I was pretty disappointed with the BiFrost demo. why was here no real time preview? The sending of data from Maya to BiFrost seemed clunky and something from the late 90's, I have no idea who the tool is aimed at - I don't know any vfx artists who, whilst trying to choreograph his fx shot, starts playing around with some look Dev in the background whist the sim caches. What a really weird workflow - they have seen other apps such as Houdini and Realflow do this right (and pretty much in real time)?
Sorry if I missed something obvious.... Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition & Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicolas Esposito Sent: 18 March 2014 08:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Softimage transition webinar is starting in 10 minutes So, Bifrost is a kind of external plugin...ok...water effect was cool...but beside fluid sim what else could be done? I would love to se a side by side comparison on the same task using ICE and Bifrost Another thing that I notice is that you don't have direct control on the sim particles as in ICE, but you kind of add a deformer based on another geometry ( wave shader )...so you're always referencing external geometry? weightmap are widely used, but this workflow looks very gimmicky 2014-03-18 8:40 GMT+01:00 Martin Contel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: I wish I could be there, Jordi... :-/ -- Martin Contel Square Enix (Visual Works) [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Images/QueensAwardLogo.jpg] BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages<http://www.disabledgo.com/en/org/bournemouth-university> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
