Subdivide and Smooth Tutorial Contest

Whaat · 14 May 2009, 03:21

Hi,

To celebrate the one year anniversary of Subdivide and Smooth, I am having a tutorial contest with cash prizes! Check it out here:

Tutorial Contest Announcement

There's not much time left so get those entries in!
Thanks everyone for supporting my plugins!

Dale

GreenToaster · 16 May 2009, 11:21

I have a couple of projects I'd like to submit - can I use the old script w/the newest version of su pro?
OOOPS! Just discovered this works fine - I've encountered no problems using the old script with the new version of su pro.
I really hope I can submit something useful - this was a very worthwhile investment - I love this script!

takesh h · 22 May 2009, 04:10

Does anybody know, if modeling a well-known piece of furniture (designed in the last seventy years - so its copyright is effective) in a tutorial like the above case is considered as copyright infringement?

remus · 22 May 2009, 06:01

You should be ok. Formfonts do it all the time, and i'd imagine theyve looked in to it very closely.

Gaieus · 22 May 2009, 11:03

Also consider that "tutorials" are for educational purposes so they should be freely done even with copyrighted material.

takesh h · 22 May 2009, 11:51

Thanks guys, I've been contemplating entering the comp, now I think I will.

Whaat · 24 May 2009, 03:22

Not much time left. Make sure you get your entries in before June 1st!

Whaat · 2 Jun 2009, 02:59

Well, the contest deadline has arrived. I will post the results on my blog pretty soon. It won't be too hard to pick the winner. There was only one entry! Oh well... Can anyone explain the lack of entries?

Roger · 2 Jun 2009, 06:20

Copyright law is not retroactive so the death-plus-seventy-five rule does not apply until the most recent version of copyright law went into effect (fairly recent but I don't remember the year).

takesh h · 2 Jun 2009, 06:48

@whaat said:

It won't be too hard to pick the winner. There was only one entry! Oh well...

Oh so I got two round-trip plane tickets to Finland? That's a good news...

@whaat said:

Can anyone explain the lack of entries?

Making tutorials for software is not everybody's favorite passtime I guess.
I kinda enjoy doing it, hence the steady updating of "Visual Index of Ruby
scripts". http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/ruby-scripts/9467-visual-index-ruby-scripts.html
I always wanted to write about this script in the Visual Index, but the complexity of the script and three-picture-per-script limit of the forum (half self-imposed) didn't allow me to take on the task.
I also happened to have the idea for the tutorial and the material at hand, which I initially thought about a SU book-deal (now dead).
So it was like a perfect opportunity for me... I hope my tutorial lived up to your standard, Dale. (BTW Camtasia Studio didn't live up to mine!)