Very impressive tools.. :-) Sill amazed by what people produce with ICE Jordi Bares [email protected]
On 1 Feb 2014, at 11:58, Nick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: > Milan Vasek’s Scatter Tools are my best friend when it comes to this sort of > stuff. https://vimeo.com/36612233 > He has created some pretty astounding imagery with them also > http://www.milanvasek.com/?p=355 > > More advanced stuff that uses libraries of assets would have been used by the > folks at Whiskytree, Steve Caron might be able to elaborate. > But if you combine Scatter tools with Arnold instancing you pretty much have > the best solution out of the box in my opinion. > > Cheers, Nick > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Enrique > Caballero > Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2014 3:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Set Dressing Tool Ideas > > Hey everyone, > I was hoping to pick your brains. > > > I am currently doing some research on how to simplify, and make cheaper our > set dressing process over at this small shop that I work at. > > In the old days, when we did small simple shows, set dressing wasn't very > difficult for us as there were limited amounts of props and environment > pieces. We would just import referenced models and place them by hand/ > > But now that we do full forests and large amounts of rocks and plant life, we > need to upgrade our techniques. As our original techniques are no longer > sufficient. > > > > I am looking at how ICE can help us with the initial set dressing. Maybe by > painting weight maps we can spawn different types of mushrooms and trees etc. > > > I am currently experimenting with Dart Throw, and it looks very promising. > Thanks Julian! > > Although I need to figure out how to get it to switch between different geo > types, IE. Trees, mushrooms, etc. Currently I can only get it to spawn one > geo type at a time. > > I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how we could simplify this > stuff, as I said before, currently I am looking at Dart throw and ABScatter > to see if they can help us out, but I am open minded. Has anyone tried Vue > Studio or anything similar that they can recommend? > > best, > Enrique
