Hey Paul,
I´m looking forward to seeing your piece come together.
It´s a really nice team effort and gives a good opportunity
to come together and create something lasting and unique.
I understand that many would prefer to show their artist´s skills instead
of showing themselves in a documetary, so I move on and wish you all the best.
Unfortunately, my workload doesn´t allow me to offer any serious contribution
but I´m looking forward to glancing at what you guys pull off with a bang.
Best,
tim
On 13.03.2014 00:12, Christian Gotzinger wrote:
I think the video has got to be visually stunning. Short (i.e. doable) but very
epic, and Paul's idea fits the bill.
Also, I completely hate the thought of doing a documentary with interviews. "How do you
feel about the discontinuation of Softimage?" - "Well, it certainly has affected us
a lot,
and..." *YAAAAWWWN* Seriously, who'd watch that?
I'm willing to put aside time for Paul's idea. If nothing else, at least we go
out with a bang.
I have been using SI for around 9 years. These days I mostly do modeling,
texturing, lighting and build lots of ICE tools. But in the past I've also been
paid to rig, animate,
matchmove and comp. So I qualify for the generalist category.
Hopefully Paul can pull off the coordination of this.
Christian
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:37 PM, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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, 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 a bit, with suggestions from Doeke Wartena
who aptly likened it to Forest Gump’s running sequence.
I thought Greg would be a good start, as he still has a lot of
followers on you-tube and is kind of known. I had a big response from the VFX
industry when I made it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9Fod9KigU
We start with Greg Mutt (see above) doing a video blog about Soft being
killed.. He suddenly jumps up and says You know what? Screw this!! and stomps
off screen.
We cut to him walking down a street with purpose.
Then we cut to various other CGI characters or entities, leaving
buildings, walking, running. making their way somewhere.
The shots get bigger as more and more CGI things join the walking
groups.
Its starts getting Epic. Godzilla Stomps through times Square as a
bunch of Lego-like characters run beneath him etc
We see Greg again, riding on a Trex, past Mount Rushmore, as
helicopters fly past . George Washington’s stone face says ‘Go for it Greg!’
Tokyo and a bunch of Manga characters strut down the neon streets
looking mean and others looking Cute join them.
Paris and a bunch of Monsters stick out their thumbs to hitch a ride. a
massive spaceship descends.
etc ( increasingly epic ideas along these lines are up for grabs.)
Eventually an awesome throng of CGI characters, and entities gather at
the HQ of Autodesk.. (this could be CGI and Stylised. Black and Imposing)
They are carrying banners, such as ‘make Softimage not war’. They
stop.. Greg hesitates, from behind him, a character walks to the door.
It is a little cute Manga girl . she presses the buzzer a reply comes.
‘Hello, this is Autodesk. Press 1 if you want information on Maya.
Press 2 if you want information on Max, press...’ (this bit needs more thought)
She leans in and whispers ‘Please don’t kill us’
SAVE SOFTIMAGE slams onto screen
I don’t want to force anyone to do this idea, but if the general
consensus is that its a decent start then its worth building on I think. I
think the good thing about it is
that its a simple premise, yet allows for great creative freedom.
