Re: Eric MOOTZOID Mootz is nominated for a 3D World CG Award!

2014-06-11 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Very well deserved, congratulations. 2014-06-11 12:43 GMT-03:00 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: Congratulations Eric!!! Well deserved!!! --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-06-11 10:40 GMT-05:00 Mirko Jankovic

Re: Nike The Last Game

2014-06-10 Thread Paulo César Duarte
A beautiful work to be placed on the Autodesk Softimage Area in Customer Stories, showing how it has used in the animation, crowd and effects, ops I forgot, we no longer have Softimage, maybe then the Maya page showing how it helped in a part of the modeling. Thanks again Autodesk. 2014-06-10

Re: Work from Blur

2014-06-10 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Amazing works. 2014-06-10 16:08 GMT-03:00 Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com: woweee lots of treats! great stuff and thanks for sharing On 10 June 2014 19:51, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremie, first of all congratulations! second thing; was this done with eol

Nike The Last Game

2014-06-09 Thread Paulo César Duarte
By Passion Pictures, anyone know details about the production? And congratulations to the team, amazing work. http://www.passion-london.com/featured-video/nike-the-last-game/26c7845d9393ecc2e72fca6f11e76fb0 Cheers. Paulo Duarte -- www.pauloduarte.ws

Re: Nike The Last Game

2014-06-09 Thread Paulo César Duarte
work and the character design. Love to see Softimage project coming out at such incredible standard. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 9 Jun 2014, at 19:17, Paulo César Duarte paulocdua...@gmail.com wrote: By Passion Pictures, anyone know details about the production

Re: Software company Autodesk creates synthetic virus

2014-06-05 Thread Paulo César Duarte
These kind of research scare me. 2014-06-05 18:30 GMT-03:00 Serch Mucino sergio.muc...@gmail.com: Hehehehe. Horribly possible (Monstanto it's already trying to get that model working... with Nestle behind them) Sergio Mucino On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Francois Lord

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-04-23 Thread Paulo César Duarte
--- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos http://www.cappuccino-films.com 2014-04-03 15:54 GMT-04:00 Paulo César Duarte paulocdua...@gmail.com: Very nice works with Blender by Christophe SEUX: http://vimeo.com

Re: Momentum 4 + ImplosiaFX 4 official release

2014-04-15 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Wow, a lot of features, soon I'll buy a license. 2014-04-15 15:01 GMT-03:00 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com : Sounds great, a lot of people where looking forward to these. On 15 April 2014 18:38, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi all, We are pleased to announce

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-04-03 Thread Paulo César Duarte
customizable to your needs, have a look at these guys (stripping away anything but the stuff they need for their interior designer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW0Ac2cK1Ss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s6Sl7og7xY Greetz Philipp Paulo César Duarte paulocdua...@gmail.com hat am 1

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-04-01 Thread Paulo César Duarte
DCC. It has a lot of nice things going for it. I've been looking over the 2.70 features this morning (before the government here decided to turn off YouTube...) and it's once again taken some good strides. DAN On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Paulo César Duarte paulocdua

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-03-28 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Maya style 3D-Viewport navigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fqTUyDts0 2014-03-28 9:01 GMT-03:00 Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl: Oh, don't let my slight semantic cynicism fool you into thinking that I don't applaud them for what they're doing. Greetz Leendert Dan Yargici

Re: Let's Share Contacts

2014-03-28 Thread Paulo César Duarte
I think we could make another google groups, any name to suggest? - softimageus...@googlegroups.com - xsi4e...@googlegroups.com paulocdua...@gmail.com 2014-03-28 15:53 GMT-03:00 Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com: Maybe a linkedin group could be created. I know there are loads of them

Another alternative to Softimage

2014-03-27 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Between, Houdini, Modo, Lightwave and Cinema 4d, Blender is also a good alternative, I'd say he's a middle ground between Modo and Lightwave, but the best thing about him is opensource and the community, any developer can implement something in it. Take a look in this The best blender demo reel

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-03-27 Thread Paulo César Duarte
looking over the 2.70 features this morning (before the government here decided to turn off YouTube...) and it's once again taken some good strides. DAN On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Paulo César Duarte paulocdua...@gmail.com wrote: Between, Houdini, Modo, Lightwave and Cinema 4d, Blender

Re: Another alternative to Softimage

2014-03-27 Thread Paulo César Duarte
an awfull lot of things right. On 28 March 2014 02:34, Paulo César Duarte paulocdua...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ed Well, I'm not going to leave Softimage, it's like part of my arm, five years from now, will still be a great software, but I'm always following the evolution of Blender and make me

Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass

2014-03-25 Thread Paulo César Duarte
I'm sure the Softimage user preferred to continue using the program without these tools, than having the software discontinued, for all these tools there is an option. Even without these tools Softimage still a great software. 2014-03-25 13:33 GMT-03:00 Chris Vienneau

Re: Softimage webinar - Q/A - finally uploaded

2014-03-19 Thread Paulo César Duarte
What I don't understand is how they want me to make the transition to a software that doesn't have the tools that I used before? Such as ICE mainly, in Max or Maya 2015 I won't have my workflow again, so there is no transition. I will continue using Softimage as long as I can, and complement with

Re: [OT] Autodesk announces 2015 3D product updates.

2014-03-18 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Agree, and the *geodesic voxel binding* skin algorithm, Blender already have at least 1 year ago or more. In other words, no innovation, only implementation of existing tools. 2014-03-18 15:59 GMT-03:00 Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com: The Maya release feels like a list of plugins to me:

Re: Why MAX is not option for me...

2014-03-17 Thread Paulo César Duarte
2014-03-17 17:23 GMT-03:00 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: The only difference between Max and Maya is that Max is a plugin container, and Maya is script container with plugins AD bought and sell them as integrated and innovation. The best definition of Maya and Max I ever saw.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-13 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Yes of course the idea of Paul needs to be shaped. I post an idea on the si-community forum, about a battlefield with tanks and one tank represents Softimage and the soldiers are the users or the dev team. http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=26t=5021p=42767#p42767 But I agree

Re: YOUR TOP 5

2014-03-13 Thread Paulo César Duarte
1 - Modeling (Move Point Tool, Proportional Modeling, Stick Keys); 2 - Passes / Partitions; 3 - Explorer; 4 - Fx Tree integration with textures in scene; 5 - ICE; 2014-03-13 13:47 GMT-03:00 Cristobal Infante cgc...@gmail.com: 1) ICE: It's a collaborative tool, users can help each other very

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-13 Thread Paulo César Duarte
We could make a Softimage Foundation, like a Blender Foundation but without source code, at least we can make some cool animation/vfx projects, assets, plugins and ICE compounds... 2014-03-13 21:32 GMT-03:00 Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com: Couldn't access google.docs due to my Firewall but now

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: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-06 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Any chances that we can see this Voodoo from Rhythm Hues, release commercially? http://rhythm.com/labs/ 2014-03-05 13:45 GMT-03:00 Octavian Ureche okt...@gmail.com: No matter what assurances autodesk ever gives, i don't think anyone will ever believe them anymore. But then again, histories

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-06 Thread Paulo César Duarte
, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Paulo César Duarte paulocdua...@gmail.com wrote: Any chances that we can see this Voodoo from Rhythm Hues, release commercially? http://rhythm.com/labs/ I have a GREAT idea -- Autodesk could buy it, oh wait

Re: Article in La Presse, Montreal Newspaper about Softimage's retirement

2014-03-06 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Right, after the acquisition of Softimage by Autodesk, I never more see a banner or a advertising page of Softimage. 2014-03-06 16:35 GMT-03:00 Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com: The damage has been done by AVID. Autodesk has continued for six years, but has never been able to reverse

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-06 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Maybe soon we will have something similar to ICE in Blender? http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?327950-Flakes-%96-nodular-everything Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/7PILS8e.png http://i.imgur.com/m17PI9p.png 2014-03-06 15:18 GMT-03:00 Paulo César Duarte paulocdua...@gmail.com

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-05 Thread Paulo César Duarte
I believe that as long SitoA and Exocortex Alembic continue being updated, I can still work with Softimage for another five years without problems, for more complex tasks such as fluid simulation and volumetric effects, Alembic is the perfect integration between Softimage and Houdini. I don't need

Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement

2014-03-04 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Very sad, but I will continue using Softimage until there is some other 3d program so versatile, fast and powerful. I intend not to use any Autodesk product for now, after years of dedication it can be discontinued again. That's how Autodesk tends to act by buying competitors and eliminating them.

Houdini to Softimage

2014-02-11 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Hello. I created a Flip simulation in Houdini and I'm trying to bring the Particles to Softimage, I'm exporting Alembic in Houdini, but I can't import in Softimage, I'm using Exocortex Alembic 1.1 in Softimage. ' ERROR : Alembic: [alembic] Error reading file: IArchive::IArchive( iFileName ) I