RE: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Congratulations guys, I loved the style and the whole stuff! I hope there will be some breakdown also. And, as a character artist, I'd like to see more characters as well! By the way, MD is quite pricey, isn't it? As I tested it's the best cloth stuff compared to anything I have ever seen, but

Re: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Anderson
totally agree! softimage is an amazing product and ICE is truly revolutionary. I would love to see Softimage pushed more on the Autodesk marketing stratergy On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Nick Angus wrote: > Sorry folks, it was out of my control as I was recently added as a guest > speaker. I

Re: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Nick Angus
Sorry folks, it was out of my control as I was recently added as a guest speaker. I am really trying to push Soft as a major component of the Ecs, instead of the low profile it seems to occupy right now. My vibe from within Autodesk is they take it very seriously as a product, I just think it

RE: [ICE] random tip about array-per-array ops

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Chia
Nice compound out there... :D -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Fabricio Chamon Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: [ICE] random tip about arra

Re: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Anderson
Yeah, thought it might be next week/month :\ On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Yeah I'd love to go but not enough notice for a lot of us down here to > come out. :\ > > > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > > > > On Thu,

Re: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Thivierge
Yeah I'd love to go but not enough notice for a lot of us down here to come out. :\ Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Sofronis Efstathiou < sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk> wrote: > Might be Worth contacting Damie

Re: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Upinder Dhaliwal
Found this from google http://www.stormfx.com.au/events/event/21-autodesk-blockbuser-tour-2012.html *Sydney* Date: 5 July 2012, Thursday Time: 1:00pm to 5:30pm Venue: Shangri-La Hotel , Heritage Room 176 Cumberland Street, The Rocks Cheers, *Upinder Dhaliwal* | Character Animator / Rigger www.up

Re: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Sofronis Efstathiou
Might be Worth contacting Damien Gascoigne from UTS if you are looking to attract representatives from Education. Let me know offline if you want an email. As mentioned, I'm sure Animal Logic would love to attend...loads of them are on this list... Sofronis Efstathiou Senior Practise Fellow C

Re: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Anderson
Hey thanks for the mail Sandy, Hi Nick sounds great whats the date? On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Sandy Sutherland < sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za> wrote: > Pretty sure some of the Animal Logic guys would be keen - I know Simon > would from there - hope he sees this on the list - will for

Re: Calling all Momentum experts!

2012-07-04 Thread Dan Yargici
Yes, great to hear, thanks Chris. DAN On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Thanks Chris. > > > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Chris Chia wrote: > >> Sorry for the delay. >> Yes, I a

Re: International "SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012" meeting on Friday, September 28th 2012

2012-07-04 Thread Fabricio Chamon
nice! thanks everyone for the extra effort of making it in english. I'm sure many will appreciate and learn from the presentations!

International "SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012" meeting on Friday, September 28th 2012

2012-07-04 Thread Oliver Weingarten
Hello there! *SOFTIMAGE|UeberTage 2012 will take place on Friday, September 28th 2012 in Siegen/Germany once again! *There are some new things though: *The biggest change will be, that from now on the "official" language of our meeting will be English. So international guest are widely welcom

RE: Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Sandy Sutherland
Pretty sure some of the Animal Logic guys would be keen - I know Simon would from there - hope he sees this on the list - will forward it to him in case. S. _ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _ __

Autodesk Blockbuster Tour

2012-07-04 Thread Nick Angus
Just a quick note, I am a guest speaker on the Autodesk blockbuster tour, along with Alex Kim from ILM and Ian Failes from Rising Sun Pictures. I have a very short 20 minute guest spot, but will be talking about how I am pushing our company to a Softimage pipeline. Everyone else talks about Maya,

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Ciaran Moloney
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Steven Caron wrote: > is mario ucci still there? cause i think i see his hand in every > character... and all of the characters are awesome! (not just modeling, > animation, and shading too!) You're right. Good eye! > As I recall there was a specific reason

RE: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-04 Thread Brent McPherson
Hi Ahmidou, Yes, the problem is that if a single ICE tree is driving multiple kines then it gets evaluated multiple times as each kine pulls on their connection to the ICE tree. The recommended way of dealing with this is to write to local data (self.myxfo) in the master ICE tree and then have

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Sajjad Amjad
I can confirm the statement about MD :-) On 4 July 2012 11:37, Simon Reeves wrote: > Great job! That Marvelous Designer looks pretty magic > > > Simon Reeves > Freelance 3D VFX Artist > > London, UK > *email: si...@simonreeves.com* > *website: http://www.simonreeves.com* > * > * > > > > On 4 Jul

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hi Mirko, Thanks. The cost of Arnold is a bit much for a studio our size. We found V-Ray to be an entirely capable (read better) replacement of MR. As I recall there was a specific reason we used Arnold to render Naiad sims, not sure though, perhaps Ciaran can explain. On 4 July 2012 11:22, Mirk

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Reeves
Great job! That Marvelous Designer looks pretty magic Simon Reeves Freelance 3D VFX Artist London, UK *email: si...@simonreeves.com* *website: http://www.simonreeves.com* * * On 4 July 2012 11:22, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > Any reason why not Arnold for all rendering? just curious :) > And to j

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Any reason why not Arnold for all rendering? just curious :) And to join congratulations, amazing work! On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Sajjad Amjad wrote: > Hi Guys, > Just confirming some of the stuff said previously. We used: > - Softimage as the primary 3D app with V-Ray (no MR), lots of ICE

Exporting a curve in a DotXsi...

2012-07-04 Thread David Saber
Hi all! If I go to file > export > dot xsi , I can export a nurb curve , when I re-open the exported DotXsi, the curve shows up. But using the latest Crosswalk, it does not work. I thought Crosswalk was the latest version of the DotXsi exporter, shouldn’t it have all the features of the old expor

Re: bbc olympics titles

2012-07-04 Thread Sajjad Amjad
Hi Guys, Just confirming some of the stuff said previously. We used: - Softimage as the primary 3D app with V-Ray (no MR), lots of ICE (as expected) - Some 3DS Max for FumeFx - Marvelous Designer for all the Cloth (no Syflex) - Naiad for fluids (rendered with Arnold) Cheers, Sajjad On 4 July 201

Re: Calling all Momentum experts!

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Thivierge
Thanks Chris. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Chris Chia wrote: > Sorry for the delay. > Yes, I am in the loop... Will discuss this with the team. Many thanks! > > Chris > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.a

RE: Calling all Momentum experts!

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Chia
Sorry for the delay. Yes, I am in the loop... Will discuss this with the team. Many thanks! Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andi Farhall Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 6:35 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subje

Re: Caching ICE

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Lampi
Did you change the start time to -25 in your environment settings too? On Jul 4, 2012 3:33 AM, "Szabolcs Matefy" wrote: > Hey guys > > ** ** > > Is it common that I can’t cache anything prior to frame 0? I have an ICE > Syflex cloth that I want to cache from -25 (pretoll stuff, just the cloth

Re: ICE kineamtics performances ?

2012-07-04 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
I ran some more tests, it consist of the same compound duplicated four times , each one driving an SRT: Per object ice tree 49 fps One Ice tree for calculation and per object Ice tree to drive srt 41 fps multiple ice trees under t

Re: Caching ICE

2012-07-04 Thread Vincent Ullmann
Did you set the "First-Frame"-Value in the Syflex-Cloth-Compund to the right Value? ( http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/userguide/index.html?url=files/GUID-1873AC45-01F6-46A0-AA0E-83DD81961A5E.htm,topicNumber=d30e313187 )

Re: Caching ICE

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Thivierge
Is your simulatino environment set to -25 as well? Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Szabolcs Matefy wrote: > Hey guys > > ** ** > > Is it common that I can’t cache anything prior to frame 0? I have an ICE >

Caching ICE

2012-07-04 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Hey guys Is it common that I can't cache anything prior to frame 0? I have an ICE Syflex cloth that I want to cache from -25 (pretoll stuff, just the cloth getting the starting look), but if I set the simulation start frame to -25 in the cache manager nothing happens... Cheers Szabol