Thomas, I've never seen your videos, they are VERY welcomed and valuable help for many artists! Thank you!
cheers! Piotr Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics Division of Artificial Intelligence, Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, room 121 phone: +48585232125, University home page: http://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao Also: Polish Blender Course: http://polskikursblendera.pl/ [PL] 2014-02-23 22:01 GMT+01:00 Paulo José Amaro <paul...@gmail.com>: > Thomas, your videos are very exciting! I'm always waiting for what's next! > :-D I think both the release notes and your videos are important, they has > different content and different approach. Both should be presented at > blender.org. > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Howard Trickey <howard.tric...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I like your videos and think they would help people understand the > features > > of the new release as a supplement to the release log, and support > linking > > to them off of that page. > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Beck < > softw...@plasmasolutions.de > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi friends, > > > > > > In short > > > ---------------------- > > > Today I'd like to propose smth.: To add a section to our release logs > > with > > > the sneak peek videos for the 2.70 series that I released once a week > for > > > every Blender release. > > > > > > You can see the playlist for the current version here (every new > version > > > gets a new playlist) > > > > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfceNesfWvLUCsnw1DR2Oup8hFw5z6SB2 > > > > > > The longer story > > > ---------------------- > > > My name is Thomas Beck, I'm the head of a small studio called > > > Plasmasolutions (therefore the nick) here in Germany. Many of you know > me > > > at least from the #bcon13, from IRC and as a #b3d dev. > > > > > > I'm teaching, using and hacking in Blender a lot and am pretty frequent > > in > > > touch with the user base. While talking with users I often heard that > > they > > > don't know many of the new features of our releases and that they feel > > like > > > they were taken by surprise when we changed something suddenly and > > > important for them (but for us maybe not) - they are mostly not reading > > the > > > ML or discussing with us on developer.blender.org. > > > > > > So I created a series of videos that show our current development > > progress > > > every week, give some insight into the development and create some > > interest > > > in new features - and I have to say: The comments are overwhelming > > positive > > > - users feel more as if they were "part of the development" (I know > that > > > they actually are, but they don't felt like that) now and that they > could > > > get a feeling for new features now early. > > > Apart from that I'd like to give a bit of shine to the hardworking devs > > > that are often forgotten outside the dev universe - so I credit as much > > as > > > I can ;) > > > > > > Reading through the comments on yt and blenderartists, many are asking > to > > > make that the standard way of a release log and that we (devs) should > put > > > those sneak peek videos on the www.blender.org page and on the release > > > notes (maybe as a new features section in companion with cool Blend > files > > > that represent the features). > > > > > > I absolutely don't think that this should become the standard way of > > > release logging - I for myself really enjoy reading (and writing) > release > > > logs and have a non-videoish way to look up key combinations and ideas > > that > > > led to the development of a specific feature! But people are lazy and I > > > think we could help them by adding those vids to the logs and maybe the > > > website ;) > > > > > > Ton finds the videos cool and supposed I ask you guys here...so what's > > your > > > opinion about this? Btw.: Bastien is already using a few to light up > his > > > dev work. > > > > > > Many greetings ... and go Blender go! > > > Thomas > > > > > > ------ > > > Plasmasolutions > > > Design | Development | Training > > > > > > Website: Http://www.plasmasolutions.de <http://www.plasmasolutions.de/ > > > > > Blog: Http://blog.plasmasolutions.de <http://blog.plasmasolutions.de/> > > > > > > Telefon: 0176 2017 9565 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Paulo José O. Amaro > _______________________________________________ > 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
