[Bf-committers] Seminar on Blender

[Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim]

Another thing, I forgot to mention that the event will not be charged to the
participant, that it is an open seminar.

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim <
faizol.blender at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Roger, the basic part of the travelling (airfare, hotel and expenses) will
> be covered by the organizer. As per presentation fee, I need to get some
> input (figure, terms and conditions, etc) from the respective speakers and
> relay it to the organizer. Suggestions are welcome. Anyone interested may
> email it directly to me.
>
> Charles, that's an excellent idea. One thing for sure is the video won't be
> as costly as Autodesk's Master series. I'll try to get in touch with Blender
> Institute and see if they have some other ideas on this.
>
> Another note on pipeline features that I totally forgot, production
> collaboration tool/pipeline. Blender's collaboration tool is top notch and
> can rival expensive proprietary system but only blender user who are heavily
> involved in production environment who know about it.
>
> Keep it coming guys.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Faizol Abd. Halim
> Malaysia
>
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Charles Wardlaw <
> cwardlaw at marchentertainment.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Something that Autodesk always does is they record these seminars and sell
>> disks with the video, resource files, and a PDF of notes and slides from the
>> presentations.
>>
>> I don't know that this would help you, but if you could get organizers to
>> agree to let you record the presentations and then afterwards you could sell
>> the DVDs, splitting profit with the organizers, you could recoup some of the
>> cost of the stipends you'd need to pay out to get people to Malaysia.  Also
>> it'd benefit the community at large as there are so few master classes on
>> Blender, and some of the most useful knowledge on the software is esoteric.
>>
>> Although, I woudln't charge what Autodesk does.  Some of their DVDs have
>> had notoriously little usable information and cost upwards of $80 USD.
>> ~ C
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2010-05-07, at 2:55 AM, Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim wrote:
>>
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> >  I'm in the middle of preparing a paperwork to organize a seminar on
>> > Content Creation in Malaysia. I've suggested to the organizer to have a
>> > technical presentation using Blender tools, much like Autodesk's
>> > Master/expert series. The organizer so far seems to be interested in the
>> > idea. I might have a chance to invite several speakers from Blender
>> > community to talk in-depth about Blender's technology in production
>> > environment. The categories covered can be in any of the creative
>> content's
>> > main pipelines (modeling, rigging, rendering, scripting,
>> > effects/particles/simulations). I think this would be a good exposure
>> about
>> > Blender's real capabilities to the participants (which will be attended
>> by
>> > most of the local productions in Malaysia).
>> >
>> > Truly appreciate it if anyone can give me a feedback on this, or perhaps
>> > some suggestions if there's anyone that I should contact to move this
>> idea
>> > forward?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Best Regards,
>> > Faizol Abd. Halim
>> > Malaysia
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