[Bf-education] STEM Educator Seeks "Blender In The Bay"

[Rafiki Cai | Technologist-In-Residence]

Layne:

I thought it would be considerate to immediately write you back
and explain my reference to the Marriott chain, especially since
you're being kind enough to offer your time pro bono. LOL

I get employee rate at the Marriott and thus I can stay at locations
for around $40 (plus tax) a night.  In Cali that's not too far from a
hostel rate. :)

Are you are aware of any regional buses that run from Sacramento
or Roseville to the Empire National Park?  Roseville was about as
far as the Marriott map stretches toward Grass Valley.

I wouldn't mind jumping on a regional bus, back and forth from Sac
or Roseville if we decided to weave a Sunday and Monday session
together.

In Service of THE ONENESS,
Rafiki "The Digital Doctor" Cai


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:57 AM, <lhall at 3ddesigncreations.com> wrote:

> Hello Rafiki,
>
>   My name is Layne Hall and I am not a Cert. Blender Trainer, however
> I do use Blender professionally 100%. Mainly modeling some animation
> etc. I do live a few hours north of you Grass Valley Ca. and might be
> able to give you some face time. I do not know everything (not even
> close) about the software but I might be able to get you started. I
> picked up Blender about 3 years ago and spent a 2 years (thank God for
> my wife's awesome job) doing nothing but learning the program and the
> basics of modeling, animation and rigging, materials-textures, UV
> mapping, topology, basic particle systems and Blender physics hard
> body soft body etc, and more.
>
> Like others have said there are 100s of tutorials out there, most of
> them are great and will teach you something no matter what version was
> used to make the tutorial.
>
> There is an advantage to face to face learning especially for a
> beginner and because Blender has been great to me for the past 8
> months I would be willing to help a future BH if our schedules and
> time allows.
>
> Peace...Layne
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Rafiki Cai | Technologist-In-Residence <rcai3 at usfca.edu>:
>
> > Blessings and Peace:
> >
> > I am a technologist and educator, tasked with exposing first generation
> > college applicants to the possibilities inside of Science, Technology,
> > Engineering and
> > Math (STEM).
> >
> > Video has become such a digital capital these days, from a number of
> > perspectives.
> > I'd like to incorporate video into my Web Application Development seminar
> > this summer, even though I have no strength in video and media arts.
> >
> > What would I like to accomplish visa vi Blender?
> >
> > 1) showcase the dynamics of Open Source culture (i.e., creative crowd
> > sourcing)
> >
> > 2) basic exposure to Blender (to the point of building background
> elements
> > for green screen video footage)
> >
> > ------
> >
> > Bay Area Blender Masters, I need you.  I need you to school me on
> Blender:
> > a train the trainer sort of thing.  (I'm thinking mostly virtually so,
> with
> > some face-to-face meets- if possible.)
> >
> > I searched for a Blender Meet-Up in the Bay Area but found none.  Thus,
> I'm
> > turning to this list.
> >
> > Looking forward to responses.
> >
> > In Service of THE ONENESS,
> > Rafiki "The Digital Doctor" Cai
> >
>
>
>
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