[Bf-marketing] Blender growth in Denmark - steadily and surely.

[Rui Campos]

Hi.

This is very good to read, perhaps it can be used in a marketing campaign ?
Possibly with some more accurate data.

On a note I already see lots of users using Blender in their workflow with
the new 2.40 version.
Several scripts are now floating around for exporting fluids animation to
other applications such as XSI and Cinema 4D.
After Blender gets a full featured export / import with animation such as
Collada or using FBX's SDK (FBX, OBJ, 3DS and Collada) we will see even
much more users using it.


-- Rui --


----- Original Message -----
> Hi fellow marketeers ;)
>
> I just wanted to inform you about an observation I´ve made
> in the Danish Blender user forums the last past 2 years.
>
> It´s normal for most new 3d users to have a certain fallout/falloff rate
> where
> some of them simply "give up learning 3d" because 3d is too hard for them
> or they just didnt catch the interest in learning our trade.
>
> Well...
>
> For 2-3 years ago I requested a forum for Blender users in the Danish well
> known and established 3d-site for 3Dstudio max users because of all the
> "newbies" that wanted to play with 3d for free. Since I also went from
> 3dstudio max to Blender - I´ve maintained that forum and even written
> Danish
> user guides to Blender. This have had a certain success rate I think is
> worth
> some observation.
>
> I´ve noticed in the forums that people who had tried Cinema 4D, 3dstudio
> Max,
> XSI and MAYA often went over to the "other-side" and landed on one of the
> the 4 well known programs of their choice - and the switching where pretty
> often and consistent.
>
> BUT...
>
> With the Blender users the story was quite different:
>
> Most new Blender users to the forum - stayed with Blender all the way, yes
> -
> some of these users have been with us since the start of the Danish
> Blender
> forum and new users are coming around all the time. It´s also noteworthy
> that
> there are in fact more registered Blender users than Maya users now in
> Denmark,
> not only did that show up in a recent Poll made in the forums - but also
> noticeable when one observes the number of forum messages in there.
> Max is still the "forum-leader" but Blender now has 12 % coverage and is
> the SECOND largest user-3d-activity in Denmark.
>
> The forums: www.3dmaxer.dk (Danish language)
> my "now-old" Guide: http://www.hamsterking.com/blender/blender.htm (also
> in
> Danish)
>
> So what can we learn from this?
>
> - Blender users stay with Blender
> - Other 3d Platform users switches a lot (not happy?)
> - Blender newbies learn faster than initially though, especially those new
> to
> 3d!
> - Blender users develop 3d skills and finds "other ways" easier than
> those with abundance of tools?
>
> Anyway - I just though I´d write a little about this observation.
>
> Happy new year,
> Tommy Helgevold
> (Aka JoOngle)
>
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