As an educator I am always interested in how Blender and 3D can be used inside the academic landscape to simulate or explain certain subjects. This project Francisco submitted is very impressive. It is a well made mix of live footage composed with 2d and 3D animation utilizing texture basic shapes and particle system to explain the concept behind metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET).
Francisco writes:
Manuel Gómez Campos writes:
I’m Francisco Manuel Gómez Campos, assistant professor at University of Granada, in Spain. I would like to inform the community about our last public release of a teaching video developed in Blender.This is the third work we carry out using free software in order to innovate in the learning process of Electronics. This time we have developed a teaching video about the metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). You can have a look on it. There is a Spanish and an English version, you can select the one you prefer:
English Version
Spanish version
These videos were done in Blender 2.48a and 2.49. Textures were adapted using Gimp. We tried to do a enjoyable presentation, trying to get the best of the 3D animation. We tried to improve light rigging, modelling and animation in comparison with our previous works.
As in our previous releases, we are grateful to the Blender community about their criticisms. They help us a lot to improve our videos. Please feel free to comment on the details you think should be improved.
As in our previous releases, we also hope this video could be instructive for the students. Our previous videos had a very possitive impact in Spain and Latin America. We achieved several tens of thousands of views in them, and they are the first references in their topics when you look for them in YouTube ("osciloscopio" and "densidad de estados").
Probably the topic of the video is not familiar to you, but I hope you would like the images and the music. In the credits there is an acknowledgement for the Blender users & developers community. I learn so much about many of you that I think you deserved this little acknowledgement in our work.
Thanks!
Best Wishes,
Francisco M. Gómez Campos
University of Granada, SPAIN
14 Comments
Very nice work. Though I admit as a tech guy, I'd like to have seen the examples shown to be more physically similar to the real silicone that was shown, instead of the "block" versions. And one addition is adding the process of making the CMOS MOSFET. To show how layers are deposited and how lithography works. But that is simply because I know to much.
Still, for majority of people it really explains how MOSFET works, and that is the most important part. So well done.
I think this is a very good teaching video.
It is very clear and good for teaching.
Well done.
I had troubles staying concentrate last year while learning this at school.
But with such an awesome video, it would have been a piece of cake!
Buen trabajo profesor!! Me sorprendió mucho el trabajo de edición que lleva y la manera de dirigirlo. Sigue así, seguro que nos das más sorpresas.
Professor, Good work! I was very surprised with the editing work and
direction. Keep it up, sure you give us more surprises.
Nice work regarding the video but really boring voice-over in both english and spanish version, a little more accentuation would have helped a lot.
Hear David Attenborough in this vid as an example how a good voice-over can sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ
Brilliant! Very well done! I like how Blender can be used to teach very abstract topics in a very entertaining and visual fashion. Bravo to the team who created this video!
@Grzesiek
Yes, we initially thought the deposition and lithography was relevant and it should be shown in this video. Finally we thought it deserved a single video for it because of the length, so probably this would be the topic of a future work. Thanks for commenting! :-)
@Nemesis
I'm grateful for your comments! Thanks!
@Lionroots
We are preparing a full cake shop for the next years! ;-) The next one is going to be about diodes.
@Adolfo
Thanks for commenting! By the way, my spaceship is approaching a new planet, called Ofito's world ;-)
@Tom
Thank you very much for your kind criticism. I'll take it into account for the next one. I'll tell the girls to enhance the accentuation, of course xD
@Weelian
Thank you very much for your kind words! I'm glad you liked it!
I'm grateful for all your comments, and as I said in my note, I think Blender users provide an excellent feedback for those interested in learning, as it is my case ;-) Thank you!
You have skills! I love your video. My Spanish isn't the best. So, I watched the Spanish version in order to easily focus on the animation and not the content. I love your approach. Thanks so much for sharing with the community. When will you switch to using Blender 2.5 or newer? Would you consider making a short video demonstrating some of your Blender techniques? Or even produce a DVD that helps educators learn to use Blender? The proceeds from DVD sales could benefit your students.
Anyway, just some ideas I had with my morning cup of coffee! Cheers!
Jeff
@loopduplicate
Thanks for your comments! These comments help us to keep going ahead :-)
Right now I'm testing Blender 2.57. I have found interesting applications in it not available in previous versions. If everything is going well, our next release would be developed in it. About the video demonstration, I'm flattered that you proposed that to me but I just used regular techniques that could be found elsewhere. Nevertheless, I will think about it.
Thanks again for your comments.
@Grzesiek
For a guy 'who knows to[o] much", I'm surprised you don't know the difference between "silicone" and silicon - that's rather fundamental!
@Andy
Do you mean he needs to learn perfect English before he can consider himself knowledgeable in other areas? There are two different translations of the video. They are great teaching tools. Yet, all you have to say is some lame negative comment. Lighten up.
@Andy
Probably Grzesiek knows how to speak at least two languages. These confusions also happen to me, since I also speak several languages. I would like to know your oppinion about the presented work, not about the orthography in other colleagues' comments.
@loopduplicate
Thank you for your wise comments and for your respect with non-native English speakers :-) This acknowledgement is also extended to all native English speakers that are respectful with non-native English speakers. We always try to do our best.
@loopduplicate
Woah there, my comment was a reaction to @Grzesiek's rather boastful "I know to much", criticising what is, I agree, a very good teaching tool. The difference between silicon and silicone is not simply an orthographic mistake, the first can be used for MOSFETs, the second, amongst other things, for breast enhancement inserts. As for "Lighten up" - that is surely the pot calling the kettle black.
@fmgomez
My apologies for not leaving feedback on the video. They are indeed excellent and inspiring. I must agree with a previous comment, however, that the English commentary could do with livening up a little. (Although I speak four languages, Spanish is not one of them, so I have not watched that version).
@Andy
Whoa there yourself. Lighten up!