<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Tony, thank you for the killer reply. I am off to teach class this morning but I look forward to full digesting your post at lunch today.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Quickly most of my experience with cg certification systems has been with Softimage before AutoDesk, after AD it seem mostly about money. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">I hear now the guy running the certification is making it very legit which awesome, but it seems like a lot of red tape and costs just like when Alias did their training for Maya.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">When I got certified in 2002 through Softimage Avid this what
the certifications consist of(mind you they had proper training/education department):</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Learn all 27 tutorials and be able to demonstrate 2/3 of tutorials from </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">memorization then a timed 50 questions test, some multiple choice and some short answered and some long answer(open manual)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Day 1 and 2</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">The 2/3 tutorials of the 27 are chosen for you at random by the certification trainer. You are to present these tutorials to the instructor and the other attendees seeking certification. Also this was not just to <span id="misspell-3" class=""><span>recite</span></span> the tutorial. Every Softimage tutorial for the tutorial book had one over
all concept that was to be explained via whiteboard instruction, example: global illumination and final gathering. Then into the tutorial to demonstrate to use and how, what, why.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Day 3</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Written test, </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> 50 questions test, some multiple choice and some short answered and some long answer(open manual)</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Once completed pass or fail a nice lunch on Softimage.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Then with in a month you must submit 2 video tutorials of your own take on one of the 27 tutorials preferably something your are really <span id="misspell-6"
class=""><span>passionate</span></span> about or skilled with.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">The whole testing certification process costed 700 dollars a nice price at the time compared to Alias 10,000 dollar cost</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">I asked about the 700 dollars they said it was old from the softimage 3D days when they had to rent space and they used sgi, weird but whatever</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">A few years later they axed the proper training/education department and the certification turned into multiple choice written tests.</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tony Mullen <tony.mullen@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bf-education@blender.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:47 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 72, Issue 10<br></font><br>Hi Jentzen,<br><br>This mailing list doesn't get real heavy traffic. And no, other than<br>this list there's no centralized education-specific communication<br>channel that I'm aware of.<br><br>I'm also involved in documentation (I've written a number of Blender<br>books) and education. I teach Blender (among other things) to college<br>students at several universities and have organized weekend courses<br>for filmmakers and for the
general public. I finished teaching a<br>week-long intermediate-advanced course at the Blender Institute<br>alongside Andy Goralczyk.<br><br>>I am interested to learn more about what the blender foundation take in regards to education.<br>>I am very tired of all the Autodesk Education summits and lip service.<br><br>The Blender Institute's main "official" educational effort is in the<br>Blender Foundation Certified Trainer certification program:<br><br><a href="http://www.blender.org/education-help/certified-trainer/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/education-help/certified-trainer/</a><br><br>I like to encourage people interested in teaching to take part in this<br>program. At the moment, to be honest, it is in its prolonged infancy.<br>We would like to see a time where it will become recognized as a<br>useful credential for Blender trainers. At presentt, it's not quite<br>all it could be, but it does represent the interest the BF has
in<br>supporting educators. Please consider applying for certification.<br>Particularly with your background in the effects industry and your<br>work with Autodesk's educational programs, you might have some insight<br>into how the BFCT can be improved.<br><br>The Blender Foundation itself has pretty limited personnel resources.<br>The "official" education initiatives are the BFCT program, the Open<br>Movie Workshop which generates training material, and the occasional<br>publication of books (or maybe soon a magazine). Everything else is<br>basically grass-roots. There are a number of Blender books (both free<br>and commercial) training DVDs, and even curricula available (e.g.<br><a href="http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/57" target="_blank">http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/57</a>). There are also websites set up to do<br>Blender training or host tutorials.<br><br><a href="http://cgcookie.com/blender/" target="_blank">http://cgcookie.com/blender/</a><br><a
href="http://www.blenderguru.com/" target="_blank">http://www.blenderguru.com/</a><br><a href="http://blenducation.org/wordpress/" target="_blank">http://blenducation.org/wordpress/</a><br><br>Are a few that are currently online.<br><br>It would be nice to see Blender picked up by more schools. I think<br>there are distinct benefits to schools (art schools, high schools,<br>universities, even CG trade schools to some extent) teaching Blender<br>instead of or alongside Brand X. But there's no official plan to push<br>for this that I know of. Again, this kind of promotion is something<br>that is done on the grass-roots level.<br><br>I hope some of this is useful/new information to you. To be honest,<br>the Blender education scene is pretty fragmented, but I think this<br>also reflects how fragmented the professional demand is for Blender<br>educators. It's hard to develop a really robust certification program<br>if employers aren't using it as a hiring
criterion.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Tony<br><br><br>><br>> I have not?received?any new posts or digests since my?initial?post.<br>> Does the group?communicate?through other mean or goes through waves of communication throughout the year?<br>><br>> Is anyone from the list going to the Blender conference for educational purposes?<br>> I would love to hear back from anyone who attends.<br>> curious about this talk, it seems like the only with specific goal of doing something?unique?with blender for education. ?"<br>> Samir Saidani, Bruno Meunier et al The Junior Studio: Blender as an Educational Tool for Cooperation Learning<br>> "<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: <a href="http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-education/attachments/20111025/a3aca8c5/attachment.html"
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