Miika Hämäläinen aka MiikaH is the inventor and main developer of both Dynamic Paint in Blender and he also created most of the recent improvements to the smoke simulator. BlenderDiplom talked with him about his efforts on Dynamic Paint.

Fabio Russo is the developer behind the image layers in Blender Crowdfunding Campaign. He is also working on an advanced array modifier. BlenderDiplom talks with him about his experiences with crowdfunding.

Francesco Siddi is 3D artist and animator in the team for the upcoming open movie Tears of Steel. He is also in charge for the project's website. BlenderDiplom talked with him about the workflow they used and the openness of the project in general.

The Open Movie Project Mango is in full-blown production right now. At last year's Blender conference, the tracking team consisting of the two coders Keir Mierle and Sergey Sharybin and the matchmover Sebastian König met in person for the first time. BlenderDiplom was there, too!