An interview with Steven DeBenedictis of SolidWorks Corporation on their Cosmic Blobs software for 3D creation and computer animation for kids. Well known for their high-end software, Cosmic Blobs was designed for kids to learn the world of 3D. Affordable and rich with creative ideas and potential, Cosmic Blobs has ganered a slew of richly deserved awards. If you are looking for kid-friendly software, with an entirely new approach to creative exploration, then listen to this interview! Cosmic Blobs was recently updated and is now Universal Binary to run at native speeds on Intel Macs. Recorded at the Siggraph/ACM Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, in August 2006 by Harris Fogel. Posted 10/4/2006, revised 6/26/2007 (7:52)

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Photographs by Harris Fogel 2006