I agree with james of montreal - seeking artists for a project is a bit outside what i expect for a blender education forum, unless the project is specifically an education tool. But i'm also new to this site and don't know the established forum etiquitte.<br>
<br>I would be interested in building blender education resources collaboratively.<br>Let me give you an example. I studied physics and specialized in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Books were fine, but when i came across the <a href="http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/">Basics of NMR</a> site learning became suddenly much easier, mostly because of all the embedded (java?) animations that accompany the text. You don't have to be a physicist to appreciate the amazing leap forward animations can give to technical documentation (in the link, skip to spin physics and click on any of the red-green arrow buttons for an example). Now, imagine what could be done with Blender. <br>
<br>One could turn blender in on itself and develop a similar tutorial style to teach blender, however, I've found that the GUI and features are too unstable at the moment, changing significantly with each .n release, to develop good documentation. How many times have i found a youtube or <a href="http://blender.org">blender.org</a> tutorial on exactly the topic i want only to discover that it was made with an only-slightly-older version of blender thatt doesn't work at all with my release.<br>
<br>So anyhoo, if anyone has a neat collaborative education project in mind, give a hollar. If not, but you'd like to joing a group where collaboration and mentoring is a core component of the work get in touch with me <a href="mailto:solarmobiletrailers@gmail.com">solarmobiletrailers@gmail.com</a><br>
<br>cheers,<br>kesten<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bf-education-request@blender.org">bf-education-request@blender.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Asking myself questions. I joined this group because the focus was Blender 3D education matters and promotion of Blender at an educational level, As a Blender Instructor ( not yet certified with BF ), Am I wrong? Is this thread about BF Education or soliciting free labor. To quote from the body of text "Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity and time to teach people for this project." Could I suggest you make the time?<br>
Well I do not have time to work for free either. Is it wrong to expect that people ( Blender Artists ) who have worked hard to learn the skills that are being sought here would at some point earn money for said skill?<br>
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I suggest a BF free labor pool user group. Better yet craigslist.<br>
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Would it be possible to keep on track here a bit?<br>
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James Halliwell<br>
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> Subject: Bf-education Digest, Vol 70, Issue 5<br>
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> From: Omid Momenzadeh <<a href="mailto:omid.smartgu@gmail.com">omid.smartgu@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Looking for Blender Artists<br>
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> Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity and time to teach people<br>
> for this project. I have started teaching Blender to newbies, but it<br>
> takes time to get them in work.<br>
> You know we have finished the preproduction of the project, and you<br>
> can have a look at our timeline here<br>
> :<a href="http://www.tinabpixel.com/images/stories/timeline.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tinabpixel.com/images/stories/timeline.jpg</a><br>
> We had enough people using Maya, but we suddenly lost most of them by<br>
> accident. So I thought it's the best time to find people using Blender<br>
> and change the team's software, as others now agree on doing so.<br>
> Working online is a bit difficult, but not that much. But we have the<br>
> experience and we know how to work online so no problem occurs.<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Omid<br>
><br>
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> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:57:08 +1000<br>
> From: Jamie Le Rossignol <<a href="mailto:jlerossignol@gmail.com">jlerossignol@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Looking for Blender Artists<br>
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> Doesn't Blender have Maya presets?<br>
> How close to Maya are they? It maybe that they are close enough to<br>
> transition these people over to Blender.<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> Jamie<br>
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> On 24 August 2011 20:37, Omid Momenzadeh <<a href="mailto:omid.smartgu@gmail.com">omid.smartgu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity and time to teach people<br>
> > for this project. I have started teaching Blender to newbies, but it<br>
> > takes time to get them in work.<br>
> > You know we have finished the preproduction of the project, and you<br>
> > can have a look at our timeline here<br>
> > :<a href="http://www.tinabpixel.com/images/stories/timeline.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tinabpixel.com/images/stories/timeline.jpg</a><br>
> > We had enough people using Maya, but we suddenly lost most of them by<br>
> > accident. So I thought it's the best time to find people using Blender<br>
> > and change the team's software, as others now agree on doing so.<br>
> > Working online is a bit difficult, but not that much. But we have the<br>
> > experience and we know how to work online so no problem occurs.<br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > Omid<br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > Bf-education mailing list<br>
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> On 08/25/2011 08:27 AM, Jamie Le Rossignol wrote:<br>
> > Doesn't Blender have Maya presets?<br>
> > How close to Maya are they? It maybe that they are close enough to<br>
> > transition these people over to Blender.<br>
> ><br>
> > Cheers,<br>
> > Jamie<br>
> ><br>
> > On 24 August 2011 20:37, Omid Momenzadeh <<a href="mailto:omid.smartgu@gmail.com">omid.smartgu@gmail.com</a><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:omid.smartgu@gmail.com">omid.smartgu@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity and time to teach people<br>
> > for this project. I have started teaching Blender to newbies, but it<br>
> > takes time to get them in work.<br>
> > You know we have finished the preproduction of the project, and you<br>
> > can have a look at our timeline here<br>
> > :<a href="http://www.tinabpixel.com/images/stories/timeline.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tinabpixel.com/images/stories/timeline.jpg</a><br>
> > We had enough people using Maya, but we suddenly lost most of them by<br>
> > accident. So I thought it's the best time to find people using Blender<br>
> > and change the team's software, as others now agree on doing so.<br>
> > Working online is a bit difficult, but not that much. But we have the<br>
> > experience and we know how to work online so no problem occurs.<br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > Omid<br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > Bf-education mailing list<br>
> > <a href="mailto:Bf-education@blender.org">Bf-education@blender.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Bf-education@blender.org">Bf-education@blender.org</a>><br>
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> You know, just the navigation and selections are like Maya. Nothing More.<br>
> What we are mostly in need of now, are riggers and animators. We have<br>
> found modellers. If we find riggers and animators, then we will have<br>
> time to find people for rendering, cloth sim, and compositing.(Someone<br>
> has promised for the compositing stuff, so we will only need a cloth<br>
> simulator and renderguy.)<br>
> Thanks,<br>
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