Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-16 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Didn't notice ;-) 2014-03-15 21:25 GMT+01:00 Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com: there had been discussion of the same thing in Si-community: http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=26t=4947 I think it's a good idea of developers are up for it and there is demand for the

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-15 Thread Arman Sernaz
My studio is planning to keep using Softimage and doing researchs with Fabric Engine as long as I'm not convinced that I can do better with the rest. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: For me the main problem is still that AD would never sell Softimage to

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-15 Thread Leonard Koch
Yeah Olivier, I think that is how bothj Eric's emTopolizer and my LK Fabric came about. If we could set something like you guys are suggesting up it would be amazing. There is nothing I'd rather do than build tools for the community all day. On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Arman Sernaz

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-15 Thread Cristobal Infante
there had been discussion of the same thing in Si-community: http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=26t=4947 I think it's a good idea of developers are up for it and there is demand for the tool. On Saturday, 15 March 2014, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah

Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Hi guys, This is maybe not the best time to write about this, but maybe something good could be done about this idea. Looking around si-community and here as well I saw a lot of topics regarding How to and Help me with in order to achieve a goal. This is perfectly fine and on both communities

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Nika Ragua
i`m very interested - because i somehow not damanded as i wish to be ))) ahahaha and i love to do this kind of stuff, yet i`m visual programming limited - do not want to mess with code - so ICE, VEX, FE when they do it. aaah, better late than never 2014-03-14 13:51 GMT+04:00 Nicolas Esposito

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Arman Sernaz
In order to keep things well organized, a special web site which is dedicated for this purpose may be a good idea. I'm willing to contribute as much as I can to kickstart this project. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nika Ragua nikaragu...@gmail.com wrote: i`m very interested - because i

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread olivier jeannel
The idea is fantastic. Though, I think asking this directly to Eric Mootz or Leonard Koch is already possible (if I'm not totaly wrong) Le 14/03/2014 11:26, Arman Sernaz a écrit : In order to keep things well organized, a special web site which is dedicated for this purpose may be a good idea.

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Yes, I thought that they might accept specific workflow tools and I think that many artists do that as well ( kind of TD for hiring temporarely ) The main focus would be to do that not as a single element, but the request would be asked ( and founded ) by a group of people who are interested in

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Paul Doyle
Just FYI we have a muscle system coming for Fabric in the next couple of months and it will be accessible via the Splice API within Softimage and will be customizable/extensible. On 14 March 2014 09:03, Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I thought that they might accept specific

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Nicolas Esposito
I just crapped my pants :-D 2014-03-14 14:11 GMT+01:00 Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com: Just FYI we have a muscle system coming for Fabric in the next couple of months and it will be accessible via the Splice API within Softimage and will be customizable/extensible. On 14 March 2014

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Angus Davidson
We are an excitable bunch ;) From: Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.commailto:3dv...@gmail.com Reply-To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Friday 14 March 2014 at 3:27 PM To:

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Indeed ;-) 2014-03-14 14:29 GMT+01:00 Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za: We are an excitable bunch ;) From: Nicolas Esposito 3dv...@gmail.com Reply-To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Friday 14 March 2014 at 3:27 PM To:

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread peter_b
Hi Paul I secretly hope you have confcalls or chats with the other 3rd party developers ( you know who you are ), about the recent announcement and changes it will cause – testing the waters if there is some positive initiative that could come out of this. It’s a bleak outlook long term, but

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Greg Punchatz
I like the idea, I was thinking along the same lines but much BIGGER. Let's kick the shit of Autodesk at their own game...3d development. I think we should set up this has a PUBLIC challenge, us agasinst Autodesk Maya dev team, in a development death match. Thinking this would go much further in

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Stephen Davidson
I actually used this list, to hire a TD, for a project that I was working on. I had not learned any ICE, and I was in no way a programmer, so I put out a request, on this list, for anyone who could TD the project for me. I got a fast response from Jimmy Gass. It was a project that required a crowd

Re: Proposal for TDs and Artist - Expand Softimage ( and other ) tools

2014-03-14 Thread Nicolas Esposito
For me the main problem is still that AD would never sell Softimage to anyone, because they know they fucked it up, and they know for sure if SideFX or The Foundry will buy Soft, they will literally kick out Maya and Max in a couple of years. Regarding the subscription renewal I completely agree