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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi <FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Igor</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have a group of about 20 people learning Blender
and have plans to expand with other groups in other Cities around the world. Do
you think it can work. I believe that it can with the right training material.
We're planning to do Training Video's and make it available on the net at a
small fee to cover production costs and postage. Volumes is the name of the
game. It will be great if we can partner in a way. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have two guy's that I'm using as specialists that
is using Blender in their businesses. see <A
href="http://www.dnapixels.com">www.dnapixels.com</A> and <A
href="http://www.stinkmedia.co.za">www.stinkmedia.co.za</A>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards Willem</DIV></FONT>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=krizanovskij@siol.net href="mailto:krizanovskij@siol.net">Igor
Križanovskij</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bf-education@blender.org
href="mailto:bf-education@blender.org">bf-education@blender.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:21
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bf-education] Trainer
Certification Entry</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>Oh, thank you guys! I didn't expect so quick response from
such an excellency!<BR><BR>Cris, <BR><BR>I hope that you don't expect I.
Assimov or A. C. Clark writing style in my WikiActionBook! :)<BR>Hmm, but
maybe will be this conversation even more interesting than those semi-static
text over there!<BR><BR>I can see that you are very interested in global
education, heh and I guess also smart enough that you can see in Blender
excellent tool and community for this task, well, me too (pstt, we are not
alone! :).<BR><BR>Bright future of Blender! Yes, that's a nice topic! That's
why I also started ~one year ago AIML bot with a Blender 'AI' Documentation
idea. Still waiting on Official English FAQ to be completed (we must admit
that this isn't easy task for so fast expanding software)...<BR><BR>Anyway, I
like this AI Documentation Bot idea and some conversations with users was very
amusing indeed, especially because poor new users usually expect help from the
bot and not questions! :) (sorry guys, but your conversations really help me
for improving it, I really hope that will be soon useful & thanks for all
answers, many are Great, even if I don't understand all of your languages!
:).<BR><BR>Cris, you know, I didn't care much about such (too simple) AI, my
first bot 'Greta' was just a toy at the beginning, but when I start to follow
conversation logs where was one boy interested almost a year for one girl -
real person, but who exist for him only in bot's brain (from her previous
conversations with it), well from then I'm not so sure that is 'too simple'!
Hmm, is human brain so simple or is AIML more complex than it
looks?!<BR><BR>Here is the link (if you didn't see it yet, there was many
users with a name Cris!)<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://zen.mine.nu/suzanne">http://zen.mine.nu/suzanne</A><BR><BR>And
here is the link of ActionBook:<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Blender_3D:_ActionBook">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Blender_3D:_ActionBook</A><BR><BR>Thanks
for your help in advance!<BR><BR><BR><BR>Hey Willem, <BR><BR>you have really
great artists group on your site! Such group could be good for a visual
quality check on BlenderWiki! I believe that can such group raise visual
quality for all future entries!<BR><BR>But something I don't understand, is
this group physically together or is also on-line, like this marvelous
team?<BR><BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.animationmentor.com">http://www.animationmentor.com</A><BR><BR><BR>
Igor<BR><BR><BR><BR><SMALL>drpoo wrote:</SMALL><BR><PRE>Igor, I would help out with proofreading. Just let me know.
-Chris
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid20070418100014.B9B451C08A8@bserve2.blender.org
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Willem Verwey wrote:
Hi Igor.
Your mail post were very interesting.
I'm Willem from the 3D Animation Network.
I hear what you say about being together. And it really helps. That is why
I've started the 3D Animation Network. And Yes I also believe that there is
not many people that know's blenter inside out. The idea of the 3DAN is to
group Blender fanatics together in a inviroment where we can all learn
togethet, faster. It will be great if you can give us advice on how to
approce this quest. We're also soon going to start to film Blender training
material that will be avalible on our website soon. We know that we still
have a way to go but are willing to walk the walk. It will be great if you
can give us advice on the looks and feel on our website.
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.3danimationnetwork.com">www.3danimationnetwork.com</A>
What is the posibelity of starting a group for the 3DAN there. Together we
stronger. If we can train the people and let the industry know the is more
arrowned than 3DS Max and othe expensive software, like Blender. If we can
start working groups arrowned the world and make proper training material
eg. Video's, Books, Teotorials - we will win the battle and create a lot of
oppertunaties for a lot of our users.
Tell me what you think about this.
Willem Verwey
For 3D Animation Network
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:willem@3danimationnetwork.com">willem@3danimationnetwork.com</A>
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