Re: Friday Flashback #129

[Ludovick Michaud]

Yeah check Greg's facebook. It's off my timeline. Took me 2 hours to fall
asleep after seeing that monstrosity.
That's what friends are for, right?

Ludovick William Michaud
mobile: *214.632.6756*
*www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud*
+Shading / Lighting / Compositing
+CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Matt Lind  wrote:

> The button has been pushed, but I still don’t see a picture ;-)
>
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> Matt
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> ** **
>
> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Punchatz
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 4:03 PM
>
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #129
>
> ** **
>
> I promised never to talk about that…;)
>
> ** **
>
>  That's why I warned Ludo about the picture.
>
> ** **
>
>  I told him not to press the big red shiny button, but it sounds like he
> did it anyway;)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Matt Lind  wrote:**
> **
>
> Yes, please.  I never heard of this clown pic.
>
>  
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>  
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> Matt
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> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [
> mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Rares Halmagean
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 1:39 PM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #129
>
>  
>
> You mentioned the clown incident every once in a while but I don't think I
> ever saw pictures. Maybe a refresher is in order? (:-)
>
> On 7/19/2013 3:24 PM, Greg Punchatz wrote:
>
> I TOLD you not to look at it!!
>
>  
>
> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [
> mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Ludovick Michaud
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 12:49 PM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #129
>
>  
>
> hahahaha along with the clown pic on Facebook
>
>
> 
>
> Ludovick William Michaud
> mobile: *214.632.6756*
>
> *www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud*
>
> +Shading / Lighting / Compositing
>
> +CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director
>
>  
>
>  
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Lind 
> wrote:
>
> And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That
> year was the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.*
> ***
>
>  
>
> Matt
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Punchatz
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #129
>
>  
>
> and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters
> (Hooters)
> --
>
> *Greg Punchatz*
>
> *Sr. Creative Director*
> Janimation
> 214.823.7760
> www.janimation.com 
>
> On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
>
> Friday Flashback #129
> Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet
> launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush
> 1.5, and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.
> http://wp.me/powV4-2N1 
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> --
> *Rares Halmagean
> **___**
> *visual development and 3d character & content creation.
> *rarebrush.com*  
>
>

RE: Arnold Scene Viewer integrated in Softimage using Creation Platform

[Andres Stephens]

Great stuff! =) 

Subject: Re: Arnold Scene Viewer integrated in Softimage using Creation Platform
From: alok.gandhi2...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:06:48 -0400
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Really nice work Guillaume! I am waiting to see your Siggraph presentration. I 
hope there will be a video recorded and uploaded.

Sent from my iPhone
On 2013-07-19, at 11:00 PM, Guillaume Laforge  
wrote:

Hi guys,
As I think this tool developed at Hybride Technologies could get some interest 
from Softimage users, here is a teaser that I will show at the Fabric Engine 
user group this Siggraph: https://vimeo.com/70671257

Cheers,
Guillaume LaforgeR&D engineer at Hybride Technologies

  

Re: Arnold Scene Viewer integrated in Softimage using Creation Platform

[Alok Gandhi]

Really nice work Guillaume! I am waiting to see your Siggraph presentration. I 
hope there will be a video recorded and uploaded.

Sent from my iPhone

On 2013-07-19, at 11:00 PM, Guillaume Laforge  
wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> As I think this tool developed at Hybride Technologies could get some 
> interest from Softimage users, here is a teaser that I will show at the 
> Fabric Engine user group this Siggraph: https://vimeo.com/70671257
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Guillaume Laforge
> R&D engineer at Hybride Technologies
> 

Arnold Scene Viewer integrated in Softimage using Creation Platform

[Guillaume Laforge]

Hi guys,

As I think this tool developed at Hybride Technologies could get some
interest from Softimage users, here is a teaser that I will show at the
Fabric Engine user group this Siggraph: https://vimeo.com/70671257

Cheers,

Guillaume Laforge
R&D engineer at Hybride Technologies

Re: Re[2]: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Chris Chia]

Hi Mathieu,
Thanks for making the effort to make this reply to elaborate on how you guys 
used ICE in the movie. Everyone here would surely benefit from this detailed 
description. And i'll definitely keep an eye on them when I catch the movie. 

Wow! Nice R&D people you have gotten there ;) unfortunately I won't be going to 
the siggraph but will definitely tell my colleagues to look out for you people 
at the mentioned booth.

Lastly hope to see more great works from Hybride! And do share with us here 
whenever a great work is done in Softimage. 


Chris 


On 20 Jul, 2013, at 1:59 AM, "Mathieu Leclaire"  wrote:

> 
> OK... I guess that's my cue then...
> 
> 
> We here at Hybride used a lot of ICE to create the motion graphics inside the 
> Jaegers... but there's not much to say, on my part anyway. We trained our 
> staff and created a few ICE based tools over the years so that they could do 
> these type of effects on their own. I was mostly only involved in debugging 
> some stuff and doing a few prototypes/suggestions of certain more complex 
> graphic effects. I was mainly busy working on White House Down, so I've been 
> a bit out of the loop on Pacific Rim. I wish I could tell you more, but I 
> don't really have much information. I know there's a lot of people who worked 
> very hard to make these graphics as cool as possible. I'm very proud of my 
> crew who are now comfortable enough to tackle such complex motion graphic 
> projects using ICE on their own, freeing me and my team up to focus on other 
> more complex technical challenges. Not all graphics where done
> using ICE. Some stuff was done with Cinema 4D, After Effects, Fusion, Flames, 
> etc. But the more complex graphics where pretty much all ICE based.
> 
> So yeah... lots of Softimage based effects where used on Pacific Rim from 
> many vendors... Who said Softimage wasn't used on films? We've been doing a 
> few miracles with it for years here at Hybride and we've worked on quite a 
> few films. You can do whatever you want with Softimage as long as you take 
> the time to set it up properly.
> 
> 
> I'll be at SIGGRAPH with some of my R&D colleagues (Guillaume Laforge, Eric 
> Thivierge & Julien Couet). Feel free to come and chat us up if ever you cross 
> our path. We'll participate in the deep compositing birds of a feather on 
> Monday and on the Fabric Engine birds of a feather on Wednesday, showing a 
> preview of some of our in house tools we are working on. I'll also be keeping 
> an eye on this mailing list if ever you have questions about our work.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Mathieu Leclaire
> Head of R&D
> Hybride Technologies, a Ubisoft division
> 
> 
> -Original Message- 
>> From: "Chris Chia"  
>> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
>> Date: 07/19/13 10:33 
>> Subject: RE: OT: The making of Pacific Rim 
>> 
>> Was just too excited and wanted to share the link...
>> 
>> Alan, hope there's another studio which would talk about its making in 
>> Softimage...
>> 
>>  
>  From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
> [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Gustavo Eggert Boehs 
> [gustav...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:25 PM
>> To: SI mailing list
>> Subject: Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim
>> 
>>  
>  Zbrush is an AD M&E product??
>> 
> Its SIGGRAPH time, who knows? Time to buy a new company?
> lol
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RE: Friday Flashback #129

[Matt Lind]

The button has been pushed, but I still don’t see a picture ;-)


Matt



From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 4:03 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

I promised never to talk about that…;)

 That's why I warned Ludo about the picture.

 I told him not to press the big red shiny button, but it sounds like he did it 
anyway;)

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Matt Lind 
mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote:
Yes, please.  I never heard of this clown pic.


Matt




From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
 [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rares Halmagean
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 1:39 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

You mentioned the clown incident every once in a while but I don't think I ever 
saw pictures. Maybe a refresher is in order? (:-)
On 7/19/2013 3:24 PM, Greg Punchatz wrote:
I TOLD you not to look at it!!

From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
 [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ludovick Michaud
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:49 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

hahahaha along with the clown pic on Facebook

Ludovick William Michaud
mobile: 214.632.6756
www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud
+Shading / Lighting / Compositing
+CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Lind 
mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote:
And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That year was 
the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.

Matt


From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
 On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters 
(Hooters)

Greg Punchatz
Sr. Creative Director
Janimation
214.823.7760
www.janimation.com
On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
Friday Flashback #129
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet 
launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush 1.5, 
and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.
http://wp.me/powV4-2N1



--
Rares Halmagean
___
visual development and 3d character & content creation.
rarebrush.com

Re: Friday Flashback #129

[Greg Punchatz]

I promised never to talk about that…;)

 That's why I warned Ludo about the picture.

 I told him not to press the big red shiny button, but it sounds like he did it 
anyway;)

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Matt Lind  wrote:

> Yes, please.  I never heard of this clown pic.
>  
>  
> Matt
>  
>  
>  
>  
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rares Halmagean
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 1:39 PM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129
>  
> You mentioned the clown incident every once in a while but I don't think I 
> ever saw pictures. Maybe a refresher is in order? (:-)
> 
> On 7/19/2013 3:24 PM, Greg Punchatz wrote:
> I TOLD you not to look at it!!
>  
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ludovick Michaud
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:49 PM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129
>  
> hahahaha along with the clown pic on Facebook
> 
> Ludovick William Michaud
> mobile: 214.632.6756
> www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud
> +Shading / Lighting / Compositing
> +CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director
>  
>  
> 
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Lind  wrote:
> And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That year 
> was the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.
>  
> Matt
>  
>  
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129
>  
> and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters 
> (Hooters)
> Greg Punchatz
> Sr. Creative Director
> Janimation
> 214.823.7760
> www.janimation.com
> On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
> Friday Flashback #129 
> Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet 
> launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush 1.5, 
> and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5. 
> http://wp.me/powV4-2N1
> 
>  
>  
>  
> -- 
> Rares Halmagean
> ___
> visual development and 3d character & content creation. 
> rarebrush.com

Re: MT Strand Extrude for 2013/2014

[olivier jeannel]

I found a little disfunction when using the stCreateStrandset of compounds.
Sometimes, if you're creating strands a bit differently than the usual 
way (EmitFromGeometry + CreateStrand) it can happen that the generated 
polymesh contains 0 (zero) polygon.
(It happen to me when emitting from curve (indstead of point) and also 
when emission was set to TotalNumberOfParticle, and other exotic cases 
that I can't remember )


Don't ask me "why", but if I add a TurbulizeStrand (with very tiny 
strengh (0,001)) after the Strand creation, it all goes well and the 
polymesh gets generated.





Le 12/07/2013 17:15, Emilio Hernandez a écrit :

Thanks for this one Olivier!

I wish I had more time to get more into ICE...




2013/7/12 Malcolm Zaloon mailto:mzalo...@gmail.com>>

Perfect! And fast! Thanks for the tip Olivier!


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:02 PM, olivier jeannel
mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr>> wrote:

https://vimeo.com/64505408
Worth a try


Le 11/07/2013 18:09, Malcolm Zaloon a écrit :

Hello Guys!

I´m seaching for mt strand extrude addon to work with SI
2014, this does exist?
where can be downloaded?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
__

Malcolm Zaloon - Lighting TD - XSI Generalist
Quote:
"Everything can be interconnected and will update
according by interface"





-- 
__

Malcolm Zaloon - Lighting TD - XSI Generalist
Quote:
"Everything can be interconnected and will update according by
interface"




--

RE: Friday Flashback #129

[Matt Lind]

Yes, please.  I never heard of this clown pic.


Matt




From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rares Halmagean
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 1:39 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

You mentioned the clown incident every once in a while but I don't think I ever 
saw pictures. Maybe a refresher is in order? (:-)
On 7/19/2013 3:24 PM, Greg Punchatz wrote:
I TOLD you not to look at it!!

From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
 [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ludovick Michaud
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:49 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

hahahaha along with the clown pic on Facebook

Ludovick William Michaud
mobile: 214.632.6756
www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud
+Shading / Lighting / Compositing
+CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Lind 
mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote:
And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That year was 
the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.

Matt


From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
 On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters 
(Hooters)

Greg Punchatz
Sr. Creative Director
Janimation
214.823.7760
www.janimation.com
On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
Friday Flashback #129
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet 
launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush 1.5, 
and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.
http://wp.me/powV4-2N1



--
Rares Halmagean
___
visual development and 3d character & content creation.
rarebrush.com

Re: The making of Pacific Rim

[Ognjen Vukovic]

Awesome,
Thanks Chris.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Chris Chia  wrote:

> oops, typo.
> Product featured: Maya, Softimage, Zbrush
>
> lol
> 
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Chris Chia
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:08 PM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: OT: The making of Pacific Rim
>
> Saw this which is posted a day ago.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBfMPFmmm4&feature=youtu.be
>
> Autodesk M&E Product featured: Maya, Softimage, ZBrush.
>
> and who said Softimage is not used in any big project.
> Thanks for all the creative works guys!
>
>
>

Re: FBX issues

[Chris Chia]

I am not familiar with FBX and I am not at my work place right now.

But I am thinking whether you can use the camera sequencer to scale by to 25 
fps?


On 19 Jul, 2013, at 11:00 PM, "Sandy Sutherland"  
wrote:

> OK so we are exporting out of 2014 SP2 our crowdFX stuff using FBX with 
> nulls.  Problem - our scenes are all PAL so 25fps settings. The FBX seems to 
> default to 30 fps so when we import the FBX file it sets our scene to 30 - 
> and there seems to be no way to stop that or avoid it!  So - how do we do 
> this now?  There used to be an FPS setting in the FBX options, it has gone 
> AWOL and it is really needed!
> 
> We did try then resetting the scene to 25, but this seems to introduce a 
> couple of bumps and slight pops in the animation so is not really a solution 
> as we do not want to have to go in and try and clean animation up!
> 
> Any ideas how to get round this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> S.
> 
> 
<>

FBX issues

[Sandy Sutherland]

OK so we are exporting out of 2014 SP2 our crowdFX stuff using FBX with 
nulls.  Problem - our scenes are all PAL so 25fps settings. The FBX 
seems to default to 30 fps so when we import the FBX file it sets our 
scene to 30 - and there seems to be no way to stop that or avoid it!  So 
- how do we do this now?  There used to be an FPS setting in the FBX 
options, it has gone AWOL and it is really needed!


We did try then resetting the scene to 25, but this seems to introduce a 
couple of bumps and slight pops in the animation so is not really a 
solution as we do not want to have to go in and try and clean animation up!


Any ideas how to get round this?

Thanks

S.

Re: FBX issues

[Chris Chia]

Sandy, is this fixed?


On 19 Jul, 2013, at 11:00 PM, "Sandy Sutherland"  
wrote:

> OK so we are exporting out of 2014 SP2 our crowdFX stuff using FBX with 
> nulls.  Problem - our scenes are all PAL so 25fps settings. The FBX seems to 
> default to 30 fps so when we import the FBX file it sets our scene to 30 - 
> and there seems to be no way to stop that or avoid it!  So - how do we do 
> this now?  There used to be an FPS setting in the FBX options, it has gone 
> AWOL and it is really needed!
> 
> We did try then resetting the scene to 25, but this seems to introduce a 
> couple of bumps and slight pops in the animation so is not really a solution 
> as we do not want to have to go in and try and clean animation up!
> 
> Any ideas how to get round this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> S.
> 
> 
<>

Re: Friday Flashback #129

[Rares Halmagean]

You mentioned the clown incident every once in a while but I don't think 
I ever saw pictures. Maybe a refresher is in order? (:-)


On 7/19/2013 3:24 PM, Greg Punchatz wrote:


I TOLD you not to look at it!!

*From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of 
*Ludovick Michaud

*Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 12:49 PM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
*Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #129

hahahaha along with the clown pic on Facebook


Ludovick William Michaud
mobile: *214.632.6756*

*www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud 
*


+Shading / Lighting / Compositing

+CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Lind > wrote:


And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That 
year was the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.


Matt

*From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
] *On Behalf Of *Greg 
Punchatz

*Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 


*Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #129

and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to 
Oooters (Hooters)




*Greg Punchatz*

*Sr. Creative Director*
Janimation
214.823.7760 
www.janimation.com 

On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:

Friday Flashback #129
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0,
Discreet launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5,
Pixologic had ZBrush 1.5, and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.
http://wp.me/powV4-2N1



--
*Rares Halmagean
___
*visual development and 3d character & content creation.
*rarebrush.com* 

Re: Friday Flashback #129

[Ludovick Michaud]

hahahaha along with the clown pic on Facebook

Ludovick William Michaud
mobile: *214.632.6756*
*www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud*
+Shading / Lighting / Compositing
+CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Lind wrote:

> And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That
> year was the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> Matt
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Punchatz
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* Re: Friday Flashback #129
>
> ** **
>
> and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters
> (Hooters)
> --
>
> *Greg Punchatz*
>
> *Sr. Creative Director*
> Janimation
> 214.823.7760
> www.janimation.com 
>
> On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
>
> Friday Flashback #129
> Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet
> launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush
> 1.5, and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.
> http://wp.me/powV4-2N1 
>
> ** **
>

Re: Cinefex

[Cristobal Infante]

Talking of which, cinefex have begun a kickstarter to get their back issues
on the ipad. At the moment you can get only the latest 4 I think, but this
promises to bring them all.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newscribbler/cinefex-classic-collection?ref=recently_launched

Currently on their ipad app their latest issues are only £2.99 (including
videos, making offs etc).









On 19 July 2013 10:49, adrian wyer  wrote:

> ** ** **
>
> agree that they are better kept in the office, great reference and good
> reading while waiting for simulations/renders
>
> ** **
>
> if you want back issues, i get mine from ebay, they're WAY cheaper than
> direct from Cinefex.
>
> ** **
>
> the problem for me with Cinefex, was that they used to have VERY in depth
> descriptions of HOW the cgi was done for a certain effect, these days it
> does tend to be a bit "...and we did it in CG."  not enough nerdy detail
> (for me the very reason the mag exists!)
>
> ** **
>
> a
>
> ** **
>  --
>
> *From:* **softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com** [mailto:**
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com**] *On Behalf Of *Martijn Verkuil
> *Sent:* 19 July 2013 06:58
> *To:* **softimage@listproc.autodesk.com**
> *Subject:* Re: Cinefex
>
> ** **
>
> I'm a subscriber. One of the few Softimage users I met in The Netherlands
> told me about it when I ran into him on a comic convention. I immediately
> took a subscription and I wanted to order a couple of those back issues but
> the shipping costs were insane (no combined shipping discount). So I would
> be interested in buying them if you could send them to Amsterdam,
> I'm sure the actual shipping costs would be much lower than cinefex asks.
> Just ldrop me an email what you've got for sale and if you're willing to
> send it to Amsterdam
>
> Cheers
> Martijn
>
> Op 19 jul. 2013 01:36 schreef "David Gallagher" <
> davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com> het volgende:
>
>
> Does anyone want about 17 old Cinefex's from early 2000s and late 1990s?
>
> Hate to just toss them, but...
>
> BTW, I haven't been seeing Cinefex around. Anyone reading it out there?
> Dave G
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Re: Scaling and displacement

[Eric Thivierge]

Way to pull a "Brad"


Eric Thivierge
===
Character TD / RnD
Hybride Technologies


On July-19-13 11:57:58 AM, Chris Covelli wrote:

Crapnvm figured it out, lol!

Chris Covelli
http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/
http://exocortex.com/products/species
TurboSquid Models



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Chris Covelli
mailto:ch...@polygonpusherinc.com>> wrote:

Hello!

Just wondering if anyone knows a handy expression or other method
that can take both the negative and positive values of a change
range node AND the Max Displacement param of the Geo Approx and
make them all relative to the scale of an overall SRT control.

Thanks!
Chris Covelli
http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/
http://exocortex.com/products/species
TurboSquid Models

RE: Friday Flashback #129

[Greg Punchatz]

I TOLD you not to look at it!!

 

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ludovick
Michaud
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:49 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

 

hahahaha along with the clown pic on Facebook




Ludovick William Michaud
mobile: 214.632.6756

www.linkedin.com/in/ludovickwmichaud

+Shading / Lighting / Compositing

+CG Supervisor / Sr. Technical Director / Creative Director

 

 

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Matt Lind 
wrote:

And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That year
was the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.

 

Matt

 

 

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

 

and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters
(Hooters)

  _  

Greg Punchatz

Sr. Creative Director
Janimation
214.823.7760
www.janimation.com 

On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:

Friday Flashback #129 
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet
launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush 1.5,
and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5. 
http://wp.me/powV4-2N1 

 

 

RE: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Chris Chia]

lol.
It's late night here... :(

Hope everyone continue to post great works and share them with us.
Thanks Alan for the headsup!


From: Eric Thivierge [ethivie...@hybride.com]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:09 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Cc: Chris Chia
Subject: Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

Zbrush is an AD M&E product??


Eric Thivierge
===
Character TD / RnD
Hybride Technologies


On July-19-13 10:08:28 AM, Chris Chia wrote:
> Saw this which is posted a day ago.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBfMPFmmm4&feature=youtu.be
>
> Autodesk M&E Product featured: Maya, Softimage, ZBrush.
>
> and who said Softimage is not used in any big project.
> Thanks for all the creative works guys!
>
>

<>

Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Eric Thivierge]

Zbrush is an AD M&E product??


Eric Thivierge
===
Character TD / RnD
Hybride Technologies


On July-19-13 10:08:28 AM, Chris Chia wrote:

Saw this which is posted a day ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBfMPFmmm4&feature=youtu.be

Autodesk M&E Product featured: Maya, Softimage, ZBrush.

and who said Softimage is not used in any big project.
Thanks for all the creative works guys!

RE: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Chris Chia]

Was just too excited and wanted to share the link...

Alan, hope there's another studio which would talk about its making in 
Softimage...


From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Gustavo Eggert Boehs 
[gustav...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:25 PM
To: SI mailing list
Subject: Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

Zbrush is an AD M&E product??

Its SIGGRAPH time, who knows? Time to buy a new company?
lol
<>

Re[2]: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Mathieu Leclaire]

OK... I guess that's my cue then...


We here at Hybride used a lot of ICE to create the motion graphics inside the 
Jaegers... but there's not much to say, on my part anyway. We trained our staff 
and created a few ICE based tools over the years so that they could do these 
type of effects on their own. I was mostly only involved in debugging some 
stuff and doing a few prototypes/suggestions of certain more complex graphic 
effects. I was mainly busy working on White House Down, so I've been a bit out 
of the loop on Pacific Rim. I wish I could tell you more, but I don't really 
have much information. I know there's a lot of people who worked very hard to 
make these graphics as cool as possible. I'm very proud of my crew who are now 
comfortable enough to tackle such complex motion graphic projects using ICE on 
their own, freeing me and my team up to focus on other more complex technical 
challenges. Not all graphics where done
using ICE. Some stuff was done with Cinema 4D, After Effects, Fusion, Flames, 
etc. But the more complex graphics where pretty much all ICE based.

So yeah... lots of Softimage based effects where used on Pacific Rim from many 
vendors... Who said Softimage wasn't used on films? We've been doing a few 
miracles with it for years here at Hybride and we've worked on quite a few 
films. You can do whatever you want with Softimage as long as you take the time 
to set it up properly.


I'll be at SIGGRAPH with some of my R&D colleagues (Guillaume Laforge, Eric 
Thivierge & Julien Couet). Feel free to come and chat us up if ever you cross 
our path. We'll participate in the deep compositing birds of a feather on 
Monday and on the Fabric Engine birds of a feather on Wednesday, showing a 
preview of some of our in house tools we are working on. I'll also be keeping 
an eye on this mailing list if ever you have questions about our work.


Cheers,


Mathieu Leclaire
Head of R&D
Hybride Technologies, a Ubisoft division


-Original Message- 
> From: "Chris Chia"  
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
> Date: 07/19/13 10:33 
> Subject: RE: OT: The making of Pacific Rim 
> 
> Was just too excited and wanted to share the link...
> 
> Alan, hope there's another studio which would talk about its making in 
> Softimage...
> 
>  
 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Gustavo Eggert Boehs 
[gustav...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:25 PM
> To: SI mailing list
> Subject: Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim
> 
>  
 Zbrush is an AD M&E product??
> 
Its SIGGRAPH time, who knows? Time to buy a new company?
lol
 
 
 

RE: Friday Flashback #129

[Matt Lind]

And I arranged the first siggraph dinner which had 11 attendees.  That year was 
the smallest overall attendance I could remember for a Siggraph.

Matt


From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:34 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #129

and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters 
(Hooters)

Greg Punchatz
Sr. Creative Director
Janimation
214.823.7760
www.janimation.com
On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
Friday Flashback #129
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, Discreet 
launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic had ZBrush 1.5, 
and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.
http://wp.me/powV4-2N1

Friday Flashback #129

[Stephen Blair]

Friday Flashback #129
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, 
Discreet launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic 
had ZBrush 1.5, and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.

http://wp.me/powV4-2N1

Re: Friday Flashback #129

[Greg Punchatz]

and Brad Gabe wore socks with sandals... an Ludo wanted to go to Oooters 
(Hooters)


*Greg Punchatz*
*Sr. Creative Director*
Janimation
214.823.7760
www.janimation.com 
On 7/19/2013 12:15 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:

Friday Flashback #129
Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, where Softimage announced XSI 3.0, 
Discreet launched 3ds Max 5, Alias/Wavefront showed Maya 5, Pixologic 
had ZBrush 1.5, and Newtek demoed Lightwave 7.5.

http://wp.me/powV4-2N1

Re: Scaling and displacement

[Chris Covelli]

Crapnvm figured it out, lol!

Chris Covelli
http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/
http://exocortex.com/products/species
TurboSquid 
Models


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Chris Covelli
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Just wondering if anyone knows a handy expression or other method that can
> take both the negative and positive values of a change range node AND the
> Max Displacement param of the Geo Approx and make them all relative to the
> scale of an overall SRT control.
>
> Thanks!
> Chris Covelli
> http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/
> http://exocortex.com/products/species
> TurboSquid 
> Models
>

Scaling and displacement

[Chris Covelli]

Hello!

Just wondering if anyone knows a handy expression or other method that can
take both the negative and positive values of a change range node AND the
Max Displacement param of the Geo Approx and make them all relative to the
scale of an overall SRT control.

Thanks!
Chris Covelli
http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/
http://exocortex.com/products/species
TurboSquid 
Models

Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Gustavo Eggert Boehs]

>
> Zbrush is an AD M&E product??


Its SIGGRAPH time, who knows? Time to buy a new company?
lol

CrowdFX emitter orientation question

[Sandy Sutherland]

Hi again,

I am trying to emit from a directional emitter and then use group 
indexes on goals to make the different 'emitted' group go to their 
assigned goals - for some reason this does not work - the group index 
does not seem to filter through to the goal group index on the 
initialize collision avoidance node.


So I loaded the one scene in the sample scenes that has two groups 
moving towards each other on curves. These actors are emitted off normal 
mesh geometry so I am now trying that.  When I select from emitter and 
use a grid, the actors are rotated in random directions on spawn.  
According to the docs they should emit pointing down Z.


Any ideas?

Thanks

S.

RE: The making of Pacific Rim

[Chris Chia]

oops, typo.
Product featured: Maya, Softimage, Zbrush

lol

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Chris Chia
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:08 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

Saw this which is posted a day ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBfMPFmmm4&feature=youtu.be

Autodesk M&E Product featured: Maya, Softimage, ZBrush.

and who said Softimage is not used in any big project.
Thanks for all the creative works guys!


<>

Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Alan Fregtman]

This article is pretty good if you like reading:
http://www.fxguide.com/featured/monster-mayhem-pacific-rim/



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Chris Chia wrote:

> lol.
> It's late night here... :(
>
> Hope everyone continue to post great works and share them with us.
> Thanks Alan for the headsup!
>
> 
> From: Eric Thivierge [ethivie...@hybride.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:09 PM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Cc: Chris Chia
> Subject: Re: OT: The making of Pacific Rim
>
> Zbrush is an AD M&E product??
>
>
> Eric Thivierge
> ===
> Character TD / RnD
> Hybride Technologies
>
>
> On July-19-13 10:08:28 AM, Chris Chia wrote:
> > Saw this which is posted a day ago.
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBfMPFmmm4&feature=youtu.be
> >
> > Autodesk M&E Product featured: Maya, Softimage, ZBrush.
> >
> > and who said Softimage is not used in any big project.
> > Thanks for all the creative works guys!
> >
> >
>
>

OT: The making of Pacific Rim

[Chris Chia]

Saw this which is posted a day ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBfMPFmmm4&feature=youtu.be

Autodesk M&E Product featured: Maya, Softimage, ZBrush.

and who said Softimage is not used in any big project.
Thanks for all the creative works guys!


<>

Re: ICE: Picking geo from array of some kind

[Simon Reeves]

Ah thanks Vladimir, good to have more comfirmation anyway :)



Simon Reeves
London, UK
*si...@simonreeves.com*
*www.simonreeves.com*
*
*


On 19 July 2013 12:32, Vladimir Jankijevic wrote:

> there is no way to do this directly with geometry directly, as far as I'm
> aware. what you can do though, is switch randomly through what you're
> expecting to use the geometry for. Like if you are getting the position of
> those geos, you could switch that instead of the geo itself. but you
> already have a draft for that. So, I'm not of real help. Anyway, good luck
> with what you're trying to achieve :)
>
> Vladimir
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Simon Reeves wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm wanting to pick geometry based on an random value which I built into
>> an array of the same size as the number of points - but I'm not sure a way
>> to do it, I can't use geometry with* 'if'* I can't use* 'select case'*..
>> they don't like external geometry... Can't add them into an array, can't
>> convert to strings then back again
>>
>> The only thing I can think of at the moment is to go forward into the
>> tree, and make 3 different *'emit evenly from geometry' * which is a bit
>> brute force eh
>> *
>> *
>> I keep thinking of the way shape instance works where you pick an ID in a
>> group... I would like that now damn...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> *
>> *
>> *
>> *
>>
>>
>> Simon Reeves
>> London, UK
>> *si...@simonreeves.com*
>> *www.simonreeves.com*
>> *
>> *
>>
>
>

Re: ICE: Picking geo from array of some kind

[Vladimir Jankijevic]

there is no way to do this directly with geometry directly, as far as I'm
aware. what you can do though, is switch randomly through what you're
expecting to use the geometry for. Like if you are getting the position of
those geos, you could switch that instead of the geo itself. but you
already have a draft for that. So, I'm not of real help. Anyway, good luck
with what you're trying to achieve :)

Vladimir


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Simon Reeves  wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm wanting to pick geometry based on an random value which I built into
> an array of the same size as the number of points - but I'm not sure a way
> to do it, I can't use geometry with* 'if'* I can't use* 'select case'*..
> they don't like external geometry... Can't add them into an array, can't
> convert to strings then back again
>
> The only thing I can think of at the moment is to go forward into the
> tree, and make 3 different *'emit evenly from geometry' * which is a bit
> brute force eh
> *
> *
> I keep thinking of the way shape instance works where you pick an ID in a
> group... I would like that now damn...
>
> Any ideas?
> *
> *
> *
> *
>
>
> Simon Reeves
> London, UK
> *si...@simonreeves.com*
> *www.simonreeves.com*
> *
> *
>

ICE: Picking geo from array of some kind

[Simon Reeves]

Hey guys,

I'm wanting to pick geometry based on an random value which I built into an
array of the same size as the number of points - but I'm not sure a way to
do it, I can't use geometry with* 'if'* I can't use* 'select case'*.. they
don't like external geometry... Can't add them into an array, can't convert
to strings then back again

The only thing I can think of at the moment is to go forward into the tree,
and make 3 different *'emit evenly from geometry' * which is a bit brute
force eh
*
*
I keep thinking of the way shape instance works where you pick an ID in a
group... I would like that now damn...

Any ideas?
*
*
*
*


Simon Reeves
London, UK
*si...@simonreeves.com*
*www.simonreeves.com*
*
*
<>

RE: Cinefex

[adrian wyer]

agree that they are better kept in the office, great reference and good
reading while waiting for simulations/renders

 

if you want back issues, i get mine from ebay, they're WAY cheaper than
direct from Cinefex.

 

the problem for me with Cinefex, was that they used to have VERY in depth
descriptions of HOW the cgi was done for a certain effect, these days it
does tend to be a bit "...and we did it in CG."  not enough nerdy detail
(for me the very reason the mag exists!)

 

a

 

  _  

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martijn
Verkuil
Sent: 19 July 2013 06:58
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Cinefex

 

I'm a subscriber. One of the few Softimage users I met in The Netherlands
told me about it when I ran into him on a comic convention. I immediately
took a subscription and I wanted to order a couple of those back issues but
the shipping costs were insane (no combined shipping discount). So I would
be interested in buying them if you could send them to Amsterdam, I'm sure
the actual shipping costs would be much lower than cinefex asks. Just ldrop
me an email what you've got for sale and if you're willing to send it to
Amsterdam

Cheers
Martijn

Op 19 jul. 2013 01:36 schreef "David Gallagher"
 het volgende:


Does anyone want about 17 old Cinefex's from early 2000s and late 1990s?

Hate to just toss them, but...

BTW, I haven't been seeing Cinefex around. Anyone reading it out there?
Dave G

  _  

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