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/
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