[Technical] Help Please with Animation Output Format

[Keith Richardson]

Thank you Zach.
Blender is certainly going to be included!
Cheers, Keith


On Tue, 23 May 2006 22:46:44 +1000, "Zach Alexakos"
<alexakos.zach.z at edumail.vic.gov.au> said:
> 
> Con,
> We offer Blender at our school.  The students were quite impressed by its
> capabilities and initially blown away by what seemed to be its
> complexities but after some practice they managed ok.
> We are currently seeking funding from ASISTM for a two year Blender
> Project with Deakin Uni, Industry and several other Victorian schools.
> Last year at the VITTA Conference I presented a short one hour session
> only (I had no choice), and the interest was significant.  Teachers
> wanted more so this year I am offering a two hour session on Blender at
> the 2006 VITTA Conference.
> You only have to look at the number of downloads of the Blender software
> on the Blender site to realise that it's quite a good software tool used
> not only in education but in industry as well.  Year 8 upwards.
> Zach Alexakos
> Some export formats are shown below.
> Emacs!
> At 09:19 PM 23/05/2006, you wrote:
> 
>   On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:17:06PM +1000, Keith Richardson wrote:
>   ...
>   > * 3D Animation (Kahootz but only for Primary and Junior), or Bryce or
>   > Maya - Kahootz as a .ktz file, Bryce or Maya as an .AVI
>   Keith,
>   I'm not into the animation scene, but I'm curious about the omission of
>   Blender3D, seeing how it's a powerful tool which is available for free
>   on
>   all the platforms that students are likely to be using (Mac, Windows,
>   Linux.)
>   Is there something that Blender lacks, or facilities it can't provide?
>   I
>   know it's a complex tool, but so is Maya.
>    [1] http://www.blender.org/
>   Cheers,
>   Con Zymaris
>   - CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
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>   - Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry
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