[Bf-committers] Compliments :)

[Jean-Michel Smith]

Hi,

Just my two cents worth.

As a user of blender who has made stills and animations in the past,
but hasn't had time to keep up on it, I would pay good money for a
comprehensive set of DVD/book/online tutorials that would guide me
from the "having forgotten everything/never knew anything" stage up
through the "competent to make star wars episode 3.5 'Revelations'
quality animations" stage.

If blender.org or a third party (who would hopefully contribute some
portion of said proceeds to blender.org) were to offer such a
wonderful thing I would probably fork over $100 or so for it, just for
the time savings in getting back up to speed alone.

just a little food for thought,

Jean.

On 5/12/05, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We (luckily) don't suffer from an aggressive Marketing & Sales
> deparment. Nevertheless, it remains important to communicate to the
> outside world Blender really is doing great, being used by
> professionals, for serious projects, and attracts more and more users
> each day.
> 
> I've already asked Angela (who'll organize the next blender conference
> too) to extract the website statistics and write some more PR &
> marketing oriented contributions for the website to reflect better the
> information we receive.
> 
> Below 2 mails I recently got in from users who now are ex-3DS artists
> now. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ton-
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: "DtB" <xxxxx.co.uk>
> > Date: 29 April, 2005 22:20:00 GMT+02:00
> > To: <foundation at blender.org>
> > Subject: To whom it may concern.
> >
> > To whom it may concern;
> > 
> > My name is Duane and im a recent 3D Animation graduate from the UK.
> > Having onlyused Blenderbriefly sinceleaving university I can only
> > look back in despair having spent4 years of my life learning 3d max
> > and Maya. All the time knowing that the moment University ended so
> > would any chance of me using one of those very expensive
> > applications.
> > 
> > Having now used blender for a short time i am thinking that such a
> > great program is going largley unknown in the UK. I was hoping to
> > change this by creating books and dvd tutorials for students and make
> > them available through the internet.
> > 
> > I was wondering about what legal restrictions thereare regarding
> > making and distributing Blender tutorials books (self made) and DVD's
> > (self made)?
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > 
> > Duane
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: "Johan Rabie" <xxxx.co.za>
> > Date: 11 May, 2005 8:56:51 GMT+02:00
> > To: <foundation at blender.org>
> > Subject: Blender
> >
> > I just want to thank all those involved in blender for providing such
> > a magnificent program.
> > I can not express to you how useful it has been to me in professional
> > and personal regards.
> > 
> > I have been using 3ds for 3 years and blender now for 2 years and I
> > find myself never going back to 3ds for anything anymore.
> > 
> > So, my hearty thanks goes out to all those involved in the blender
> > project making it better and better every day.
> >
> 
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