Tried to upload a zip preview but the upload failed (~4.5Mb file)....

GeoBen, don't despair, Blender's UI is getting overhaul with the 2.50 version schedule for next October/November.

Dan