RE: Thaigo's company Lagoa is being acquired by Autodesk for $62M

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Lampi
I have to chime in. I worked with Thiago in Toronto for about a month a few years back. We shared an apartment provided by the studio. He's got to be one of the smartest normal people I have had the pleasure to work with in VFX. When I say normal, he's not that typical brainiac type who is

Re: New ww.Lagoa.com

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Lampi
This highlights an issue that has been on my mind as of late. I am not directing this at anyone in particular... How to read a contract. Art/Animation schools don't teach students anything about how to read contracts or how to manage your intellectual property rights. It's time they started and

Re: Stand-Alone to Network license?

2014-10-24 Thread Eric Lampi
Hurry up and learn 3DS Max, it's the next to be axed. UX Designer www.ericlampi.com On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: ... got 3dsmax for free. Lol! xD On 10/24/14 15:51, Sven Constable wrote: I just ordered the upgrade/update to soft2015 NLM and I

VFX-UX

2014-09-22 Thread Eric Lampi
Hi All, I was getting off a plane in Austin on my way to SXSW when I read the news about Soft being discontinued. Even though, as I said for a long time, I expected it to happen, it was still a shock. That was the day I unsubscribed to this list. For a variety of reasons and for quite some time,

Re: Re: VFX-UX

2014-09-22 Thread Eric Lampi
find a place to be happy for the future, and thank you for your input on this list too. Cheers Morten Bartholdy aka Pitcher Den 22. september 2014 kl. 08:15 skrev Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com: Hi All, I was getting off a plane in Austin on my way to SXSW when I read the news

Re: License to END if you migrate?!

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Lampi
Yes it adds quite a bit of insult to injury doesn't it? That's why I don't buy all of the additional We want to serve our customers better or It was a difficult decision. Bite me AD. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/mybudoinc/animation On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:25 PM,

Re: License to END if you migrate?!

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Lampi
It's the typical short sighted mindset that has ruined so many great products. They think that they can cut all of that development and support, it's a win win because they cannot imagine that these SoftImage people have any other product to transition to other than Maya. So they cut costs and add

RE: new upgrade policy

2014-03-01 Thread Eric Lampi
Learn Maya? No thanks. Personally I would prefer a total severing of all ties with AD. They're not a great company and in general I would prefer to support one that is smaller, and more focused on what I do instead of being almost an afterthought. If only their stockholders knew that they have

Re: Redshift3D Render

2014-02-27 Thread Eric Lampi
I just scratched the surface with RS early in the beta test last summer. My wife was doing pro-bono design work for the NYC Human Rights Campaign fundraising gala, and one afternoon I whipped up a neon sign graphic for her. Rendering was a breeze and of course very very fast compared to Mental

Re: new upgrade policy

2014-02-27 Thread Eric Lampi
You should never apologize for The Who, those that don't get it should apologize for not getting it. Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/mybudoinc/animation On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: sorry dude... Soft is dead.LONG LIVE

Re: Redshift3D Render

2014-02-17 Thread Eric Lampi
We did some tests, on a scene with about 20,000 instanced objects on particles with refraction and reflection to match a Vray shader we were using. The rendertimes were something like 4 minutes compared to 30+ minutes with Vray. Freelance 3D and VFX animator

Re: image sequence doesnt render with vray

2014-01-28 Thread Eric Lampi
Vray has be a royal pain in the butt for the project I have been working on. It's been buggy and inconsistent. I'm definitely regretting letting someone talk me into it. I should have stood firm on Arnold. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Tue, Jan

Matte from Geo intersection

2014-01-23 Thread Eric Lampi
Can anyone offer a suggestion how to achieve this? Just a simple matte on an object where another one is intersecting, so the surface inside the volume is white, outside is black. The volume itself would be hidden. The geo isn't very dense, someone here suggested generating a wieghtmap via ICE,

Re: Matte from Geo intersection

2014-01-23 Thread Eric Lampi
: There is a handy booltrace shader by Alan Jones on http://rray.de/xsi/ That maybe sounds similar to what you are looking for Jeff *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi *Sent:* Thursday, January 23, 2014

Re: Pointcloud Point Lights

2014-01-22 Thread Eric Lampi
A long time ago, I used a object 2 pointcloud script to put a bunch of point lights onto a simulation, that was pre ICE, but I can't imagine that it wouldn't still be possible, there has to be some tools kicking around that will let you do that. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator

Re: Solutions for running softimage on a MAC Station?

2014-01-21 Thread Eric Lampi
The only way I have ever seen this done sucessfully is through bootcamp. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:40 PM, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi list, I talked to an IT guy the other day. He says

Re: Windows 8

2014-01-13 Thread Eric Lampi
I've used both 7 and 8 with no problems. I don't think it makes a huge difference. Nice that it boots so fast now. Once I do a backup, I'll put on 8.1. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Simon Pickard

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2014-01-06 Thread Eric Lampi
First place I worked at I saw a young woman creative from an agency come into the 3D area. She was squinting at the monitor and I couldn't tell what she was looking at, then she says Oh thank God, they're SGI!. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On

Re: Plexus Compound- Finding Danil Krivoruchko

2013-12-20 Thread Eric Lampi
I sent him an email for that ice node. He did respond eventually, but it took a few days at least. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: I am trying to reach Danil Krivoruchko

Re: positivity

2013-12-20 Thread Eric Lampi
Few people are as big a fan of Soft as I am. I've been using it since 1995, Soft 3D 3.0 and Soft is still all I use. You will get no argument from me about how great it is to work with. In my experience, it's very rare someone who has started using it after having experience with Maya or Max come

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2013-12-20 Thread Eric Lampi
HAHAHAHA, great work!! Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work 2013/12/20 wavo w...@fiftyeight.com Merry Xmas and a happy new Year: done with one of the last version of softimage: http://www.bang-awards.com/en/movie/362-mite -- *Walter

Re: rumor, Soft dead within the next year

2013-12-20 Thread Eric Lampi
The illuminati sent you... DIDN'T THEY Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:45 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: i heard a rumour, Hitler was seen riding a dinosaur past the pyramids, accompanied by a

Re: positivity

2013-12-20 Thread Eric Lampi
WICAT systems, System 300 and 150. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/wicat/brochures/System_300_Brochure.pdfhttp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/wicat/brochures/WISE_Brochure.pdf 1988 I worked for a defense contractor making computer based training lessons for a naval combat

Re: positivity

2013-12-20 Thread Eric Lampi
:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi *Sent:* Friday, December 20, 2013 2:52 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: positivity WICAT systems, System 300 and 150. http://bitsavers.trailing

Re: emPolygonizer in Fabric Engine using KL extension

2013-12-19 Thread Eric Lampi
I wish you guys could buy SoftImage from Autodesk before they put it down... Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.comwrote: The door swings both way. .. that doesn't make me really

Re: Static Turbulence

2013-12-10 Thread Eric Lampi
The turbulence is in global space, so when your object moves through space, it's actually moving through the noise. Maybe if you parent the mesh to null and animate that, then use that null's global position plugged into the xyz position of the turbulence, that should keep your points constant

Re: Static Turbulence

2013-12-10 Thread Eric Lampi
No it wouldn't, I misunderstood what he was using it with. Thanks Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Benoit Delaunay delaunay@gmail.comwrote: Eric, I don't think it would work if the mesh is animated with an

Re: Tim Borgmann's emTopolizer2 Experiments

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lampi
W o w. So freakin' cool. Meanwhile, if anyone hasn't seen his reel, it's really fun to watch... Great work Tim! https://vimeo.com/57005606 Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Eric Mootz e...@mootzoid.com wrote: Hey

Re: Tim Borgmann's emTopolizer2 Experiments

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lampi
VIOLENTLY BEAUTIFUL Olivier wins for the most accurately creative description... Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:48 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: This is VIOLENTLY BEAUTIFUL ! Le 05/12/2013 15:23,

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Eric Lampi
Wow! Great work! Eric On Nov 22, 2013 9:04 AM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! https://vimeo.com/71148018 your library toolset is a thing of beauty! a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St.

Object Label pass.. for particle instances

2013-11-13 Thread Eric Lampi
Anyone work out a way to render a unique color per particle/instance, or somehow apply a unique object ID to the instances so that the MR object label pass will work? Thanks, Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work

Re: what

2013-10-30 Thread Eric Lampi
You need a la bit of string, a bottle of molasses, some pocket lint from a priest, a handful of roofing nails, 2 slinkys, a wombat and build a bonfire built at a crossroads by the light of the full moon. Or a computer with an internet connection. Freelance 3D and VFX animator

Re: what

2013-10-30 Thread Eric Lampi
/78203795 :) On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Mc Nistor nisc...@gmail.com wrote: That's great, I have all that is needed then, no need for computer/internet. ;) On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.comwrote: You need a la bit of string, a bottle of molasses, some

Re: If Tim Borgmann doesn't love this, I hang myself ;)

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Lampi
Wow, very cool work.. Can someone translate the titles? Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.comwrote: Cool stuff, I believe there was an article about them in one of the latest Digital

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-17 Thread Eric Lampi
Maurice Patel Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Lampi Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Autodesk´s Sales model Speaking

Re: New Plugin: LK Fabric

2013-10-09 Thread Eric Lampi
Loom Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: how about FABRIC WEAVER ? :) On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Someone should go

Re: 3delight v4 is out for Softimage

2013-09-26 Thread Eric Lampi
Well I can tell you that at the moment, Vray is practically useless compared to Arnold. We're using it currently, and we're all a little shocked here that it's not still in beta... Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:15 PM,

Re: 3delight v4 is out for Softimage

2013-09-26 Thread Eric Lampi
for vray? or vray in general? On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Well I can tell you that at the moment, Vray is practically useless compared to Arnold. We're using it currently, and we're all a little shocked here that it's not still in beta... Eric

Re: Looking for artists

2013-09-25 Thread Eric Lampi
You are illustrating exactly what is a consistent problem with artists in our industry. If people like yourself would pose the obvious questions and treat this as a business, we would all be far better off. As we all know far too well, if it hasn't happened to you, you certainly know more than a

Re: Looking for artists

2013-09-25 Thread Eric Lampi
I don't think there is malicious intent, but it doesn't make me comfortable, or anyone else apparently. What we need in this business is more transparency, not less. Eric On Sep 25, 2013 7:53 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm only a little surprised, but positively.

Re: Looking for artists

2013-09-22 Thread Eric Lampi
Sorry, but to not personally introduce yourself is weird, especially on this list. I don't think I have ever seen such a request in the 15 or so years I have been on the list. So I would like to ask you a couple questions: What is your name? Where are you currently based? Is your business model

Re: Looking for artists

2013-09-22 Thread Eric Lampi
pill, or the blue pill? Send the mail and discover what is behind that old corridor with light at the end that is at our site. Sincerely, *BC VIP Studio* Artist Pool Original Message Subject: Re: Looking for artists From: Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com Date: Sun

Royal Render and Vray

2013-09-13 Thread Eric Lampi
Anyone have this set up? We're getting errors saying that certain plugins etc are not installed, yet it can see the workgroups. Our IT guys can't seem to figure this out. Suggestions are appreciated! Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work

Re: Royal Render and Vray

2013-09-13 Thread Eric Lampi
the workgroup list lean. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have this set up? We're getting errors saying that certain plugins etc are not installed, yet it can see the workgroups. Our IT guys can't seem to figure this out. Suggestions are appreciated

Re: Strand Mechanics

2013-09-11 Thread Eric Lampi
Seconded... Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Gee, sometimes I really wish I knew what NASA has you working on, Joey. Gotta love that you're working in Soft in that environment. On

Rant: Caching tools still suck

2013-09-10 Thread Eric Lampi
Why is it that after all of these years, caching has to be a big bag of pain-in-the-ass? We have 3 different ways to do it and they all suck in one way or another. The fact is, none of them are great or elegant. Trying to get them to write out the damned custom attributes is bad enough and then

Would you like to recover your scene?

2013-09-06 Thread Eric Lampi
SoftImage: Hey Eric, I see that you crashed.. How would you like to recover your scene? Eric: Sure that would be great! Go right ahead, bring it on back! SoftImage You'll get nothing and like it! Meh Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work

ICE Weightmap issues

2013-09-03 Thread Eric Lampi
I figured I would ask, any bugs pop up in 2014 SP2 when using a few weightmaps to drive particle emission in a standard emit from geo node. We're having random crashes and cluster errors that seem to be tied to the weightmaps.Anyone have a similar issue? Thanks, Eric Freelance 3D and VFX

emission by point velocity of emitter

2013-09-01 Thread Eric Lampi
I'm trying to get this to work, but I am having little success. It seems like it should be fairly straightforward. I would like to drive a weightmap by the velocity of the geo's points that are being deformed by a skeleton. I can't seem to quite figure out how to access it and I am guessing some

Re: emission by point velocity of emitter

2013-09-01 Thread Eric Lampi
:37 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get this to work, but I am having little success. It seems like it should be fairly straightforward. I would like to drive a weightmap by the velocity of the geo's points that are being deformed by a skeleton. I can't seem to quite

ICE in name

2013-08-29 Thread Eric Lampi
When referencing objects, I was pretty sure you could put something like thismodel. in front of the name of the object to reference any object of that name under a model with the ICE tree. Am I just using the wrong name? Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work

Re: ICE in name

2013-08-29 Thread Eric Lampi
://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I think you're looking for this_model. There's also: self this this_parent On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: When referencing objects, I

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-27 Thread Eric Lampi
It's spelled J-e-s-u-s, but it's actually pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove. Eric (Non-Wookie) On Aug 27, 2013 12:31 AM, Benjamin Paschke ben.pasc...@rsp.com.au wrote: On 27/08/13 13:56, Eric Lampi wrote: Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! I'm pretty sure mentioning Jesus isn't going

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-26 Thread Eric Lampi
I'm a little unsure what the problem people have with him is too. Maybe I am just missing something? Aren't there are licensing fee associated with lots of technologies? They are then built into the cost to the consumery. Is it really cost prohibitive because he asks for too much or something? Or

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-26 Thread Eric Lampi
Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! Can we please keep this as the ONE forum on teh internets where I don't have to be inundated with derpy political comments and the inevitable, slow slide towards personal attacks and comparisons to Hitler. PLEASE!? Freelance 3D and VFX animator

Re: Friday Flashback #133

2013-08-26 Thread Eric Lampi
Agreed. I blame Eric. -Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Eric Deren eric_l...@dzignlight.comwrote: Eric, this is all your fault. Did I not CLEARLY state that I didn’t want this to turn into a political

Envelope freeze

2013-08-22 Thread Eric Lampi
Can anyone think of a clever way to freeze a mesh that's enveloped but not destructively? I'm adding some simulation functions to our character rig, basically just a copy of the enveloped mesh that I am using for particle generation. In order for my setup to work, it needs to be a static pose. So

Re: Envelope freeze

2013-08-22 Thread Eric Lampi
but effective. - Ronald On 8/22/2013 15:47, Eric Lampi wrote: Can anyone think of a clever way to freeze a mesh that's enveloped but not destructively? I'm adding some simulation functions to our character rig, basically just a copy of the enveloped mesh that I am using for particle

Re: Envelope freeze

2013-08-22 Thread Eric Lampi
...@gmail.comwrote: You could also have a mesh duplicate that has a simulated icetree and set its pointposition from the regular one, every frame. When you want it to freeze, just stop setting PointPosition. Would that work for you? On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Re: Flocking particles that stick to character topology

2013-08-15 Thread Eric Lampi
of the mesh. On 15 August 2013 00:40, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: I have a simulation where I am flocking particles with Emflock and pushing them back onto the emission geo. So they flow along the surface and interact, and it's exactly what I need. However, with an enveloped character

Re: Latest work from Whiskytree -- Elysium

2013-08-14 Thread Eric Lampi
I saw this the other night in IMAX, excellent work! Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Vincent Fortin vfor...@gmail.com wrote: Studios sharing the same directory structure... I like it :-) Great work guys! I can't

Vray between SoftImage and 3DS Max

2013-08-14 Thread Eric Lampi
Anyone use Vray between Max and Soft on the same job? One of our shots is being animated and modeled in Soft, but lit and rendered in Max using Vray. They are establishing the close-up look dev for a few of the intro shots. We'll be using Soft and Vray for all of the other shots, mostly

Flocking particles that stick to character topology

2013-08-14 Thread Eric Lampi
I have a simulation where I am flocking particles with Emflock and pushing them back onto the emission geo. So they flow along the surface and interact, and it's exactly what I need. However, with an enveloped character however, the particles do not inherit any kind of velocity and the slide over

Re: Maya Xgen

2013-08-11 Thread Eric Lampi
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Maya Xgen It beats having to pay Joe Alter for the privilege of having decent grooming tools... the xgen demo looks to be *ahem* a cut above shave's tools. (sorry) cheers, chrisg On 10 August 2013 15:22, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Maya Xgen

2013-08-10 Thread Eric Lampi
, day in and day our, on every multi-year production. On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: This just came across my feed on Facebook. It's so damned annoying to see them make a huge deal out of this kind of pedestrian crap. OK the hair stuff was nice

Re: Maya Xgen

2013-08-09 Thread Eric Lampi
This just came across my feed on Facebook. It's so damned annoying to see them make a huge deal out of this kind of pedestrian crap. OK the hair stuff was nice, but is anyone really that impressed with a hair styling tool? Exactly how often do you say to yourself Oh no!! How am I ever going to

Re: OT: Yost Group - related to the Naiad/SIGGRAPH discussion

2013-08-06 Thread Eric Lampi
It's between Tony at Psyop and Wyatt over at The Mill, the most epic beards in VFX. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: Not arguing that point at all. Tony wins by leaps and

Re: OT: Yost Group - related to the Naiad/SIGGRAPH discussion

2013-08-03 Thread Eric Lampi
SGI was different, first just the hardware cost a small fortune and you pretty much had to get it all from a reseller. Not to mention there were hardware dependencies for licenses. Sure MAYBE it was pirated, but I never saw nor heard of it at the time. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator

Re: Softimage Future (again (Siggraph 2014 reincarnation)

2013-08-01 Thread Eric Lampi
I, for one, am thankful for Classic Wookie. New Wookie tasted too much like Pepsi. On Aug 1, 2013 9:15 AM, Bradley Gabe witha...@gmail.com wrote: Classic wookiee mistake! On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.comwrote: Let the wookie win... Eric Thivierge

Re: Future of Naiad

2013-07-25 Thread Eric Lampi
No PR department has, in history, ever been able to prevent a cluster of twats from speculating wildly and working themselves into nerd-rage. If one was ever invented it would have to be either an armed force with right to extreme prejudice in applying force, or an act of God, or possibly both.

Re: Car-setup

2013-07-11 Thread Eric Lampi
In the case of using a pre-blurred texture-map, you might want to have a look at the FXtree and apply radial blurs and other FX to your image clip there. The reason being that, if you want to key more or less of an effect, you can easily to that, if you want to get fancy, link the blur values to

Re: OFF:Game job in Canada?

2013-06-26 Thread Eric Lampi
There's a fair bit of work going on in Canada, but some of it seems that there's a significant portion of it driven by the availability of subsidies being offered. Take some time and read up what's been going on at VFX Soldier: http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/ You'd be better off with a company

Re: OT: (sort-of) getting in to game dev

2013-06-17 Thread Eric Lampi
I think you need to be brutally honest with him about the nature of the business, game development and visual F/X. I have some contact with students who go to my alma mater, Pratt Institute. I've been very honest with them about how our industry is changing and how tough it might be to make a

Re: Mill 98% Human

2013-05-22 Thread Eric Lampi
Ha! That's because Jimmy Gas is way too modest. Awesome work guys! Eric On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Ajit Menon xsia...@gmail.com wrote: When Jimmy says it was nothing, that usually means he only built about 20 custom ICE compounds or so to do his bidding... On Tue, May 21, 2013 at

Photoshop CS6 64-bit .pic plugin

2013-05-14 Thread Eric Lampi
Where should this plugin be installed and where can I find the appropriate version? I think I have an older file that isn't comparable or I am just not putting in in the right location. Thanks Eric -- Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work

Re: Photoshop CS6 64-bit .pic plugin

2013-05-14 Thread Eric Lampi
since CS4, and as always, they go in Photoshop's Plug-Ins folder. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Where should this plugin be installed and where can I find the appropriate version? I think I have an older file that isn't comparable or I am just

%SUMATRAPATH%\moaudio.dll and FXTree errors

2013-04-16 Thread Eric Lampi
' ERROR : 2000 - Unable to create object [CLSID{A8BF89CA-1025-11D2-B5FD-006094EB029C}] : %SUMATRAPATH%moaudio.dll, Cleanup will be performed. I've been getting this error and I am not sure why. It just started happening all of the sudden and Soft 2013, and sp1 will not load these scenes.

Re: Rendering to video and formats

2013-03-20 Thread Eric Lampi
Hey Joey, I have to say the one program that has hands down beaten every other app to encode video is Adobe Media Encoder. It's very straightforward to use, and all it does is convert and encode video. It comes with a whole list of presets for every flavor of HD, various devices, formats,

Re: SI 2014 sneak peek

2013-02-28 Thread Eric Lampi
I can see a sequencer being very useful. Compositors and clients almost always want some wiggle room, being able to set a value for handles/head and tail on the cameras is what I would consider to be an essential feature. Eric On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com

Re: Difference between a force and a velocity ?

2013-02-14 Thread Eric Lampi
Albatross! On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: NI! NI! NI! NINININ On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Simon Anderson simonbenandersonl...@gmail.com wrote: Bring me a shrubbery On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Andy Moorer

Re: OT: Ergonomic chairs

2013-01-28 Thread Eric Lampi
Thanks for the suggestions, I actually already have an Aeron, bought it from a hedge fund guy who was downsizing a couple years back, the only good thing to come out of the financial crisis for me.. It just doesn't have all of the adjustments I need. I checked out several, and while the Herman

Re: URGENT Softimage license question within a company !!!

2013-01-08 Thread Eric Lampi
This is kind of amusing considering Autodesk was basically giving away SoftImage with every purchase of Max and Maya. Now, you have to provide your own Soft license? Not a good precedent to set in my opinion. On Jan 8, 2013 7:13 AM, Tim Leydecker bauero...@gmx.de wrote: Hey Sebastian, from

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Eric Lampi
From the website: Working with TV, Film, VFX or New media? It's free to join utopiapeople and we represent you on a non-exclusive basis. We take a 15% fee on agency bookings (not permanent). I am absolutely against this sort of thing. Paying someone else a hefty fee just to get introduced to a

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Eric Lampi
:34, Eric Lampi a écrit : From the website: Working with TV, Film, VFX or New media? It's free to join utopiapeople and we represent you on a non-exclusive basis. We take a 15% fee on agency bookings (not permanent). I am absolutely against this sort of thing. Paying someone else a hefty

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Eric Lampi
could help being even more organized. Just a thought Le 08/01/2013 20:34, Eric Lampi a écrit : From the website: Working with TV, Film, VFX or New media? It's free to join utopiapeople and we represent you on a non-exclusive basis. We take a 15% fee on agency bookings (not permanent

Re: Semi OT : Charging the modelling

2012-11-19 Thread Eric Lampi
In general, I have found the same to be true. Young CG artists are terrible at contracts negotiations and general understanding how to price their work. There have been several threads over at VFXSoldier.com that discuss, and while it's a blog that focuses mostly on the film industry, those issues

Re: Chunky EXR highlights

2012-10-28 Thread Eric Lampi
this for you. http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/software.html Anyhow, a bit late in the game, but I hope you solve it. regards stefan andersson On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I was afraid it was something like that. Well, thanks for the tips

Re: Chunky EXR highlights

2012-10-26 Thread Eric Lampi
which include a clipping option. ed On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Having some issue with EXRs, specifically pixelated highlights. Initially I thought it was an anti-aliasing issue, but the same frame rendered result as a Softimage pic doesn't have

Re: Chunky EXR highlights

2012-10-26 Thread Eric Lampi
? On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I was afraid it was something like that. Well, thanks for the tips everyone, I was hoping it could be done in comp. I don't have very hot values on my lights, reflection cards or environment, but I'll have a look

Re: Object Label Channel... Nevermind

2012-10-18 Thread Eric Lampi
get many more layers out of one seqeunce. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: hey eric -- could you post the links you found? (I'm feeling to lazy to google that string myself!) ;-) On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Raafal

2012-10-10 Thread Eric Lampi
Very very late 90's. There were no bevels or rounded corners until Sumatra. Stop sassin' the elders Eric, you just don't know what it was like... *SHUDDER* a scene for every pass. :) No render tree, script editor, texture editor, passes, overrides, ICE... It was horrible, we lived it with our

Re: Lamborghini - Supernova

2012-10-08 Thread Eric Lampi
Oooh nice. Nailing those macro shots is tough. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com wrote: Really nice job! congrats ;) On 8 October 2012 13:15, Marco Levantaci ma...@digitalgolem.com wrote: Thanks! Cheers, Marco On 08 Oct 2012, at 14:13, Javier Vega

Re: Runtime Error R6025

2012-10-05 Thread Eric Lampi
You don't have everything installed in one giant workgroup do you? On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: no particles,.but lots of hair? j -- *From:* Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com *To:* john clausing

Re: Runtime Error R6025

2012-10-05 Thread Eric Lampi
is well thanks everyone! john -- *From:* Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com *To:* john clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Sent:* Friday, October 5, 2012 2:21 PM *Subject:* Re: Runtime Error R6025 You don't have everything

Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Lampi
...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi *Sent:* Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:03 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Polygon Island orientation ** ** Is there any way to change a polygon island's center axis without moving

Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Lampi
several objects, one per island and you wish to orient those without touching the existing point positions? Am I right? On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Eric Lampi ericla...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to change a polygon island's center axis without moving the points on the attached

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread Eric Lampi
Well said Jeff. Maurice, if you're still reading, please consider his summary of Soft as a Generalists tool, because I feel that he pretty much nails it. Sure perhaps Soft is the closest thing AD has to compete with Houdini, so I understand the particles angle. However if you limit the scope to

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-13 Thread Eric Lampi
I often post animation or FX that I find to be particularly interesting. I have friends who work in many different fields, many of them creative, and that includes Ad Agency account people, Art and Creative Directors, most of whom at one time or another I have gently guided them through some

Re: In case you missed it..

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Lampi
Stefan I'm not sure I understand your logic. You don't recommend anyone learn or buy Soft anymore yet you want people to move from Maya and Max? One of the biggest problems with Soft is the limited number of people who use it well. If you're not explaining to people who inquire about it, and how

Re: A sad day, in this part of the country, for digital artists.

2012-09-10 Thread Eric Lampi
Only if he actually purchased stock in DD with other assets. Essentially, if it was a part of his compensation package, they were free and he didn't lose anything. So he can still pocket whatever 23% of DD's value works out to be when he sells his remaining shares off. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at

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