Great initiative Alastair. While I can't offer examples of ingenious ways to make good use of ICE - many others here can - I will take the opportunity to advocate for not only developing Bifrost to work in a similar fashion to ICE, but also take it one step further for those of us less technically inclined.
I love ICE, use Mootzoid and Exocortex plugins regularly and probably generally use ICE on 80-90% of my productions, one way or another, so don't get me wrong here. It is however also a fact that I spend way too much time trying to do stuff that should be very easy, but failing to do so because of context mismatches and incompatible data types, like when I want to use pointcloud data on a polygonal mesh or the other way around. Handling and controlling orientation comes to mind too - this has often taken too much time when all I want to do is something similar to the UI constraints, with choice of axis for orientation constraints etc. So in order to make more of the (hopefully coming) power of Bifrost available to less technical artists, I would suggest to go further in creating higher level control nodes too, but certainly not sacrificing the low level access to the nuts and bolts for those who understand this. Hoping I am not the only one wishing for something like this, I realize it would be a fase 4 in the Bifrost rollout :) Morten Den 21. marts 2014 kl. 12:12 skrev Alastair Hearsum <hear...@glassworks.co.uk>: > > We had a chat with a senior chap at Autodesk. There was hint of surprise at > one use of ICE that I mentioned in passing. I think we over estimate the > understanding of what ICE gets used for and its all pervading usefulness. > I'd like to invite people to share their ice work especially if its more > obscure (without giving away your trade secrets obviously). Here are some > starters for us. Please keep the explanations as short as possible to > attract Autodesk to read them. > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/love > <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/love> > 1) Fine feathers created totally with ice strands > 2) Feather system created in ice > 3) Cats fur : ice strands > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/tadpoles-master > <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/tadpoles-master> > 1) Totally ice strand vegetation > 2) Ice driven water surface > 3) Render tadpoles have ice compound which auomatically detects the shot > number and selects the correct cache > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/node/3266&search-type=brand&term=g-star > <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/node/3266&search-type=brand&term=g-star> > 1) Ice creating the cotton balls unravelling > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/node/549 <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/node/549> > 1) Ice crowd > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/transformation&search-type=brand&term=lg > <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/transformation&search-type=brand&term=lg> > 1) Object IDs picked up in ice and use to assign materials of supermarket > aisle items > > https://vimeo.com/87096859 <https://vimeo.com/87096859> > Some holes aesthetically > 1) ice rigid body pens transferring their attributes to lagoa ice fluid > melted pens > 2)Ice fracturing bottle > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/strewth&search-type=brand&term=o > <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/strewth&search-type=brand&term=o> > 1) Intervened in Momentum ice plugin to extract vectors and modulate them > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/excess-baggage&search-type=brand&term=benylin > <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/excess-baggage&search-type=brand&term=benylin> > 1) Hair created from scratch in ice strands including clumping > > http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/summer-sport-0&search-type=brand&term=freeview > <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/video/summer-sport-0&search-type=brand&term=freeview> > 1) Ice rigid bodies combine with ice syflex and custom hand cooked verlet > for the strings > > And many many more. > > > -- > Alastair Hearsum > Head of 3d > > > [GLASSWORKS] > 33/34 Great Pulteney Street > London > W1F 9NP > +44 (0)20 7434 1182 > glassworks.co.uk <http://www.glassworks.co.uk/> > > > Glassworks Terms and Conditions of Sale can be found at 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.
