OT: Do you belong to VES or any other association / guild for VFX / 3d compositing?

2015-06-11 Thread Pierre Schiller
Friends, does anyone have a guild or association that will represent you all as 3d producer o cg compositors? Maybe official documentation on state laws or anything that will stand for producers/animators/cg fx rights? Any information would be welcomed. Thanks. I am seriously evaluating the big

Re: OT: Do you belong to VES or any other association / guild for VFX / 3d compositing?

2015-06-11 Thread Pierre Schiller
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-life-pi-titanic-vfx-426182 Here´s a link to set us all on the same page. What do you think about this review? Cheers. David. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Pierre Schiller activemotionpictu...@gmail.com wrote: Friends, does anyone have a guild or

RE: Virtual Apps

2015-06-11 Thread Angus Davidson
Most of our university accountancy runs so totally against reality its scary. I was almost fired on my first day by calling someone (who later turned our CFO) an idiot to their face, We can only use a cloud if its local. We had a trial of shotgun (which is a great piece of kit) but it was

RE: Virtual Apps

2015-06-11 Thread Sofronis Efstathiou
Universities here in the UK are mostly going through a transition of stupidity. I feel your pain... Sent from my Android phone using Symantec TouchDown (www.symantec.com) -Original Message- From: Angus Davidson [angus.david...@wits.ac.za] Received: Thursday, 11 Jun 2015, 18:24 To:

RE: Virtual Apps

2015-06-11 Thread Angus Davidson
While scary to contemplate, knowing I am not the only person trying to swim against the idiocy is comforting ;) From: Sofronis Efstathiou [sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk] Sent: 11 June 2015 07:43 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Virtual

RE: Virtual Apps

2015-06-11 Thread Marc-Andre Carbonneau
And it's probably a big factor as to why we see more and more online courses... Actually, is there an online 3D school that has a complete program that resembles traditional class ones? -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Virtual Apps

2015-06-11 Thread peter_b
that’s surreal, being forced into buying highly expensive state of the art tech, in stead of some off the shelf computers, out of budgetary constraints. I’m sure that’s exactly how European administration is run. that VCA looks like it would allow you to set up a nice 3D rendering workflow, but

Re: Crowd effects (ICE) - 2011 / 2015?

2015-06-11 Thread Jens Lindgren
You should probably search for CrowdFX on google / youtube. CrowdFX was introduced in Softimage 2013 and improved in 2014. /Jens On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Tenshi . tenshu...@gmail.com wrote: I support this, does anyone knows a good in depth tutorial about it? On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at

Re: OT:houdini stamp UV

2015-06-11 Thread Demian Kurejwowski
if saving right click the node, and save the uv out doesn't work, you can move the point to uv space,  use a wire node to thick the wires, and render a picture with an orto camera from above.  make an otl with a render button =)    easy setup to get thicker lines in the UVimage. El

Re: Virtual Apps

2015-06-11 Thread Matt Lind
Has a cloud service like Amazon web services, or similar, been considered? Basically everything Peter just said applies, but you'd have the benefit of scaling up and down as needed and not have to pay for time when school is not in session, nor fork out for or maintain hardware sitting in a