[Gimp-user] Blender Foundation style 'open graphics project' with GIMP?

2014-04-17 Thread Danyl Strype
Greetings

I'd just like to suggest that GIMP develop a program of engagement
with artists along the lines of what the Blender Foundation are doing
with their open movie projects:
http://www.blender.org/features/projects/

The open movie's are both a chance to showcase the beautiful work that
can be done with Blender, and a way to focus development on new
features, and harvest feedback from users about ways the UX can be
improved.

From reading the summaries at the link above, it seems that each
project involved setting some ambitious goals for what the software
needed to be able to do, and working with an arts organisation to set
an artistic challenge. The resulting artwork is then heavily promoted,
as a way of bringing attention to the software and its capabilities,
and copies can be sold or used as rewards in crowdfunding campaigns.

Just a thought.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Blender Foundation style 'open graphics project' with GIMP?

2014-04-17 Thread Crs Mrn
Yes...I think that, if the Gimp community would collaborate with Blender
community...it would be benefic for everyone. I am myself a Blender user,
and I use Gimp for texturing. If Gimp could help Blender users, then, there
would be automaticly a raise in Gimp development speed, because more and
more devs will get interested. Gimp should support some special tools for
texturing UV maps, as well as a Blender-Gimp dual plugin that makes the
workflow between these softwares easier. I think Gimp community should
support Blender community, and find a way to get more known in there.
Blender community would also support Gimp... and, with a great development
flow comes evolution.
În data de 17.04.2014 21:43, Danyl Strype stry...@disintermedia.net.nz
a scris:

 Greetings

 I'd just like to suggest that GIMP develop a program of engagement
 with artists along the lines of what the Blender Foundation are doing
 with their open movie projects:
 http://www.blender.org/features/projects/

 The open movie's are both a chance to showcase the beautiful work that
 can be done with Blender, and a way to focus development on new
 features, and harvest feedback from users about ways the UX can be
 improved.

 From reading the summaries at the link above, it seems that each
 project involved setting some ambitious goals for what the software
 needed to be able to do, and working with an arts organisation to set
 an artistic challenge. The resulting artwork is then heavily promoted,
 as a way of bringing attention to the software and its capabilities,
 and copies can be sold or used as rewards in crowdfunding campaigns.

 Just a thought.

 --
 Danyl Strype
 Community Developer
 Disintermedia.net.nz/strype

 Geeks are those who partake in our culture.
 - .ISOcrates

 Voting... is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The
 last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will
 get a version of it through a dessicated question, and then will
 submerge it in a Niagra of similar opinions, and convert them into -
 what else? - another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of
 impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which
 you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you
 can do nothing.
 - Neil Postman, 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
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