Long live soft ...breaks my heart.
Le 07/03/2014 08:09, Cristobal Infante a écrit :
he works at Lagoa:
http://home.lagoa.com/team/
On Friday, 7 March 2014, Gideon Klindt <gideon.kli...@gmail.com
<mailto:gideon.kli...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Well, he swung by PDX on the last AD tour along with their other
reps. Needless to say, he was the best presenter, not just because
he actually was entertaining, but because he actually did an
honest demo (aka he knows how to use the software). Could not say
that about the other two demonstrators for MAX and Maya.
I'm sure Mark will land somewhere that can appreciate his talent
and humor. Maybe it's time for another road trip in the van to get
away from it all.
I hate to ask this on a tribute to Mark thread...but what ever
happened to Chinney- where did he end up?
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Davidson
<magic...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Wherever Mark lands, they will be very fortunate.
I had the pleasure of working with Mark, prior to his
being the "XSI demo guy".
It was a blast.
Great guy. I wish him well.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Alan Fregtman
<alan.fregt...@gmail.com> wrote:
Pasting into the list for posterity (because I'm sure the
blog's gonna go offline any time now.)
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Thanks for all your brilliance!!
Posted by Mark Schoennagel, 19 hours ago
Hello fellow Softies,
Well I'm sure you all read the news yesterday that our
beloved Softimage is officially being retired by Autodesk.
Since tomorrow will also be my last day on the job, I
thought I would write you all a little note thanking you
for almost 30 years of brilliant work and dedication to
Softimage! From the "Pseudopod "in the Abyss back in 89'
which happened to be the first ever 3D character to grace
the silver screen, all the way to the wickedly cool work
Animal Logic just finished up for the new Lego Movie,
Softimage has truly been a revolutionary tool in our
industry.
Well I guess for most of us it's not really a tool now is
it? It's more like a religion whose brand get tattooed on
your sleeve... it's the oil to someone else's watercolor,
hell it's the reason many of us get out of bed in the
morning!... There is really nothing quite like our
industry and our vastly different, but oh-so similar
softwares , er- I mean religions now is there?? I guess
that's why I have been so proud to be your Softimage
evangelist these past 20 years because what I've witnessed
has been truly humbling and pretty damn mind-blowing all
the same!!
Thinking about the past, it's quite funny looking back at
just how far we've come... When I first joined Softimage
in 1994 Microsoft was our proud new owner, Inverse
Kinematics was still rather new, Mental Ray for Soft was
wowing us with volumetric lights (well sorta), and the
environment variable to exceed 30,000 polygons in a scene
was introduced! Reflecting on all that I'm not even sure
how to put those years of product and technology
development into perspective. Last year I saw Whiskey
Tree in San Rafael using Softimage to create single scenes
for the film Elysium with over 3,000,000,000,000
polygons!!! (that's Trillllllion, not billion, not million
but T-Trrillllionnn) Or how about The Mill's PETA
advertisement with those amazing apes?!?... you just can't
help but be left in awe at how far we have come. So to
all of you Softimage artists and TD's out there who
pushed, and to those who will continue to push the
envelope congrats and THANK YOU!
So with that how about instead of turning this post into a
bunch of negativity and complaining how about we raise a
glass and give praise to the best damn 3D animation
software ever created!!! Softimage!! Long Live Soft!!!
PS, I mentioned a few projects, if you're curious, here
are some great links:
The technology pipleline that Whiskey Tree used for their
work in Elysian. This is obviously not from the film but
gives you an idea! How friggin awesome is that!??!
https://vimeo.com/71148018
I hope you the crew at Animal Logic wins an Oscar for this
one too like they did for Happy Feet!!
--
Gideon D. Klindt
gideonklindt.com <http://gideonklindt.com>
