After few projects in Houdini I'm starting to warm towards it. The passes&takes are ok and mantra is quite capable. Theres a lot of things that can be done with frame buffers and having very many passes is quite rare for me. I would be interested to test out Redshif/Octane there but they are still in beta afaik.
With the attribute visualizers + vop&vex I can work quite similar style as in ICE. Naturally Houdini simulation solvers are really good and that really makes a difference. Floating license price is just "bit" too much... On 19 Aug 2015 22:41, "Gmail" <[email protected]> wrote: > SI, Ice & Redshift for me. Trying hard to force myself to get some > interests for Houdini and C4D, but they give me half the hard-on... > > > Le 19/08/2015 21:12, Tim Crowson a écrit : > > Marc-Andre, > > The others you mention (Octane, Brigade...) are progressive renderers > only, and have other limitations that make them tricky to implement > effectively in animation pipeline. Redshift was designed from day one as a > bucket-based production renderer for animation, and to be integrated into > common DCC apps. We've been using it at Magnetic for over two years now, > and I can't overstate how much of a difference it has made for us. I think > they'll continue to support Soft as long as there is demand for it. I > spoke with the Redshift guys at Siggraph and they seemed to be getting some > really great traffic. I couldn't begin to make any guess on what the future > holds, but I'm optimistic. Those guys are awesome. > > Not sure what the Arnold plan is. > > -Tim > > On 8/19/2015 1:03 PM, Leoung O'Young wrote: > > Redshift is very fast and without any glitches that we used to experience > with MR. > The only problem I see going forward is, we know and they know Soft is a > dead end, their focus > in Redshift's development will with Maya, 3D max, C4D Houdini etc. And who > can blame them. > So far they have been excellent to deal with on every level. > So I see for us Soft will be good for another 2-3 years. > > On 19/08/2015 12:59 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote: > > Hi guys, > Not being in the hi-res movie/ad industry anymore, I'm pretty surprised > RedShift seems to have taken a place quite quick in your heart and more > importantly in your pipeline. Of course the closer to real-time you get and > the cost lowering Redshift provides is definitely interesting but I could > not have predicted that Redshift would be such a game changer, at least for > Softimage users.(I don't know about the other DCC users as I don't hang > that much in 3D forums. > > Where is that taking you? I mean, what do you guys see as the next step? I > heard Octane is pretty slick too but have you checked out Brigade? > Is Arnold working towards this direction as well? > > Curious MAC > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Jean-Louis > Billard > Sent: August-19-15 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Continued use of Softimage question > > We’re still a Softimage pipeline, and just like most who are replying, the > main reason is for the ease in lighting, rendering, and pass setup. > We have an Arnold renderfarm but we are finding ourselves using that less > often in favour of Redshift. > Houdini is on our radar and we’ve been tinkering with it, and we have a > Modo license but haven’t had the time to even install it. > > Overall I think that we are still more efficient using Softimage as it is, > than we would be switching to a newer workflow, which (without wanting to > start that whole discussion again) speaks volumes about the quality of > Softimage, bearing in mind that we can assume its development essentially > finished 5 years ago! > > Cheers, > > Jean-Louis > Digital Golem > > > > > > > On 19 Aug 2015, at 12:08, Sandy Sutherland <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > After a stint out of the Softimage fold - mainly in setting up a Houdini > rendering and VFX pipeline somewhere, and now I am at Axis animation, doing > pipeline tools and setup - I wanted to get a feel for this - > > Who in the world is continuing to use Softimage? Who might still be on > the lookout for high end Soft Riggers, pipeline, tools etc...? > > Just wondering, as I consider the future for myself and family. > > Thanks > > Sandy > > > > > > > -- > > > > > *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* > > > *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Bldg C, Suite 101, Nashville, > TN 37214 > *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com > [email protected] > > *Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is > confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original > intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please > inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage > mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements > made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of > Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents.* > > > > >
