Here some of my stuff done with ICE: https://vimeo.com/80227846 Simple example of the custom ICE crowd system I've done based on Craig Reynolds Steering Behaviors paper.
https://vimeo.com/75137589 Impact compound https://vimeo.com/41321274 ICE FeatherGenerator https://vimeo.com/14156380 This one was done with XSI 7 long time ago.As I remember I done it all in one point cloud without any comp tricks and at that time there wasn't any other software except Houdini maybe that can do that so easily . https://vimeo.com/17346298 https://vimeo.com/17347655 Just playing with ICE https://vimeo.com/14153302 Dynamic ComputerMouse Rig You can ignore the text below because most of it was said already in other threads but I am too emotional right now after looking at this great work with ICE and I felt I have to write it . Please excuse my English . This is the worst decision Autodesk did, and I am sure will have big impact for them as a company !I am pretty sure that they are going to loose M&E industry in 3 to 4 years if they don't change their moves and reconsider some of their decisions...They lost and keep losing the most important think for them as a company the trust of their customers and this is something that they won't be able to win back easily. Because they are so big and greedy they forget to look down to their basis and see that what keeps them up there are humans and not toys with which they can play their corporate games and shift them around. Autodesk, It is true the Softimage community is small but you don't see the big picture here....you don't pissed only us but the entire CG industry. And BTW the bad word and the bad news is something that spreads really fast . Autodesk in case you are not aware what you are killing right now it's called ICE and is great and innovative technology, which I am sure that you won't be able to recreate in the next 2-3 years,and after that will be too late for you!You have it now and the big question is why don't use it as it is ?I think because the people that take the decision in this company are not aware what they have or worst they don't care. I have a feeling also that you want to sell us only black boxes that are managed only by you, but I am telling you this won't work for you in the long term...By buying plugins and trying to put them together as a black boxes you don't realize that what you are creating in the end is ugly frankenstein monster that nobody really likes.And now you are trying to force us to stare at this boxy monster Maya every day. No thanks, I prefer to work with the elegant dude called Houdini! (BTW Not long after the acquisition I knew and many of us knew that Autodesk will make Softimage to fade out and then kill it. Actually Autodesk is very predictable company for me they proved many times in the past that you can't trust them ! So not long after acquisition I started to focus more on Houdini and now I am very happy about my decision at that time . SideFX is a company that makes their product with passion and love, they are first to implement the latest technology and always listen to their customers.) Autodesk, ICE is great technology that opens the artistic creativity to go much further than any other solution you are offering. It is open enough to create your art in the way you want it to be created and is not dictated by the black box boundaries. The Result of this freedom you can find it in the most beautiful and visually rich project done last 5 - 6 years ,all done by a great artists using the most artistic friendly and technically deep application that you have to offer Softimage . And you are ready to loose all of that including the artists as your customers...and maybe at some point some of the studios ? here are some examples : http://www.subaru-global.com/news2011n001100.html https://vimeo.com/4060100 https://vimeo.com/24069938 https://vimeo.com/44672943 https://vimeo.com/23902379 for more check here : http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2739&start=180 I really hope Autodesk reconsider their decision .Hope dies last... But if they don't I have where to go. A On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Byungchul Kang <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes!! Ice crowd is very great!! I have a lot of ice crowd r&d experiences > on my jobs at MBC ( TV channel of South Korea ) about 10+ projects. > https://vimeo.com/73429479 > https://vimeo.com/52531138 > https://vimeo.com/48785305 > https://vimeo.com/40859520 > https://vimeo.com/36810887 > > > > 2014-03-23 1:19 GMT+09:00 Tom Kleinenberg <[email protected]>: > > I worked on 2 films in Softimage, Zambezia and Khumba. We had some very >> talented people but we were a fairly small crew so we needed a very >> efficient pipeline. The second film we worked on, Khumba, used ICE for fur, >> feathers, foliage generation, plant distribution and general set dressing, >> dust effects, fire effects etc. There may have been some rigging stuff as >> well, I wasn't that involved with that side of things. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhE9aR8Qwzc >> >> https://www.behance.net/gallery/Khumba-Plants-and-Distribution/6028177 >> >> >> http://www.popularmechanics.co.za/tech/triggerfish-animation-takes-cinema-audiences-by-storm/ >> >> >> >> On 21 March 2014 23:05, Ed Manning <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Bk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> We should make an edit of all this ice work into a 2-3 mins showcase. >>>> That would really ram home the point.. Call it "what is ice?" >>>> >>> >>> Agree, but I think we'd need more like 20 minutes to even scratch the >>> surface. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "Softimage Mailing List Archive" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/xsi_list/7aGyes8lBQE/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > *Byungchul Kang* | MBC CG TEAM [http://imbc.com] > http://cgndev.com >
