[Bf-education] breaking into the montreal scene

Sun Nov 27 16:06:30 CET 2011

You have to throw a free poutine party. :)

Well, that's actually a very tough one, because Softimage is headquartered
in Montreal with about 100 employees.  It's a source of pride to have a
local company go really big.  I think it would take a blockbuster game or
movie + a production ready release of blender a few months before the
softimage:autodesk launch.  Plus a ton of old-fashioned community building
- boot camps, socials... and you have to be fashion-sexy in montreal.

k

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> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:40:08 +0100
> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5
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> Hi,
>
> Montreal has a huge 3d industry... many studios there. It would be
> interesting to find out what we can do to break the Autodesk dominance
> there.
>
> -Ton-
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> On 25 Nov, 2011, at 19:01, James Halliwell wrote:
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> > No plans to visit LA, but on the Blender 3d education side of
> > things, working with the City of Montreal, I have arranged to begin
> > a Blender 3D club with the use of the resources  and space they will
> > provide. If the popularity and interest of the Club is good, they
> > are open to adding Blender 3D courses to the list of computer
> > courses that are currently provided. Planned start is Jan 2012.
> >
> > A sad thing I find in Montreal is that some places advertise Blender
> > courses but do not give them. This inculdes The National Film Board
> > and a place called  Centre NAD. Centre NAD has not given a Blender
> > courses after the last ones give by Jean Francois Guillmette.
> > Blender is being used to attract students and then  3D Max other are
> > promoted and taught. I am sure this is hurting Blender overall in
> > Montreal. I have written to these groups in the hope that they would
> > stop this practice, but to no avail.
> >
> > Blender Rocks!
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> >
> > James Halliwell
> > Montreal QC
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> > > From: bf-education-request at blender.org
> > > Subject: Bf-education Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5
> > > To: bf-education at blender.org
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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
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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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> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:06:31 -0500
> From: "Adamson, Thomas" <T.Adamson at snhu.edu>
> Subject: [Bf-education] My Input
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> Folks,
>  I am currently teaching game design and development at Southern New
> Hampshire University (snhu.edu).  We introduce UDK3, Unity, and Blender
> as well as Maya and Z-Brush.  I will not be attending any conferences,
> however if there is anyway I may contribute to this project, please let me
> know.  Currently we are working on Interactive Story Telling (IS) using
> HTML5.  I think Blender with its Python programming base would be an
> excellent candidate for IS.  If you wish, you may view my YouTube training
> videos in C++, HTML5, and Blender (prof.t.adamson).
>  Keep up the excellent work with Blender.
>  Tom Adamson
>  Visiting Assistant Professor
>  Computer Game Design and Development
>  Southern New Hampshire University
>  t.adamson at snhu.edu
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