[Bf-committers] Compliments :)

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Behind the scenes I'm already very busy working on it... need to get  
the announcement ready, plans finished, fincancial issues clear, and so  
on. Soon! :)

-Ton-

On 12 May, 2005, at 19:08, Jean-Michel Smith wrote:

> 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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