I guess this list is closely related with the type of tasks that land on the individual artists table, but here are my top 5:
ICE - for its power and versatility Render Tree - flexibility for testing various shading setups Operator Stack - the ability to go back in modeling stack and fix stuff in the 11th hour before rendering Render Passes/Partitions/Overrides General ease of use and efficient workflow Morten Bartholdy gimmickvfx.com Den 13. marts 2014 kl. 16:26 skrev Stephen Blair <[email protected]>: > Row Labels Count of Feature > ICE 11 > Render Passes/Partitions/Overrides 9 > Operator stack 7 > Non-linear character animation 5 > GUI 5 > Explorer 4 > Workgroups 3 > Render Tree 3 > GATOR 3 > Artist driven non-linear workflow 3 > Weighting 3 > Polygon Modeling 3 > Tweak Tool 2 > Snapping 1 > Animation toolset 1 > Ultimapper 1 > Animation Mixer 1 > Shape manager 1 > Motor 1 > Live Corrective Shapes 1 > Texturing toolset 1 > API 1 > Usability 1 > Scripting 1 > Workflow 1 > Selections 1 > Python 1 > Reference planes 1 > (blank) > Grand Total 76 > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jordi Bares < [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > I would suggest Alastair to have a poll, will be easier to do… > > > > Anyway, would you mind sharing your final list? I am fascinated by what the > > community of artists say. > > > > Jordi Bares > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > On 13 Mar 2014, at 14:41, Pablo Tufaro < [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Here´s my tip 5! > > > > > > 1-Explorer > > > 2-Render Passes/Partitions/Overrides > > > 3-ICE > > > 4-Render Tree > > > 5-Animation mixer. > > > > > > El 13/03/2014 6:54, Alastair Hearsum escribió: > > > > > > > > It seems as if I may have some contact with Autodesk shortly! I want to > > > > be > > > > armed with some points. What I'd like is your top 5 features that make > > > > Softimage great that we'd miss if we migrated to something else. > > > > > > > > Please don't give me more than 5 and please don't go on too long > > > > describing > > > > them (It takes a while to read all the posts). > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Alastair > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Alastair Hearsum > > > > Head of 3d > > > > > > > > > > > > [GLASSWORKS] > > > > 33/34 Great Pulteney Street > > > > London > > > > W1F 9NP > > > > +44 (0)20 7434 1182 <tel:%2B44%20%280%2920%207434%201182> > > > > glassworks.co.uk <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/> > > > > > > > > > > > > Glassworks Terms and Conditions of Sale can be found at glassworks.co.uk > > > > <http://glassworks.co.uk> > > > > > > > > (Company registered in England with number 04759979. Registered office > > > > 25 > > > > Harley Street, London, W1G 9BR. VAT registration number: 867290000) > > > > > > > > Please consider the environment before you print this email. > > > > > > > > DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and attachments are strictly privileged, private > > > > and confidential and are intended solely for the stated recipient(s). > > > > Any > > > > views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not > > > > necessarily represent those of the Company. If you are not the intended > > > > recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and > > > > that > > > > any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail > > > > is > > > > strictly prohibited. If this transmission is received in error please > > > > kindly return it to the sender and delete this message from your system.
