Comments on: German 'Blender DVD Seminar' Reviewed

By: lukasdesign

lukasdesign — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:18:13 +0000

well i already loved "Das Blenderbuch", it was my first ever CG book, bought back in 2000 or 2001. It gave me a good base for the use of blender.
So I'm sure that the new book of Carsten Wartmann will help many new users to find their way around in one of the most powerful 3d applications available.

By: Germanicus

Germanicus — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:25:00 +0000

adding to O's reply:

speaking of outdated:
the dpunkt.de site where the "german blender seminar DVD" is sold
even told me that my Firefox 3.0.3 is outdated:

"WARNING !!! Your browser is too old and will not display the page optimally !
Please upgrade to Netscape Communicator 4.X"

NS 4! :O
Maybe this site, its contents and offers might
be long outdated too? ;)

Germanicus

By: o

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:30:31 +0000

on their dpunkt.de website they have a link to blender.nl that says Not a Number…isnt that outdated?

By: Germanicus

Germanicus — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:37:01 +0000

Hi.
I just checked the previews from the dpunkt site.

Beeing a native speaker in german myself, I was
not at all happy about the voice that reminded me
more of my nice´s fairytale audiobooks than of
a technical documentation/tutorial.

I'd rather live with "aaah's" and "oops sorry" than
falling asleep while trying to learn somthing.

Please be aware that I did not check on the
quality of the tutorial itself. This might be rather good.

I just wanted to state that the dubbing is not
e'bodys darling, and for me, would result in
definitly not buying the DVD (39€ !).

So my next tutorial-DVD buy will then be more likely
"Creature Factory" from blender.org (27€)
or Jeff Lew's tutorials (jefflew.com).
just my 2cts.

Germanicus
(when in Antioch, nerver trust a Piso!)

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:35:31 +0000

@zapman: I have a thing for circles :)

By: zapman

zapman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:33:18 +0000

oh, the grouping of the tracks fell victim to the unordered-list…. not too important but it was grouped once.. :)

By: Isernbreegen

Isernbreegen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:51:13 +0000

What a coincidence. I've just bought the DVD yesterday. I was afraid that version 2.45 might be too outdated but I agree, that's not the case.

What I really, really like about the DVD is the dubbing. It is so very helpful listening to such a professional, calm and precise voice. It is a bit distracting though that the speaker keeps talking in first person ("you can reach ME at … MY homepage …") because you just know it's not really Carsten Wartmann speaking.

All in all I'm impressed with the content. Looking forward to Carstens next book.

By: mama

mama — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:48:38 +0000

flv on a dvd?
use ogg!