The idea is fantastic. Though, I think asking this directly to Eric
Mootz or Leonard Koch is already possible (if I'm not totaly wrong)
Le 14/03/2014 11:26, Arman Sernaz a écrit :
In order to keep things well organized, a special web site which is
dedicated for this purpose may be a good idea. I'm willing to
contribute as much as I can to kickstart this project.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nika Ragua <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
i`m very interested - because i somehow not damanded as i wish to
be ))) ahahaha
and i love to do this kind of stuff, yet i`m visual programming
limited - do not want to mess with code - so ICE, VEX, FE when
they do it.
aaah, better late than never
2014-03-14 13:51 GMT+04:00 Nicolas Esposito <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hi guys,
This is maybe not the best time to write about this, but maybe
something good could be done about this idea.
Looking around si-community and here as well I saw a lot of
topics regarding "How to" and "Help me with" in order to
achieve a goal.
This is perfectly fine and on both communities there are lots
of talented people willing to give advices, share compounds
and make tutorials about it.
There are some specific things which are not so simple to
develop, and most of the time you can't get the thing you're
doing to work, so you end up going nowhere, or switch to
another software you know already do what you're looking for (
if there is one ).
So, with this in mind my proposal is quite "simple":
Setup small found raise groups, using kickstarter, in order to
finance a TD or a talented artist to develop a custom tool
which allows you to reach your ( ours ) goal.
The TD look at the request, setup the minimum amount on money
needed to develop that tool, then the fund raise campaign begin.
Lets start with an example
- A muscle system within Softimage: Most of you saw the Peta
commercial and the behind the scene and saw the amazing thing
The Mill did using Softimage; also recently Paul Smith did a
demo of his muscle system which looks pretty damn cool; Vorlex
developed his plugin using ICE, and those are just few examples.
- VFX done with ICE: Exocortex already sells amazing plugins,
but lets say I need specific VFX in my shot and I need someone
who's capable to create what I need.
To put it simple would be the answer to "I don't know how to
do this, can someone do this for me if I pay?"
The found raising could be applied not only to Softimage (
even because I'm not sure how many TDs want to create tools
for a Software which is going to be left out in a couple of
years ), but extend this idea to other software, for example
Fabric Engine, which has huge potentials and lots of people
right now are really interested into this framework.
So, what are your thoughts about it?
Cheers
Nicolas
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