Comments on: Open Source CGI and Multimedia Tools, Sofia, Bulgaria

By: mave

mave — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:29:21 +0000

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.

By: Howitzer

Howitzer — Wed, 16 May 2007 04:46:08 +0000

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.

By: mave

mave — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:38:47 +0000

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.

By: Falgor

Falgor — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:31:58 +0000

Well, I hope the motion tracking thing to Blender comes fast :).
I had never head of Cinelerra before =).

By: Nige

Nige — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:56:00 +0000

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.

By: CoyHot

CoyHot — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:38:39 +0000

Be careful, "Voodoo tracker" is not Open Source. It can not be used for production even if it's free for now.

By: Gez

Gez — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:09:48 +0000

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.)

By: Kernon

Kernon — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:58:18 +0000

The cost covers ONE WEEK of training, housing, and meals. That's really a good deal, assuming that the training is thorough.

By: Jchisenga

Jchisenga — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:34 +0000

Way Too expensive!!!!!

By: Durden

Durden — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:15:59 +0000

Defenetly it's too expensive…