Opps, this last email was intended for the global pipeline vfx group. Sorry if I confused yall! :-)
Dan On Sep 29, 2011 10:51 AM, "Dan Walker" <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, brings back memories of trying to create a group that would be open to > collaborate/share tools, ideas, workflows, pipeline, etc... > > I put together a "Siggraph - Birds of a Feather" primarily for Maya/Linux in > 2001/2002. The goal was to talk, share, discuss issues mentioned above and > at this point in our industry, we all were in the midst of transitioning > from SGI to Linux. Many issues at this time regarding video cards, movie > libraries, ability to play movies on Linux systems.... The list went on and > on, hence my frustration and being at a studio 2000 miles away from > Hollywood didn't help. > > We had Alias/Wavefront product managers, Pipelinefx (Qube), ILM, Dreamworks, > PDI, R&H, DD Sups and TD's there. It was great, but my execution on follow > up and creating a forum or venue to continue discussions didn't come to > mind, until it was too late. Fizzle fizzle fizzle, poof. So, all of that > effort went the way of the dinos. > > Kinda bums me out, because everyone seemed on-board with the concept and one > of the larger studios (I believe Dreamworks) had been talking about > releasing some movie libs, codec's and what have you, into the Linux Open > Source domain. We (new adopters of the Linux platform) couldn't play movies > in any format! So, who do we rely on, to get this working? IRIDAS Frame > Cycler was also in Beta at the time and they were the only ones that had > promise. Fcheck was about the fanciest img viewing product out there. At > this time, Dreamworks had quiet a lot of time and money invested in Linux, > thanks to Ed Leonard. > > Anyway, just wanted to say, there is hope, but there's gotta be a conscious > effort to get others involved in something as big as standardizing anything > industry wide. Emails flying around and forums are good but not good > enough. You have to contact and involve the Big Hitter's, not only on > forums and emails but in person at events that ACM Siggraph and VFX Society > hold. > > Good luck in your efforts!!!!!!! > > > -Dan Walker > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected] >wrote: > >> Just a side note on this. There was a cool panel at siggraph about global >> vfx pipelines. A few of the speakers talked about standardizing metadata >> collected on set and used in the studio pipelines for consistency when >> working across multiple studios. Also working with companies like shotgun >> to use this template to map data so you can more easily move assets between >> companies. >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/global-vfx-pipelines >> >> Sam Richards said he was going to publish his google docs template of his >> proposal. >> >> -deke >> >> On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:41, Ron Ganbar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Looks good. Thanks! >> >> >> Ron Ganbar >> email: <[email protected]>[email protected] >> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK] >> +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel] >> url: <http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/>http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> >> On 25 September 2011 12:26, Ilya Lindberg < <[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> You can try this <http://www.drylab.no/cam_report/features/> >>> http://www.drylab.no/cam_report/features/ >>> Helped me a lot when I worked on set, after gathering all the information >>> and synchronization are available online printable version. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ilya Lindberg - <http://clients.shotty.ru>clients.shotty.ru - vfx & >>> animation for film and commercials >>> >>> On Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Ron Ganbar wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>> Unrelated to Nuke - hope I'm not seriously breaking any rules. >>> >>> Anybody has a data gathering template (printable) for on set supervision? >>> Just something convenient for storing camera info, fg location, etc per >>> shot. >>> >>> Much appreciated. >>> >>> >>> Ron Ganbar >>> email: <[email protected]>[email protected] >>> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK] >>> +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel] >>> url: <http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/>http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> <[email protected]>[email protected] , >>> <http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk>http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> <http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users> >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> <[email protected]>[email protected] , >>> <http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/>http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> <http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users> >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], <http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/> >> http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>
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