It has gotten to the point that if I don't find a nodal system under the hood of whatever I am using (even Microsoft Word) I get annoyed. I even want my browser to be nodal (OK, maybe not, but could be interesting).
The thing about nodal systems that is obvious to those of us that love them, but is under reported as a benefit, is the ease at which you can pass a scene/project/asset off to another artist and have them follow your logic easily. Reading a node graph is so much easier than looking at settings (for my brain). Nodes contain the "why" and the "how" not just the "what" of any effect. For anyone who has ever had to wade through someone else's (or hell, even your own) After Effects project, you will know what a mind game it is to take over where someone left off without having nodes. As much as we all love ICE, even that was not fully nodal. There were parts of Softimage that couldn't be touched through nodes, and it was still a layer of abstraction to the software. Sylyn sounds like it is nodal from the ground up, which is what *truly* excites me. Software flames aside, Maya will never be truly nodal. It can help, for sure, but until and unless they rewrite it from the ground up, there will always be parts of Maya sequestered from nodes. Not for any nefarious Autodesk reason, just because it is old and wasn't originally built with that kind of access. I have yet to try canvas, as I am working on a large VFX gig right now, but when I get some down time, canvas is the next thing I am looking into. Been using Houdini for a while now, and that is Node Nerd Heaven. It could certainly stand to be made easier to use, which is what ICE was so good at. Hopefully Canvas does and Sylyn will make nodes easy to use like ICE, and powerful like Houdini. A tall order, indeed. On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Leendert A. Hartog <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't you think we all collectively have Fabric and/or Softimage "on the > brain"? :p > Looks like a nodal system to me, sort of default look'n'feel. > > Liefs en groetjes > Leendert > > > -- > > Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue > Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com > > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> -25 Years Experience -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
