A big thank-you to Richard Bensley for this tutorial, and to Richard Lewis for arranging a venue. I never knew I was a spaceship designer and human sculptor! Okay, perhaps I'm not, but I had a lot of fun, and it was very interesting to play with something outside my usual use of Linux. And Richard explained this tricky material both well and with enthusiasm.
I think the format worked well: The presenter instructed the class and a helper with a computer on the projector, the class brought laptops, and the presenter could use the whiteboard, walk around to troubleshoot etc. With tea and biscuits, what more could you want :-)
Tip: Blender uses the numeric keypad heavily, so make sure it works, or for best effect use an external keyboard. Mine didn't work, fortunately I could do a hardware swap with Joe (ta!). I managed to fix my laptop this morning with this voodoo: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work#NumLock The other problem my laptop encountered was a box mode select graphics card driver issue (just like http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3593/problemtj6.png) that I haven't fixed yet.
-- Martijn
Thank you Martijn, and thanks to everyone who turned up joined in. Special big thansk to Richard Lewis for getting the venue and refreshments organised.
The video results of the talk will be up asap. Once I have collected my thoughts after this ever so busy weekend, I shall start thinking about future larger talks!
Thanks again Richard
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 11:02 +0100, Martijn Koster wrote:
A big thank-you to Richard Bensley for this tutorial, and to Richard Lewis for arranging a venue. I never knew I was a spaceship designer and human sculptor! Okay, perhaps I'm not, but I had a lot of fun, and it was very interesting to play with something outside my usual use of Linux. And Richard explained this tricky material both well and with enthusiasm.
I think the format worked well: The presenter instructed the class and a helper with a computer on the projector, the class brought laptops, and the presenter could use the whiteboard, walk around to troubleshoot etc. With tea and biscuits, what more could you want :-)
Tip: Blender uses the numeric keypad heavily, so make sure it works, or for best effect use an external keyboard. Mine didn't work, fortunately I could do a hardware swap with Joe (ta!). I managed to fix my laptop this morning with this voodoo: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work#NumLock The other problem my laptop encountered was a box mode select graphics card driver issue (just like http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3593/problemtj6.png) that I haven't fixed yet.
-- Martijn
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On Monday 16 July 2007 08:11:37 Richard Bensley wrote:
Thank you Martijn, and thanks to everyone who turned up joined in. Special big thansk to Richard Lewis for getting the venue and refreshments organised.
It was teh fun!
The video results of the talk will be up asap.
I would be cool to have some stills to put on the Facebok ;-)
Cheers, Richard
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Martijn Koster wrote:
A big thank-you to Richard Bensley for this tutorial, and to Richard Lewis for arranging a venue. I never knew I was a spaceship designer and human sculptor! Okay, perhaps I'm not, but I had a lot of fun, and it was very interesting to play with something outside my usual use of Linux. And Richard explained this tricky material both well and with enthusiasm.
Seconded; I am completely unartistic and wasn't expecting to achieve much, but ended up really enjoying myself. Thanks to both the Richards for organising/giving such a good workshop.
J.
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