I just saw this presentation earlier today as well. Great presentation in my opinion.
I absolutely could not believe someone would ask "Do we want new users?" Such a selfish thought should be banished. I sincerely hope all developers can unanimously and enthusiastically answer "Yes we do!" and lay that question to rest. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Knapp <magick.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.blenderguru.com/the-big-issues/ > I just read this and it is great and right on, IMOHO. I hope all the > devs read this and take it to heart. I think we should all be running > to implement these ideas!!! > > I first found blender about 12 years ago. I downloaded it, started it > and was completely STUCK!! I turned it off (even had a hard time doing > that!) and did not try again for 5 years. > > The next time I restarted because I ran into graybeards vids and > wanted to make a video game. I thought maybe Blender hand grown up a > bit. I also had a faster computer that make it work much better. His > vid tuts got me over the hump of the great but incredibly hard to > comprehend mouse and GUI interface. Within months I was wishing that > all software hand the same interface. It is so much better than > anything I had used before in any software, once I got over the > complete novelty and non-standardness of it. I am still not completely > sure 2.5 is an improvement is some areas! (but over all it is and I > find it hard to go back now. It still needs a lot of smoothing out and > polish as do all new software projects.) > > The next problem was getting better at it. This only happened because > I got lucky one day googling something and found another vid tutorial > that took my blender work up another notch. This has repeated many > times since then but it has alway been a VERY lucky find my jumping > hotlinks or lucky googling or tips from IRC or whatever. All this > should be on the main web site and EASY to find for new users. Half > the time I can't find the tuts that I liked after I found them in the > first place. This can not remain this way if we are to grow up and > take over the 3d world. :-) > > A last word; I would LOVE to see a ManCandy 2 done with Blender 2.5!! > This was the last learning tool that REALLY got the lead out and made > blender usable for me! > > -- > Douglas E Knapp > > Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies > with open source software! > http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php > > Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: > http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm > Please link to me and trade links with me! > > Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. > http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page > http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
