Hope I’m not late to the party - sure I’d love to contribute in some way – generalist, will do lighting, particles, compositing,...
Paul, as far as your “varied CG characters purposely going somewhere” idea – it would be cool to really build this from something tiny, intimate to something massive. 1 character, then 2 then 3 then 4.... to end with some gigantic crowd shots. Now, to be honest – with all the smashing stuff that exists already, I think a smart edit with some of the coolest work out there could actually tell this story. Say: mill’s hummingbird, some Subary car parts thrown in, the end of passion pictures’ Beatles rockband,... Very much like those old softimage customer reels. Or come to think of it: why not simply a massive re-edit of the juiciest bits of 20 years of Softimage customer reels... those were always fun to watch and showcase the diversity and creativity – with every half second filled to the rim with the culmination of weeks and months of hard work. anyways, whatever you do, would love to do my bit. From: Christian Gotzinger Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A germ of an idea. 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]> 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.
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