Another thing, I forgot to mention that the event will not be charged to the participant, that it is an open seminar.
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim < faizol.blen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thanks for the feedback. > > Roger, the basic part of the travelling (airfare, hotel and expenses) will > be covered by the organizer. As per presentation fee, I need to get some > input (figure, terms and conditions, etc) from the respective speakers and > relay it to the organizer. Suggestions are welcome. Anyone interested may > email it directly to me. > > Charles, that's an excellent idea. One thing for sure is the video won't be > as costly as Autodesk's Master series. I'll try to get in touch with Blender > Institute and see if they have some other ideas on this. > > Another note on pipeline features that I totally forgot, production > collaboration tool/pipeline. Blender's collaboration tool is top notch and > can rival expensive proprietary system but only blender user who are heavily > involved in production environment who know about it. > > Keep it coming guys. > > Thank you. > > Best Regards, > Faizol Abd. Halim > Malaysia > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Charles Wardlaw < > cward...@marchentertainment.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Something that Autodesk always does is they record these seminars and sell >> disks with the video, resource files, and a PDF of notes and slides from the >> presentations. >> >> I don't know that this would help you, but if you could get organizers to >> agree to let you record the presentations and then afterwards you could sell >> the DVDs, splitting profit with the organizers, you could recoup some of the >> cost of the stipends you'd need to pay out to get people to Malaysia. Also >> it'd benefit the community at large as there are so few master classes on >> Blender, and some of the most useful knowledge on the software is esoteric. >> >> Although, I woudln't charge what Autodesk does. Some of their DVDs have >> had notoriously little usable information and cost upwards of $80 USD. >> ~ C >> >> >> >> On 2010-05-07, at 2:55 AM, Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim wrote: >> >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > I'm in the middle of preparing a paperwork to organize a seminar on >> > Content Creation in Malaysia. I've suggested to the organizer to have a >> > technical presentation using Blender tools, much like Autodesk's >> > Master/expert series. The organizer so far seems to be interested in the >> > idea. I might have a chance to invite several speakers from Blender >> > community to talk in-depth about Blender's technology in production >> > environment. The categories covered can be in any of the creative >> content's >> > main pipelines (modeling, rigging, rendering, scripting, >> > effects/particles/simulations). I think this would be a good exposure >> about >> > Blender's real capabilities to the participants (which will be attended >> by >> > most of the local productions in Malaysia). >> > >> > Truly appreciate it if anyone can give me a feedback on this, or perhaps >> > some suggestions if there's anyone that I should contact to move this >> idea >> > forward? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Best Regards, >> > Faizol Abd. Halim >> > Malaysia >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Bf-committers mailing list >> > Bf-committers@blender.org >> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers