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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Hello there;</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Good to see this thread still in good
shape:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">For what I've seen, there seems to be a
consensus on the main path to start defining a plausible structure
for Blender Education.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">The intrinsic question that must be
asked when preparing any body of knowledge to be turned into learning
units; mainly, what is this knowledge made of? Has been answered like
so:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">1)-Skill Sets (SS):
</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">A series of
techniques and concepts that, as a group, define the profile of an
activity to be fulfilled in a job placement.</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">Examples:</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Modeler</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Rigger</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Animator</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Texture /
Materials artist</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Lighting / Camera
artist</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Compositor</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Programmer</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">The interesting
thing about Skill Sets is that by themselves, one could see them
acting as the zodiac signs and the planets on the natal charts
(Gemini with ascendant Scorpio is akin to saying Texture / Material
artist with a specialization in compositing), In that sense a “lip
sync” job position would require a Modeler/Rigger with an Animation
specialty.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">2)-Proficiency Levels (PL):</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">For every Skill
Set, a relevant state of overall expertise is defined by the
Proficiency Level associated with it.</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">Although plenty
debatable still, I would like to propose a basic three tier approach
to PL:</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Standard (notice
how I didn't use wording like “basic” or “beginner” this is
pure PR).</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Advanced</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">-Specialist</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">The way that these
would work is acting as enablers; to become certified as a Specialist
Animator the student <i>must</i> be Standard in Modeling and Rigging,
and <i>at least</i> advanced in one of them. This is just one
enabling scheme given as an example, any scheme can be applicable.</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">The Specialist
course calendar would then be handled depending on where the student
stand in terms of PL for the given SS (so for those with no prior PL
but who still qualify for the Specialty, a SS bootcamp / crash course
can be required alongside the Specialty course).</p><p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">These can be
bundled or separate, which is still too far away a point to discuss
here.</p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0in">Now, I didn't
include the broader terms beginner, intermediate, expert, master,
godlike, etc because these are descriptions that pertain to the
person, and are the result of the accumulated knowledge which is in
fact the factor of how many SS at which PL the student has under her
belt.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Thus, if we consider that Blender as a
whole is an “area of knowledge” (I am about to stretch on an
analogy, please bear with me), we could then map it out on a plane
and chunk it into a matrix of “parcels of interest” using PL and
SS as the X,Y axles.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Job positions and titles could then be
“graphed” as distributions of check marks across this map.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">This is an utterly important point for
the commercial minded in this ML; find jazzy names for these graphs,
equate them with other software offerings, flesh them out with
descriptions of the performed tasks and how they represent workflow
solutions:
</p>
<br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><u>Give Blender a solid ground in the
employers' minds , who are ultimately responsible for driving your
demand.</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">The way this would end up working is
plain simple to visualize if you have ever built an RPG character
(from dungeons and dragons to fallout3, else you and your inner child
need to have a long talk).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Outside of courses and certifications,
in the land of the self-made and the self-taught, what this matrix
means is that we can work on creating a tagging system for any given
bit of knowledge available out there, and we can plot this knowledge
back onto the map, so that anyone from any background can travel the
knowledge landscape in any direction at their own pace.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">The good thing is that this doesn't
need to be an all encompassing terabyte cluster hosted site, rather,
for starters, it could work as an aggregative (indexing all available
vimeo/ youtube clips in terms of blender version/SS/PL would be a
quantum leap compared to what is available now) until bigger measures
are merited.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">What does need upfront agreement is the
method that will be used to shape the SS axle, and a working draft of
the finner points in its list.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"> For this I strongly advocate a point
that has already been brought forth in this topic discussion;
</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><u>Work on the blenderwiki. </u>
</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">This will help us get a clearer picture
of the scope (what s more I truly believe the wiki should be the
central Standard SS documentation repository).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">The Wiki is another example of
masterful community work that is regulated with the help of IRC.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Give #blenderwiki a try whenever you
pop around the servers.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">As matters stand, all this will be
pretty hard to achieve without a proper regulatory body and a clearly
defined task force/todo list, as such and to close a circle, I think
you have all done a great amount of valuable contributions to the
topic, and I am confident we will see great initiatives and solid
proposals being brought forward.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">I' ll go play in traffic now.</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Knapp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:magick.crow@gmail.com">magick.crow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Creative spelling due to it being early morning before coffee. :-)<br>
now = know<br>
of = off<br>
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Not that I have any real spelling skills. LOL<br>
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