[dba-Tech] Want to be an animator?

Mark Breen marklbreen at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 07:39:32 CST 2014


Hello All

I had a quick look at the site and noticed a bunch of videos for sale.  Has
anyone tried to use Blender without investing a week of their time and
watching a bunch of videos?

Is there a hello world for blender ?

Is it way to heavy for my eleven year old son to usefully work with?






On 24 January 2014 12:07, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote:

>  Hi Jim --
>
> AFAIS Blender is written using C, C++ and Python. Great.
>
> See also:
>
> https://developer.blender.org/
>
> http://nicholasbishop.net/?page_id=20
>
>
> BTW, Blender's author  Nicholas Bishop  seems to be also working on/for
>
> http://www.makerbot.com/makerware/
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Shamil
>
> Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:30 PM -07:00 from Jim Lawrence <
> accessd at shaw.ca>:
> >Hi All:
> >
> >Until fairly recently, (about a year ago) there was not a great OS
> animation application.
> >
> >If you were in the business you would have to purchase such applications
> as Studiomax, XSI, Render and so on...not inexpensive to say the least. The
> problem was that not just one of the programs would allow a designer to
> create industry standards results...you would generally have to buy a suite
> of up to six products.
> >
> >Five years of university, to acquire a degree in arts and animation and
> then a potential ten grand worth of applications...not to mention the cost
> of the computer...the years of BYOD(?) If you went to work for an animation
> company, not everyone has the budget of Pixar (or the huge team of
> programmers), you would have to hope they could afford the latest product
> site licenses...many companies just can not afford to keep the development
> software current.
> >
> >Now there is just such an application for those of you who are starting
> in the business or just want to start your own contract animation studio.
> >
> >http://www.blender.org
> >
> >The application runs on all major platforms, 32 and 64bit.
> >
> >Here is a demoreel sample on what you could build using Blender:
> >
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XZGulDxz9o
> >
> >Jim
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> Салахетдинов Шамиль
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