Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread sc...@turbulenceffects.com
I'm a generalist, let me know how can help. Scott Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-12 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Nice! Thanks for sharing your workflow David! 2014-03-11 18:51 GMT+01:00 David Gallagher davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com: I've done a lot of exporting. I use slightly earlier versions of Maya and Softimage for maximum animator compatibility, so maybe this is easier with later versions of

Re: [OT] : Automated Scribing for White Board Videos

2014-03-12 Thread Alok Gandhi
Just to update, I was able to get something worthwhile using IFX Read and Write Images from Mr. Core. Will update soon with some videos on how I did it. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Alok Gandhi alok.gandhi2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, A midst all the turmoil going on I have a question.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Jens Lindgren
Count me in! I'm a VFX Supervisor with broad knowledge of ICE and compositing in Nuke. /Jens On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:01 AM, sc...@turbulenceffects.com sc...@turbulenceffects.com wrote: I'm a generalist, let me know how can help. Scott Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint

A germ of an idea (new thread)

2014-03-12 Thread Thomas Volkmann
Because this thread is messed-up when browsing the google-group here is a clean one, so no one will miss it. Maybe we can continue here Initial post by Paul Smith: Hi I'm Paul Smith, If you don't know me, I'm an ICE enthusiast, having made around 150 or so tutorials on Vimeo. I also did the

Re: A germ of an idea (new thread)

2014-03-12 Thread Richard Costin
+1 for me On 12 Mar 2014, at 08:29, Thomas Volkmann li...@thomasvolkmann.com wrote: Because this thread is messed-up when browsing the google-group here is a clean one, so no one will miss it. Maybe we can continue here Initial post by Paul Smith: Hi I'm Paul Smith, If you

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Thats would be lovely! In addition to what have been proposed, I was thinking ( since Softimage has been around for a very long time ) to do an action-oriented video thats shows the history of Softimage and all the great stuff that have been made with it- A small T-Rex walks around looking for

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-12 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I'm far from a Maya fanboi, in fact some of the shit I've given Maya was strongly worded enough to peel paint off walls, but with that said I think it's important to not exceed either. Maya has shortcomings when it comes to the user experience, no doubt about it, it will undoubtedly have you in

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Arvid Björn
Of course I'd contribute if there's something that needs tinkering. I'm a cg sup and generalist, leaned towards lighting and shading. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.comwrote: Count me in! I'm a VFX Supervisor with broad knowledge of ICE and compositing

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Just wanted to chime in that I'd love to take part in this! :D Finally my ability in animating with XSI is of some use... But I think the real hard part is: how on earth would we be able to agree on a story and direction for it...? Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/12/2014 2:22 AM, Arvid

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread David Saber
it's only moderately more advanced than manually punching in vertices and edges by indices in a text file Did you forget the humor /humor tags or are you serious?

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Thinking outloud here, I like the after life of pi format, very human very easy to set-up, a camera, a micro, a light. But not every one is an actor, and someone wrote somewhere that animators make their creatures do things they can't do in real life. So an open patchwork aproach is IMHO a

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
It was hyperbole :) On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:56 PM, David Saber davidsa...@sfr.fr wrote: it's only moderately more advanced than manually punching in vertices and edges by indices in a text file Did you forget the humor /humor tags or are you serious? -- Our users will know fear and

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Cristobal Infante
This is interesting: An Artist's Approach to Fur in Houdini 13 https://vimeo.com/88711732 On 12 March 2014 10:06, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.comwrote: It was hyperbole :) On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:56 PM, David Saber davidsa...@sfr.fr wrote: it's only moderately more

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
I think the documentary idea should be put to a different thread, as its really worth doing, but I feel that having multiple ideas in one thread will just serve to confuse all of them. It would be good to show both as one piece if they both get made. The CGI piece could work as a 40 second

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Toonafish
Thats a great idea! And all are walking to the beat of this tune :http://youtu.be/AWtCittJyr0 ;-) -Ronald On 3/12/2014 03:03, Bk wrote: Ok, I can't sleep and have had an idea. I think it would be good to make a visual metaphor of the situation. I've been thinking that we would need to do

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
The over day I started a tut to model a column. Selecting components, it was like having boxing gloves holding the mouse :( And that's not an hyperbole... Le 12/03/2014 11:06, Raffaele Fragapane a écrit : It was hyperbole :) On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:56 PM, David Saber davidsa...@sfr.fr

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Matt Morris
I'm in definitely. If you need stuff animated or rigged happy to help.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Thomas Volkmann
Ok, let's just ignore the cleaned thread :) I'm interested as well! generalist, ICE, comp ...no rigging Sitting opposite to Jens Lindgren's desk. I love Paul's idea. Something short that can go viral is exactly what we need. The Documentation is great as well, but will probably left unnoticed

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Yes, its better to put a lits of all the CG artists and their skills as mentioned by Paul My contribution would be using Facerobot for humanoid faces using a combination of both lipsync and motion capture ( Faceware tech ) Cheers 2014-03-12 11:22 GMT+01:00 Matt Morris matt...@gmail.com: I'm

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
What is the subject or story that the 40s'' cgi piece tells ? Le 12/03/2014 11:10, p...@bustykelp.com a écrit : I think the documentary idea should be put to a different thread, as its really worth doing, but I feel that having multiple ideas in one thread will just serve to confuse all of

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Oscar Juarez
You should have a look at this ones, selecting components is not that bad as it appears. https://vimeo.com/user2030228/videos/page:12/sort:date On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:17 AM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: The over day I started a tut to model a column. Selecting

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Sandy Sutherland
I can try and help where I Can - count me in - will also pass the word around Cape Town and ex-Triggerfish people. S. On 2014/03/12 12:10 PM, p...@bustykelp.com wrote: I think the documentary idea should be put to a different thread, as its really worth doing, but I feel that having multiple

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Heard something about someone digging up Goidzilla, does anyone have the Titanic ? i mean that was done in SI right ? if this is going to be characters converging, it might be a fun idea On 12 March 2014 10:43, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: I can try and help where I Can -

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Griswold
Hey Paul - sorry I didn't list my skills. XSI user since version 4. I'm mainly a generalist. My official title is director/animator, but I do everything from motion graphics to VFX (mainly particles). I agree, there needs to be some definition some sort of leadership. Otherwise it'll get

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
So the idea is to go for super heavy vfx stuf ? Le 12/03/2014 11:46, Sebastien Sterling a écrit : Heard something about someone digging up Goidzilla, does anyone have the Titanic ? i mean that was done in SI right ? if this is going to be characters converging, it might be a fun idea On

RE: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Ola Madsen
Have used XSI since version 1.5 and being a die-hard Softimage evangelist during the years I guess I can't let this slide. So count me in as well. ola Senior 3D Artist and redundant Softimage Certified Instructor

Re: Please contribute: 3D WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
While everybody's making his/her own plans what to do next, it would seem to as good a time as any to remind you all of Olivers initiative http://www.3dwillneverbethesame.com/ which should eventually become an impressive tribute to Softimage. To reach this goal, however, more input is needed.

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Griswold
It does seem to take a lot more effort for certain things. I'm intrigued by the everything's procedural idea, but quite often I just want to select an edge loop bevel it - or grab points and quickly drag them around (Softimage's M key). As I've gone through some Houdini tutorials, I don't think

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
Well, my suggestion for the brief is that it should 1 – demonstrate powerfully that there is a lot of people around the world using this tool and care about it enough to do this film for free 1a - Show that we are prepared to make a stand and not take this lying down 2 – Show off the wide

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Oscar Juarez
Yeah for that kind of thing is not even close to Softimage, I wouldn't use Houdini for modeling with an Artistic approach. But maybe with the possible new influx of users there might be some changes there. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Ok thank's. We have a guide line now. (Sorry I saw you already posted this) Personnaly I think I know how I coud treat this as erasing dust vanishing a drawing and going somewhere. Le 12/03/2014 12:06, p...@bustykelp.com a écrit : Well, my suggestion for the brief is that it should 1 –

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Daniel Sweeney
I think Pauls idea works, because as stated it can be broken down into chunks for different people/studios to do individual shots for it, then cut together to show the wider scope of what can be created in softimage by small/medium teams in shorter amount of time than it would in other software.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Hi Paul, You might want to throw this idea at the si-community as well, unless you want it to be a Mailing List exclusive. ;) Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue – Administrator @, NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
I think that's a good idea as long as its not going to split people up. I dont want people having to search around to see where we are up to. -Original Message- From: Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A germ of

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Doeke Wartena
someone mentioned dropbox as well. It's a bit early for that but as soon content gets created bittorrent is really awsome: http://www.bittorrent.com/ Since there is no limit in size. There can be a read token and a write token. Everybody with the write token can write files. And if your online

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
p...@bustykelp.com schreef op 12-3-2014 12:36: I think that's a good idea as long as its not going to split people up. I dont want people having to search around to see where we are up to. You can still base it on the Mailing List (anybody can join), but those not following the List often have

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Christian Lattuada
Sounds good to me. I can model backgroud asset since I'm not a td or technical guy. I'll joining the list as weel. .:. Christian Lattuada On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:06 PM, p...@bustykelp.com wrote: Well, my suggestion for the brief is that it should 1 - demonstrate

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Jordi Bares
The modelling part has been massively left behind the rest of the application, today I would use Softimage to model but this is changing and I am know Side Effects are listening. Just look at their Forum and you will see a SI Users sub-forum to discuss things. My feeling is that Autodesk may

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Jordi Bares schreef op 12-3-2014 12:59: Just look at their Forum and you will see a SI Users sub-forum to discuss things. Them having set up a sub-forum for SI-users needn't mean that they're listening, though... :p -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue –

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Something is better than nothing ;) Le 12/03/2014 13:05, Leendert A. Hartog a écrit : Jordi Bares schreef op 12-3-2014 12:59: Just look at their Forum and you will see a SI Users sub-forum to discuss things. Them having set up a sub-forum for SI-users needn't mean that they're listening,

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Cole
This is the most productive idea I have read on this list in a while, count me in. Rendering, Lighting, Shading. Regards, Robert

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Eugene Flormata
I agree with bittorrent sync. It's like an unlimited size Dropbox. The issue would be if we peeps were rendering a buncha gi cache files and exrs. Although there's no version control really. And worse case scenario someone deletes all the files. Paul maybe do the honours of creating a google

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
i don't doubt that they do listen, my remark was about instating the sub-forum signifying nothing as such. Look at the Area, the official Softimage forum has had hardly anyone from AD listening ever... Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue – Administrator

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Jordi Bares
he he he… wait and see. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 12 Mar 2014, at 12:05, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Jordi Bares schreef op 12-3-2014 12:59: Just look at their Forum and you will see a SI Users sub-forum to discuss things. Them having set up a sub-forum for

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
I would love to participate, shading and lighting if needed. A great idea and the kind of mentality that is needed right now. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Eugene Flormata eug...@flormata.comwrote: I agree with bittorrent sync. It's like an unlimited size Dropbox. The issue would be if

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread AlessioAgosti
On 12-Mar-14 1:41 PM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: I would love to participate, shading and lighting if needed. A great idea and the kind of mentality that is needed right now. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Eugene Flormata eug...@flormata.com mailto:eug...@flormata.com wrote: I agree

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Mirko Jankovic
had recently issues with bittorent sync, it was syncing but overwrite newr files with older ones. It is tightly connected to time and date and location, having multiple users in different time zones. only 1 setup wrongly and it could create a mess with files so be careful with that one. honestly

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Francisco Criado
For project management , i would recomend https://www.teamwork.com/ Used it in various projects with a lot of people involved and must say is a great tool, simple, great for assigning tasks, reviewing and everybody involved can see who is participating in the project and their function and tasks.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Doeke Wartena
Count me in. Just for ideas! I'm having a great chat with paul now :) lots of funny ideas :) 2014-03-12 13:44 GMT+01:00 Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com: For project management , i would recomend https://www.teamwork.com/ Used it in various projects with a lot of people involved and

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Doeke Wartena
I never had problems with bittorent but it's good you mention it. Teamwork sounds also nice but not as storage. I don't know if someone can set up an ftp. If we get an ftp we should backup as well so if our ftp dies the project won't die. For the rest, this project is gonne be awsome :)

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Jason S
I think that's pretty cool ! And not necessarily all that ambitious. (1 effect / character each) and as suggested it could be the beginning and the end of the Life after XSI doc peice. So How about this... *For the Intro.. * (almost as proposed) Characters could all start coming out of XSI

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nuno Conceicao
Great idea Paul Here is our portfolio (http://www.illusive.pt/film/work.html ) and If you like our work you can send us the animation and we can deal with lighting and compositing. (I have plenty experience on that field) We can also collaborate with animation, modeling and texturing too...

[OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Leonard Koch
Hey everyone, I rewrote a component from one of my Plugins in Fabric Engine. This video shows the outcome: https://vimeo.com/88867023 I'm very impressed. In the video I also answer a question I've been getting some emails about in the past few days: What is going to happen to my tools? I'm going

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Ed Manning
Good idea, Paul. I'm up for contributing, schedule permitting! VFX supervision, middleweight ICE FX-y stuff, and shading/lighting/rendering, especially if you'd like to see some stuff done in Redshift. http://www.linkedin.com/in/etmthree/ has a lot of links to recent (and older) work. Anyone

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Eric Turman
Thanks Leonard! That was an impressively small bit of code compared to the ICE tree. -=Eric Turman On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.comwrote: Hey everyone, I rewrote a component from one of my Plugins in Fabric Engine. This video shows the outcome:

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Mirko Jankovic
small Q. for us normal users that are not into coding. with all things happening plus busy schedule never enough time to test new candy but does that mean that we need to get fabric, get splice and can start using tools that are made and ported? ofc right now FE is more interesting to coders to

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Hi Paul, I would like to help, I'm a XSI generalist since Softimage XSI 4, I have a degree in Design also. My skills: - Modeling; - Shading / Lighting: - Render, Mental Ray / Arnold; - Particles / Simulations; - Comp; - Graphic Design; I think this project should focus on the best tools of

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Matthew Graves
Hi I like this idea Paul. There seems to be a lot of people already in but I will throw my hat it to. I can do ICE Fx and Problem solving and other such cool stuff. (also thanks Paul for the invaluable tutorial videos) Matt On 12 March 2014 14:01, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Good

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Wow ! Le 12/03/2014 14:20, Leonard Koch a écrit : Hey everyone, I rewrote a component from one of my Plugins in Fabric Engine. This video shows the outcome: https://vimeo.com/88867023 I'm very impressed. In the video I also answer a question I've been getting some emails about in the past few

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Mirko Jankovic
I do have a nice team of people here covering all sort of tasks but unfortunately too bussy for the next couple months to take on anything else on side... But if you need some rendering with Redshift i can help out, got couple licences and couple nice GPU render ready comps so can at least free

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Eric Thivierge
Yes if you want to play with the stuff that is created with it, you need to get Fabric. However you need to remember that Fabric gives you 1 free license to each user so it costs nothing other than some time to install it. Not that much time. Fabric is a framework to build tools on so you're

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Sounds great. My programming days are long gone.. like a bit over 10 years since I made last c++ lines of code :) But I do have great programmer guy here that is right now focused on some other stuff but could get grasp of this as well so looking into giving him a shot. Thanks! On Wed, Mar 12,

RE: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Raff, You are referring to poly modeling I take it? How is its NURBS modeling today? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-12 Thread Cristobal Infante
always good to look at some great work coming out of houdini when you start loosing hope: http://www.deskriptiv.de/ On 12 March 2014 14:34, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Raff, You are referring to poly modeling I take it? How is its NURBS modeling

OT: Music for Pooby's protest film

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Griswold
I was talking to a friend about the Softimage situation. He's not in the industry (works in the medical field). After I'd explained the situation and had mentioned the Lego Movie, he replied to me Everything is awesome.. Everything is cool when you're part of a team. Now, thinking about Paul's

Re: OT: Music for Pooby's protest film

2014-03-12 Thread Greg Punchatz
Indeed On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I was talking to a friend about the Softimage situation. He's not in the industry (works in the medical field). After I'd explained the situation and had mentioned the Lego Movie, he

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-12 Thread John Richard Sanchez
I highly recommend the Jason Schliefer Rigging Bundle as well as the books The art of Rigging Volume 1 and 2 if you can find them. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm far from a Maya fanboi, in fact some of the shit I've given Maya was

Re: OT: Music for Pooby's protest film

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Or possibly put music to Chinny's famous attempt at writing lyrics: The future of Softimage is bright... click The future of Softimage is bright... click The future of Softimage is bright... click The future of Softimage is bright... click The future of Softimage is bright... click The future of

Re: Numbers...

2014-03-12 Thread Mikael Pettersén
And make sure that they include all their Entertainment Suite-customers. It always annoyed the hell out of me that I suddenly became a Maya dude that got Softimage as a bonus tool when it really was the other way around. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Sebastien Sterling

Re: OT: Music for Pooby's protest film

2014-03-12 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Autodesk is wonderful Autodesk is bright Me neither... --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-12 9:10 GMT-06:00 Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl: Or possibly put music to Chinny's famous attempt at writing lyrics:

Re: Numbers...

2014-03-12 Thread Jens Lindgren
Haha, I totally agree with you Mikael. I also became a 3ds max customer when I just wanted max as a conversion plugin to Softimage. /Jens On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Mikael Pettersén mikael.petter...@gmail.com wrote: And make sure that they include all their Entertainment

Re: OT: Music for Pooby's protest film

2014-03-12 Thread Francisco Criado
Just typed autodesk song on youtube...ouch! F. 2014-03-12 12:19 GMT-03:00 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: Autodesk is wonderful Autodesk is bright Me neither... --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-12 9:10

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Francisco Criado
Found this wonderful video that could be useful for the documentary part of life after softimage highly recomended from minute 7:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-4JpeSF_2g 2014-03-12 11:28 GMT-03:00 Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com: I do have a nice team of people here covering all

Re: Alessio Agosti,Softimage XSI Character TD and Tools Development

2014-03-12 Thread Alan Fregtman
No link to a reel or blog or anything? On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:31 AM, AlessioAgosti ombr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Character TD/Tools dev At your orders, sirs Just contact me and show what the real ppl can do! -- Alessio Agosti Softimage XSI Character TD and Tools Development

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
Wow so that’s 41 people so far!! I never imagined this would happen. Its also rather intimidating. I certainly can’t lead this on my own, so who would like to help coordinate it? I’d also like to nail the basis for the idea down soon or we’ll be all over the place. This is my idea, cleaned up

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Sounds like a good idea. Let's go with it!!! Too much discussion about the story at this point will only undo the whole project IMHO. Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue – Administrator @, NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Francisco Criado
love it, like the idea showing its worlwide through different iconic places over the world, and iconic characters from different softimage productions is great too. have you checked the link i sent about teamwork? i dont have problem helping in coordination! F. 2014-03-12 12:37 GMT-03:00

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nika Ragua
yo, raps, somehow i missed the fun ))) i would join FOR SURE, even i will sweep the floors i can do ICE, some modeling(middle level), and i think i can write a scenario - if you guys will want to do something other than potpourri or how softimage is good and AD is bad, heh 2014-03-12 19:33

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
at 7:40 I start to vomit... Le 12/03/2014 16:33, Francisco Criado a écrit : Found this wonderful video that could be useful for the documentary part of life after softimage highly recomended from minute 7:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-4JpeSF_2g 2014-03-12 11:28 GMT-03:00 Mirko

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Christian Lattuada
I like it, and Greg is a welcome one to start with. .:. Christian Lattuada On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:37 PM, p...@bustykelp.com wrote: Wow so that's 41 people so far!! I never imagined this would happen. Its also rather intimidating. I certainly can't lead this on my own,

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Have you finish your tut ? ; Le 12/03/2014 16:46, Nika Ragua a écrit : yo, raps, somehow i missed the fun ))) i would join FOR SURE, even i will sweep the floors i can do ICE, some modeling(middle level), and i think i can write a scenario - if you guys will want to do something other than

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Rares Halmagean
Just wanted to point out, you've got my skill-set description misplaced under Richard Costin's. On 3/12/2014 5:10 AM, p...@bustykelp.com wrote: I think the documentary idea should be put to a different thread, as its really worth doing, but I feel that having multiple ideas in one thread will

RE: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Angus Davidson
I really second that it would be great to have a few apps that people can use out the box when testing and seeing how they were put together. I know a lot of the stuff that does get developed will be in house only, but the more things that get released into the wild as it were the more folks

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Marshall
I'm happy to contribute any way I can

Re: Alessio Agosti,Softimage XSI Character TD and Tools Development

2014-03-12 Thread Eric Thivierge
He's that awesome apparently. :P Just kidding. Please share your reel! On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:37:40 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote: No link to a reel or blog or anything? On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:31 AM, AlessioAgosti ombr...@gmail.com mailto:ombr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Character

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Marshall
ICEy bits, modeling, anything. On 12 March 2014 15:56, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: I'm happy to contribute any way I can

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
Oh sorry about that.. I’ll fix it From: Rares Halmagean Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 3:56 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A germ of an idea. Just wanted to point out, you've got my skill-set description misplaced under Richard Costin's. On 3/12/2014 5:10 AM,

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
My contribution would be Icy things, rather motion design though, and some knowledge in rendering (Redshift in the pocket) Le 12/03/2014 17:02, Chris Marshall a écrit : ICEy bits, modeling, anything. On 12 March 2014 15:56, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
Updated list now at 45 artists 1 Paul Smith Generalist, ICE skills and character / mocap and animation 2 Artur Wozniak3D Generalist, non-character animation, rendering, some nuke, VFX 3 Perry Harovas I am a generalist, but have good modeling skills and lighting/rendering skills.

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Helge Mathee
Hey guys, just as a side not for those of you normal users who are not into coding, we did discuss visual programming several times internally and with clients, it has come up. There's no roadmap for it yet (or release dates), but it is certainly something we'll look into in the future (at some

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Expectations are pretty low, it should just look like Ice, it send bifrost to stone age and eliminate the necessity of Houdini. Le 12/03/2014 17:14, Helge Mathee a écrit : Hey guys, just as a side not for those of you normal users who are not into coding, we did discuss visual programming

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Doyle
No problem - it's all in next week's release. Minus a few minor features... On 12 March 2014 12:23, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: Expectations are pretty low, it should just look like Ice, it send bifrost to stone age and eliminate the necessity of Houdini. Le 12/03/2014

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Sounds great!!! Hopefully users too will start to do some basic and advanced tutorials in order to have a better idea of whats going of behind the framework, so at least, even if you're not a coder, you have an idea of whats going on. 2014-03-12 17:14 GMT+01:00 Helge Mathee helge.mat...@gmx.net:

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Ed Manning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM I wonder if David Lewandowski used Soft for this... would be lovely to include.

Re: [OT] A Case for Fabric Engine

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Doyle
On a serious note - there will be visual programming capabilities in the new data flow graph, but stage one of that will not have a visual programming system for writing KL. Think of it more like ICE at the scenegraph level. We are now discussing the visual programming requirements for authoring

Re: Softimage Has Been Killed, the Future of CG Softwares Is Now in TD's Hands

2014-03-12 Thread Christopher Crouzet
I didn't manage to contact the author yet to check if it was a HOAX or not but check out the comment #2 by Brad Hielbert: [...] Since their bankruptcy, the new owners are going to be taking RHs in house software and making it availbe to the public. IT is brilliant software that FAR out paces the

Re: Softimage Has Been Killed, the Future of CG Softwares Is Now in TD's Hands

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Doyle
I just pinged Brad to ask him - I'll let you know if he gets back to me (or he may contact you directly) On 12 March 2014 12:33, Christopher Crouzet christopher.crou...@gmail.comwrote: I didn't manage to contact the author yet to check if it was a HOAX or not but check out the comment #2 by

Re: Softimage Has Been Killed, the Future of CG Softwares Is Now in TD's Hands

2014-03-12 Thread Christopher Crouzet
Sweet, thanks Paul! On 12 March 2014 11:36, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: I just pinged Brad to ask him - I'll let you know if he gets back to me (or he may contact you directly) On 12 March 2014 12:33, Christopher Crouzet christopher.crou...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't manage

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
C4D I'd say. Le 12/03/2014 17:26, Ed Manning a écrit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM I wonder if David Lewandowski used Soft for this... would be lovely to include.

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