Jason van Gumster

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Jason van Gumster mostly makes stuff up. He writes, animates, and occasionally teaches, all using open source tools. He's run a small, independent animation studio, wrote Blender For Dummies and GIMP Bible, and continues to blurt out his experiences during a [sometimes] weekly podcast, the Open Source Creative Podcast. Adventures (and lies) at @monsterjavaguns.

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First, it's worth noting (as mentioned in the article) that this is *not* a tutorial book. It's a reference book for Krita.

Second, it's very common these days for there to be educational resources for open source software offered for a fair price. For a book like this one, it's certainly a worthwhile expense and encourages creation of more quality resources like this one in the future.

Examples of the work created by the students? I believe that there are some images of that in the presentation that they gave. If you're referring to the project descriptions/worksheets, you may want to contact Monique about that.