Hi Charles, I changed the subject, I hope this is ok. Also, wich mailing list is the proper for this topic? Both?
2013/5/25 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> >Sure, thanks for being around :-) >A radical change is not going to happen, at least not "overnight" . We >are aiming at changing things bits by bits. > >But your skills can be very useful to the LibreOffice project starting >even today: doing a set of promotional videos of some simple use cases >"how do I do this or that" is a great thing to have. Would you be >interested? > >Thanks, > >Charles. Sure! Use-cases videos are very interesting. They would work as promotion as well as teaching users features they may not know, or they don't know how usefull they are. (surprisingly many of them, even the simpler as the styles menu). My proposal is a series of motion-graphics videos, made with Blender3D software, in wich the LibreOffice interface is animated as in a screencast. A voice over could explain the steps for some basic taks (formatting text, creating a presentation, etc) and maybe some advanced ones. There's a great example on Gnome3 videos, made by Jakub Steiner. He also did tutorials with them on motion graphics with Blender: http://goo.gl/pZa0Z Proposed pipeline: 1. Script (including voice-over if any) 2. Storyboard 3. Gather official images of the interface elements and menus. Vectorial files? Or just screenshots? 4. Record a rough version of the voice-over (if any) in order to get the timing for the animation. 5. Import the interface graphics as textures in Blender with 'Import-as-plane' addon. 6. Animation. Note possible voice-over adjustments. 7. Final voice-over recording. 8. Soundtrack (?) 9. Final render in image sequence. Convert with avconv to standard and web video formats. I will be able to commit to this during July-August. Meanwhile we can work on the script, deciding wich features or workflows should be shown. I could work by my own on the steps about storyboard and Blender animation but I would need help with sound recording and step 3. Who's up? ;) Cheers, Pablo. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
