A training session on Open Source CGI and Multimedia Tools will take place in Sofia Bulgaria over one week from the 14th till the 20th of May.
Topics and Software:
- 3D CGI - Blender, GIMP, Voodoo tracker
- Post-production - Blender, Cinelerra
- Audio production - Ardour, Cinelerra
- Hardware setup, Tools for renderfarms control - Dr. Queue, Cinelerra
- Usage of collaborative software - Subversion, Track
There is a participation fee of €1000 that includes the training, accommodation and meals. Upon request there are also scholarships available. The training is targeted to artists working in the fields of 3D CGI, post-production, video editing, animation, advertising special effects and sound engineering. Application forms and more information on www.tosmi.org.
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'There is a participation fee of €1000'
Is it just me or is that very expensive?
Defenetly it's too expensive...
Way Too expensive!!!!!
The cost covers ONE WEEK of training, housing, and meals. That's really a good deal, assuming that the training is thorough.
I'm with Kernon.
It's one week of training!
If the contents are good enough, the price is reasonable. (ok, maybe not for me. In Argentina €1 = ar$ 4.)
Be careful, "Voodoo tracker" is not Open Source. It can not be used for production even if it's free for now.
You can't really get more than two of those apps nailed in a week (being optimistic) let alone configured and working on an unknown empty Linux box . . . (hides!) I'd even be dubious of the idea of using some of those tools in production.
Sounds expensive to me - especially compared with the libregraphics event or the Blender conference.
Well, I hope the motion tracking thing to Blender comes fast :).
I had never head of Cinelerra before =).
Hello , I am one of the trainers in Tosmi. I just drop by to tell you that the program is focused on Blender, while using the rest of the software to support movie/animation creation. Essentially we are teaching the use of Blender in animation while exposing the trainees to a variety of open source tools. We are not using just a show and tell method but instead we have set up a small animation production where the trainees have to do modelling, texturing ,lighting , animating etc to fill in gaps in the production. We hope that by the end of this week we will have a small animation to show almost completelly done by the trainees.
So mave, you're telling me people have to pay to work for you.
That's wrong. You should pay them if they are doing ANY work for you.
Howitzer, I do not believe I said that we are going to sell the movie, or make something out of it. The movie is not ours but of the trainees. Nobody is working for me, and you have it all wrong since I am working for them. If they need anything I have to provide it to them, if they need to spend 2 - 4 hours more (as happened in Tuesday where half of the trainees stayed after 8 hours of intensive training) I am there to show and help them in anything they need. So please , you have it all wrong, it is the other way around.