[Bf-education] Siggraph educator Birds of Feather

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Scott,

That's awesome, thanks! Good to read people doing such cool stuff here.
I will connect you to the Siggraph chair later.

Regards,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 25 Nov, 2011, at 15:20, W. Scott Meador wrote:

> Hi Ton!
>
> I am interested in presenting at the BoF. I am teaching courses  
> called Visual Effects Animation and Visual Effects Compositing in a  
> Digital Filmmaking program. The Animation course is all Blender and  
> the Compositing course is mostly After Effects, but we have a  
> section on compositing 3D rendering. We have also been using  
> Syntheyes in the Compositing course, but I am interested in moving  
> our tracking to Blender. My Animation course did do some tracking  
> with the Tomato branch this semester.
>
> We also recently built a small compute cluster in cooperation with  
> faculty in Computer Science and Mathematics that my students and I  
> have used for rendering tasks. I wrote a Python script to make it  
> easier for the students to submit jobs to the cluster. Two of the  
> nodes have Cuda hardware that I intend to use with Cycles soon (will  
> have worked with it a lot by next summer).
>
> Last, my colleagues and I produced a stereo3D film with almost all  
> virtual scenery, which was created in Blender. The film is still in  
> post production, but should be complete by January.
>
> BTW, I used to teach 3D animation at Purdue University in the  
> department of Computer Graphics Technology where we were very  
> Autodesk-centric and I was a certified instructor for 3dsmax years  
> ago. I know what it is like being in that environment compared to  
> the open-ness of Blender and the Blender community.
>
> Please let me know if any of this sounds useful for the BoF. I could  
> put together a more cohesive proposal asap if that would be more  
> helpful.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Scott Meador
> Assistant Professor of Digital Filmmaking
> Department of Mass Communication and Theatre
> University of Central Arkansas
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2011, at 5:00 AM, bf-education-request at blender.org wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:33:40 +0100
>> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
>> Subject: [Bf-education] Siggraph educator Birds of Feather
>> To: Blender Educators and Trainers <bf-education at blender.org>
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> Marc Barr, SIGGRAPH Education Committee Chair, has asked me if  
>> Blender
>> Foundation would be interested organizing a "Birds of a Feather" for
>> educators.
>>
>> It could be about free/open learning of 3D creation at schools/
>> colleges. Stuff that's by-default not possible with Adesk sw :)
>>
>> Although I think it's cool to have educators meet there and discuss
>> matters, it would be much more interesting if such a BoF would be
>> presented/hosted well, with use cases and some presenters.
>>
>> Anyone on this list interested, and already planning to visit  
>> Siggraph
>> LA 2012?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The  
>> Netherlands
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