[Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12

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Well, I've heard this question come up before. Perhaps it's time for a few
educators to come together and chat about setting up something. Is anyone
interested in picking that up? Perhaps even an on-line service?

BTW, expect certification to cost something.

Also personally I'm very much in favour of linking a certificate to a
course, doing an online test can be tricky. If there'd be online
certification I'd say people would have to submit a LOT of material, which
means the people signing the certificate would have to do a lot of
looking/browsing/reading... and for something like this I would not expect
people to do that for free.

I have to say though that so far the educators certification seems to go
quite well.

Of course any educator is free to certify people in whatever way he
wants... but I think that if for instance the folks on the educators
certification board want to spend some time working out some of those
"guidelines for user certification", that that would be a good start.

Dolf




> Hello,
>
> The thing is that if I apply for a job as CG artist for an ad agency
> or as 3D artist/Animator for game industry and I have Blender as my
> primary tool in my resume, potential employer will not even look at me
> as prospective employee regardless of what my skills are. On the other
> hand if I have official certification that states my skills in
> particular areas, it would greatly increase my chances to get hired.
> In US, it's mostly about certificates. If you have none, you are no
> marketable. I would have to revert from Blender to MAX / Maya, spend
> time studying them and take away time from creative process and
> portfolio building, just to get a certificate that cost a lot of money
> and get back working in Blender.
> Thank you.
>
> - Alexander "motorsep" Zubov
> http://www.kot-in-action.com
>
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>>   1. Non-instructor certification (Alexander Zubov)
>>   2. Re: Non-instructor certification (John R. Nyquist)
>>   3. Re: Non-instructor certification (Dolf Veenvliet)
>>   4. Re: Non-instructor certification (Ton Roosendaal)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:46:13 -0500
>> From: "Alexander Zubov" <motorsep at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Bf-education] Non-instructor certification
>> To: bf-education at blender.org
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I am wondering if BF can certify Blender professionals in various
>> areas such as rigging, modeling, effects, animation, etc.
>> I am thinking of certificate that verifies user's proficiency in
>> particular area.
>> When it comes to getting a job in an industry where CG is being used
>> and resume states that Blender has been a primary tool, employer would
>> love to see a certificate.
>> Is there anything like that available at this moment?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> - Alexander "motorsep" Zubov
>> http://www.kot-in-action.com
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:35:38 -0600
>> From: "John R. Nyquist" <john at nyquist.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Non-instructor certification
>> To: "Blender Education and Training projects"
>>        <bf-education at blender.org>
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>> If the Blender Foundation does not do it, maybe a 3rd party like
>> BrainBench
>> could do it.
>>
>> Unless you're talking about the kind of certification where you need to
>> go
>> somewhere to actually take the test like what Prometric does with Java
>> certification. Then I think it'd have to come from the foundation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Alexander Zubov <motorsep at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am wondering if BF can certify Blender professionals in various
>>> areas such as rigging, modeling, effects, animation, etc.
>>> I am thinking of certificate that verifies user's proficiency in
>>> particular area.
>>> When it comes to getting a job in an industry where CG is being used
>>> and resume states that Blender has been a primary tool, employer would
>>> love to see a certificate.
>>> Is there anything like that available at this moment?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> - Alexander "motorsep" Zubov
>>> http://www.kot-in-action.com
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Bf-education mailing list
>>> Bf-education at blender.org
>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-education
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> John R. Nyquist
>> Nyquist Art + Logic
>> http://nyquist.net/
>> http://bitsofblender.com/
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>> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:23:26 +0200
>> From: Dolf Veenvliet <info at macouno.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Non-instructor certification
>> To: Blender Education and Training projects <bf-education at blender.org>
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>> No currently that's no available. The Blender Foundation only certifies
>> educators. It is up to
>> the educators to certify the sutdents/users if they want to.
>>
>> Dolf
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 Jul 2008 at 16:35, John R. Nyquist wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> If the Blender Foundation does not do it, maybe a 3rd party like
>>> BrainBench could do it.
>>>
>>> Unless you're talking about the kind of certification where you need to
>>> go somewhere to actually
>>> take the test like what Prometric does with Java certification. Then I
>>> think it'd have to come from
>>> the foundation.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Alexander Zubov <motorsep at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>     Hello,
>>>
>>>     I am wondering if BF can certify Blender professionals in various
>>>     areas such as rigging, modeling, effects, animation, etc.
>>>     I am thinking of certificate that verifies user's proficiency in
>>>     particular area.
>>>     When it comes to getting a job in an industry where CG is being
>>> used
>>>     and resume states that Blender has been a primary tool, employer
>>> would
>>>     love to see a certificate.
>>>     Is there anything like that available at this moment?
>>>
>>>     Thank you.
>>>
>>>     - Alexander "motorsep" Zubov
>>>     http://www.kot-in-action.com
>>>     _______________________________________________
>>>     Bf-education mailing list
>>>     Bf-education at blender.org
>>>     http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-education
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> =======================
>>> John R. Nyquist
>>> Nyquist Art + Logic
>>> http://nyquist.net/
>>> http://bitsofblender.com/
>>> =======================
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:46:56 +0200
>> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Non-instructor certification
>> To: Blender Education and Training projects <bf-education at blender.org>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Yep that's right!
>>
>> More-over, I don't think we ever should go into a artist-certification.
>> Such certificates really should be given by renowned and respected
>> educators or educations, and then on their behallf.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>>
>> On 16 Jul, 2008, at 1:23, Dolf Veenvliet wrote:
>>
>>> No currently that's no available. The Blender Foundation only
>>> certifies educators. It is up to
>>> the educators to certify the sutdents/users if they want to.
>>>
>>> Dolf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15 Jul 2008 at 16:35, John R. Nyquist wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> If the Blender Foundation does not do it, maybe a 3rd party like
>>>> BrainBench could do it.
>>>>
>>>> Unless you're talking about the kind of certification where you need
>>>> to go somewhere to actually
>>>> take the test like what Prometric does with Java certification. Then
>>>> I think it'd have to come from
>>>> the foundation.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Alexander Zubov <motorsep at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>     Hello,
>>>>
>>>>     I am wondering if BF can certify Blender professionals in various
>>>>     areas such as rigging, modeling, effects, animation, etc.
>>>>     I am thinking of certificate that verifies user's proficiency in
>>>>     particular area.
>>>>     When it comes to getting a job in an industry where CG is being
>>>> used
>>>>     and resume states that Blender has been a primary tool, employer
>>>> would
>>>>     love to see a certificate.
>>>>     Is there anything like that available at this moment?
>>>>
>>>>     Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>     - Alexander "motorsep" Zubov
>>>>     http://www.kot-in-action.com
>>>>     _______________________________________________
>>>>     Bf-education mailing list
>>>>     Bf-education at blender.org
>>>>     http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-education
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> =======================
>>>> John R. Nyquist
>>>> Nyquist Art + Logic
>>>> http://nyquist.net/
>>>> http://bitsofblender.com/
>>>> =======================
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