Thai government releases free Blender/GIMP ebook

Bart · October 24, 2009

A subsidiary of the Thai government has released two *very* extensive ebooks on Blender and the GIMP.

Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:

SIPA (an organization of Royal Thai Government to promote software development industry in Thailand) made a release of Blender and GIMP books. These are updates of the previously released books to catch up with newer versions of the softwares. The Blender one was covering a very introduction to the program, basic modeling, basic SLR and basic animation in its almost 300 pages. While its contents didn’t cover much of the advance subjects in 3D computer graphics, it is still a very good resource for beginners and especially for others to integrate Blender into their pipelines.

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Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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Davis

24 October 2009 at 15:47

This would be especially cool if I knew Thai.

a user

24 October 2009 at 15:48

Last week there was also an open source animation camp for kids in Thailand sponsored by
an insurance company. As a part of the event, they are teaching those Thai kids Blender.
You can check some videos here.

http://ayudhya-allianz-cp.exteen.com/20091018/blender

a user

24 October 2009 at 16:25

And some decent reactions to the Factbot I got from #blender freenode

justa: ….thai..government ?,,,,sponsoring a book about digital image composition/manipulation ?..
justa: there must be a chapter regarding the use of feet in scenes with the king of thailand in them ?
monty_hall: I thought Thai was known for kick boxing and exotic sex tourism. – graphics… hmmm. I learned something new today.

How nice! Sure we are better than that :)

Bastian

24 October 2009 at 17:55

Clever thinking of them!

TH Blender

24 October 2009 at 18:29

HA HA HA……. Yes everyone Thai people do know graphics and some of them are really good.

But unfortunately, this is only book about blender in Thai language which is full of (too) basic stuff! I’m really surprised that no one write a better book(than This) about blender since we have many expert blender users here in Thailand.

However, I hope you all not recognize Thailand as country that everyone ride elephant to work ( and to school ) Ha Ha Ha!!!

PS. My english is not good, it may have some mistake, sorry about that. – -*

Levi

24 October 2009 at 18:44

@THBlender – Don’t worry, most native English speakers don’t speak it that well. :D

That’s fascinating, wish our government would do something similar but I doubt they would if they could. Oh well. I’ll just have to pay money at the Blender store.

nemesis

24 October 2009 at 18:45

I am going to Thailand next year to get my teeth all fixed. They have brilliant dentists and they are cheaper than in Europe.

Thailand is full of brilliant artists.

I am glad to see the Thai goverment giving out a book like this free to its citizens. That will increae the number of Blender users.

stupiduser

24 October 2009 at 19:23

Thailand goverment, u guys are cool.
unlike the microsoft’s and autodesk’s slave goverment in my country T_T, u guys are lame

donblender

24 October 2009 at 20:10

Gracias.. muchas gracias :)
thx ……
thai muchas pero muchas gracias

donblender

24 October 2009 at 20:15

les recomiendo http://falcon-one.net/movie/memory/index.html

Johan

24 October 2009 at 22:46

I don’t let Thai dentists near my teeth unless they can model it in 3D.

RNS

25 October 2009 at 00:35

check this out :http://www.flickr.com/photos/18769960@N03/4040416267/

wasaby

25 October 2009 at 05:58

vaya estaria genial una traduccion de este libro, en lo personal me ofresco para la traduccion al espaÃ±ol, no se tailandez, pero usando algun traductor y corriegiendo y estructurando los resultados del traductor de una forma coetente al idioma, creo k podria funcionar. Un saludo a toda la comunidad desde Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

a user

25 October 2009 at 13:22

@Johan AFAIK some of them are using software quite similar to ZBrush to fine tune your teeth already.

wtf

25 October 2009 at 13:31

these books are superficial and only in thai so no need for that

sogetsu

26 October 2009 at 01:07

it will be nice an english translation

joan

26 October 2009 at 02:48

Cabe seÃ±alar que la cultura oriental es la mejor
la gente es muy humilde
por lo tanto, son grandes maestros

:) :) :) :) :)

oleang

26 October 2009 at 07:57

http://www.vimeo.com/user870904/videos

Some Blender3d tutorials in Thai

Praz

27 October 2009 at 05:48

urmm…thats pretty cool.I wish i knew thai :-(

hoping indonesia Gov will do the same thing TT____TTa

JackieNP

27 October 2009 at 18:56

I’m Thai people.
Very happy that I can read Blender book in Thai language.

Thanks for all blender user.

Cameron

28 October 2009 at 03:22

Wow, these guys know what they’re doing. Anyone else considering moving to Thailand? :-)

Seriously, the American government should take a hint. :-D Obama could write one of these! LOL.

@TH Blender – my thoughts about Thailand have received a major boost. Let’s just say we went from elephant to sweet techno government in 2.6 seconds :-D

eko sulistiyono

5 May 2010 at 07:41

Guys, both links are DEAD…anyone know where i could donlot those books?
please send the link to [email protected]

Thank You

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