RE: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0
Awesome news! I have been waiting for this for ever. Exciting time! Thanks a lot Paul and I am looking forward to trying it, hopefully soon. Cheers. Vince Baertsoen Head of 3D T +1 212 337 3210 [http://www.themill.com/logos/MillDarkNight.png] The Mill 451 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013 themill.com | <http://www.themill.com/> themillblog.com | <http://www.themillblog.com/> @millchannel | <https://twitter.com/millchannel> facebook.com/millchannel<http://www.facebook.com/millchannel> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Paul Doyle [technove...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud to give you the first proper look at Canvas, our visual programming system for Fabric 2.0. Quick highlight video: https://vimeo.com/121492305 Tons more information here: http://fabricengine.com/canvas-videos/ This is the first part of the FE2.0 plan, and we'll be showing this in more detail at GTC on March 18th - please contact me if you want to meet up. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say, and hopefully getting you on the alpha/beta when we open things up (there is a sign up form on the Canvas page). Cheers, Paul and the rest of the Fabric team
RE: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk
I am sorry to add more to the list on this topic, but i wanted to share my thoughts with you all, from a different post i wrote on a different list. From different post: .. Like every job, it's all about the best talent and the best tools. I have been extremely lucky to have some of the best crew, but i have to say, the best tools make a huge difference in the process obviously. Softimage is a great all rounder, and we could NOT have done PETA without Softimage, in the time we have, if not at all. All the sim work, including hair, has been done in ICE, all done from scratch in few weeks. It's a great all rounder software, and ICE is the most powerful piece of kit i have seen in years. Visual programming is the future of our industry, and other industries too (gaming, interactive,...) I don't want to go off topic and reiterate what everyone has been expressing in the last week with great passion, but AD, shutting down Softimage, is probably one of the worst decision they made. The only advanced and forward thinking package they have and they shut it down in the most disrespectful way, it really hurts their reputation and not just in the Softimage community, but across the whole VFX industry. I wish AD had a better vision of the future of the overall CG industries, and would come up with a total new way of producing images, and more appropriate to new workflows and hardware, and they would transition not only Soft users but Max and Maya users too, to this new platform. I think Fabric Engine is what AD should have done, 5 years ago, and i am glad the guys at FE are generating competition, as competition create better products in general. I love what they are doing and i cannot wait to see the next few releases. They do have a great vision and understanding of where we all need to go. But to answer your question, currently, we use mainly: Zbrush for modeling, Mari for texturing, Maya/Softimage for animation, Softimage/Houdini for FX, and Maya/Softimage for rendering(AD please fix the render layers in Maya), Nuke for compositing and Softimage(and sometime C4D) for design/pitch work. But software are here to support the artists. Productivity and Creativity are key. So whatever software it is to answer these 2 questions, that what we will use. .. And after 15 years in CG, using a little bit Lightwave, 3Dsmax and Maya i still think Softimage is still the best. Anyway, thanks everyone for your passion ! Softimage, and the years of development and hard work from great engineers and great users deserve this fight, and i hope AD is listening and will act and deliver soon. Vince Baertsoen Head of CG T +1 212 337 3210 [http://www.themill.com/logos/MillLogo.png] The Mill 451 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013 themill.com | <http://www.themill.com/> themillblog.com | <http://www.themillblog.com/> @millchannel | <https://twitter.com/millchannel> facebook.com/millchannel<http://www.facebook.com/millchannel> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Jason S [jasonsta...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:41 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk +1! .. and I would also vouch to remove the bits about being "just a freelancer", as Tim is arguably FAR from being "just" that :) (still salivating at the XSI7 Splash Screen) AND.. http://vimeo.com/81081389 :) On 03/11/14 13:35, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: Tim Borgmann schreef op 11-3-2014 17:21: unfortunately my english is not good enough to express my feelings and thoughts about all this You could've easily left out the remark about your English. Nothing wrong with that. It's a very impressive statement!
Re: survey on visual programming
Done. Thanks for doing this, and i really hope it will help. Cheers. Sent from my iPhone Vince Baertsoen Head of CG T +1 212 337 3210 [http://www.themill.com/logos/MillLogo.png] The Mill 451 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013 themill.com | <http://www.themill.com/> themillblog.com | <http://www.themillblog.com/> @millchannel | <https://twitter.com/millchannel> facebook.com/millchannel<http://www.facebook.com/millchannel> On Mar 1, 2014, at 19:56, "Paul Doyle" mailto:technove...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi everyone – there has been some interesting discussion on the ICE thread about likes and dislikes. Fabric 2.0 will lend itself well to visual programming, and this is an area our team has a lot of experience in (most of our engineers worked on ICE) – we have our own views on what we want to achieve with FE over the next year or so, and now is a very good time for us to get your views. Hopefully they're aligned ;) I have setup a survey to enable us to collect responses, and I will share the results in the next few weeks – the questions are quite generic, there is nothing specific to Fabric. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7GGKHML Thanks, Paul
RE: Spherical Harmonics in ICE
Really nice! Vince Baertsoen co-head of CG The Mill NY Ext.: 2311 www.themill.com From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Vladimir Jankijevic [vladi...@elefantstudios.ch] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 3:52 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Spherical Harmonics in ICE Hey gang, I was diving into Spherical Harmonics the last few days and I wanted to share my results with you. I ended up with two custom ICE nodes to generate/evaluate Spherical Harmonic coefficients and learned a lot during this exercise. So in case anybody is interested please take a look: http://vimeo.com/71990801 on the vimeo page is a link to the scene and the source Cheers Vladimir
RE: Mill 98% Human
Hi everyone, Thank you so much on the great comments. It feels good to hear all this. It was such a pleasure working with the whole team and supervising this project. It's not every day you get a project with great script for a good cause, with good schedule and have time to RnD so much stuff. It was roughly 3 to 4 months of work, to get tools done and spot out of the door. Seriously we couldn't have done it without ICE in the time we had. I am always looking at any software for commercial, to get things done to a really high quality level, in a short amount of time, and i still can't find anything which can beat the combination XSi, ICE and Arnold. Everything on this project used ICE, from rig, muscle, skin, hair, rendering. I started early test on skin with syflex and handover to Jimmy with Verlet which was much faster while I was carrying on and finishing the muscle system and leading the project. Jimmy was working on the grooming of the hair and did a lot of super awesome compounds and scripts (yes he is being very modest). Dave did an amazing work on the hair interaction in a couple of weeks... like proper Siggraph paper staff... to get the stiffness and collision of the hairs right. On the muscle, it was one very simple and generic muscle which had a lot of control to expend to more complex shapes and dynamic. It was extremely fast, and could control stiffness, handles, tangeant, jiggle and more, through few parameters and weight maps. The main strength was the speed to setup the whole body. I just needed to place each muscles close to the skeleton geometry and they would stick to it automatically: zero rigging involved. Anyway XSi and ICE are awesome, i know i don't need to convince you guys. It's not just about the software it's a lot about the talents and people, but seriously...XSi/ICE help a lot! Thanks again for the feedback everyone. Best, Vince Baertsoen co-head of CG The Mill NY Ext.: 2311 www.themill.com From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of César Sáez [cesa...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:50 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Mill 98% Human Awesome work guys! Thanks for sharing :)
RE: Ice feathers..
Hi Stefan, Thats a very good question. I did look at it, it's a very nice plugin. I really like the collisions and how fast it is. But i wasn't satisfied with the grooming tools and distribution. Beside this, i had already a scattering tools from a previous job i did(trees setup) which had good elements for a feather system. http://www.themill.com/work/johnnie-walker/rock-giant.aspx And obviously the last point would be than it's all open and we can do pretty much whatever we want with it now. Cheers. Vince. Ext: 2311 Mobile: 917-664-1830 www.the-mill.com From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Kubicek [s...@tidbit-images.com] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 3:33 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. Hi Vince, welcome aboard! With all the recent talk about custom feather systems being developed and employed at Psyop and The Mill, I was wondering if you looked at mbFeathers (http://feathertools.michael-buettner.com/) before deciding to build your own system, and why you ended up investing the time and taking your own rout. I assume you were looking for specific features you could not find in, or build upon, mbFeathers? Simply out of curiosity, I'd love to understand what it was you couldn't find elsewhere that justified building a feather system from scratch. Cheers, Stefan > Thank you very much Bradley. > > Yes it's a full on ICE feather system. > I started to layer all the main compound from scratch at the beginning of > Hallmark, then Dave Barosin joined a month later and help me out with few > very helpful features and scripts. > > Version 1.0 of this feather system at the end of Hallmark was really nice, > but version 2.0 that Bradley actually worked on is absolutely amazing and > pleasure to use! > We had a very nice time brainstorming and figure out how to improve it. > Bradley did all the hard work, cleaning it up and build a very nice interface > around it. > > We are using it now for an other bird (i can't mentioned the project yet, but > it looks great), and we are using it for other type of scattering like leaves > for trees for exemple. > Very very useful! > > I can't wait to show you the next projects using it! > > And i am glad i am finally on the Softimage list > It was about time. > > Thanks again Bradley! > > Vince. > > Ext: 2311 > Mobile: 917-664-1830 > www.the-mill.com > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message > in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. > > Please use the following link to view The Mill Showreel 2012. > http://www.themill.com/work/the-mill-showreel-2012.aspx > > > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe > [witha...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:04 AM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. > > You are correct. :-) > > This would be a good time to introduce Vince Baertsoen, VFX Supe here at The > Mill in NYC. He's the bearded fellow who appears at 1:25 in the video, and I > believe the main architect behind the feather system, along with David > Barosin. > > I've been working with Vince since the beginning of the year, a super nice > fellow who really should be more visible in the community, especially > considering The Mill here in NY are using ICE like crazy and are on the prowl > for talent. > > -Bradley > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Adam Seeley > mailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > I spy Ice feathers > > https://vimeo.com/43978044# > > Adam. > > > -- --- Stefan Kubicek Co-founder --- keyvis digital imagery Wehrgasse 9 - Grüner Hof 1050 Vienna Austria Phone:+43/699/12614231 --- www.keyvis.at ste...@keyvis.at --- -- This email and its attachments are --confidential and for the recipient only--
RE: Ice feathers..
You are sadly very good at this. :) Vince. Ext: 2311 Mobile: 917-664-1830 www.the-mill.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Please use the following link to view The Mill Showreel 2012. http://www.themill.com/work/the-mill-showreel-2012.aspx From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe [witha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:07 PM To: mailgrahamdcl...@gmail.com; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. I had nothing to do with their lovely Hallmark spot, though I will accept credit for finally getting Vince subscribed on this list. My job is to make cynical remarks and then fabricate and send silly production images to my coworkers. ;-) -B On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Graham D. Clark mailto:mailgrahamdcl...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Vince Baertsoen mailto:vi...@themill.com>> wrote: Actually Graham Clark try to put me on it a year or 2 ago, but i don't know what i did, it worked for couple of weeks and i lost connection Vince how can you do so much with ICE but the internet be so tough :p cheers Vince, your spot looks great and please say hi and congrats to Yann and Brad too. -- Graham D Clark, Head of Stereography, Deluxe 3D dba Stereo D phone: why-I-stereo http://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamclark
RE: Ice feathers..
hahaha i know i am terrible with this. But look, i am getting better. Thanks a lot, i will pass on the good words. Vince. Ext: 2311 Mobile: 917-664-1830 www.the-mill.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Please use the following link to view The Mill Showreel 2012. http://www.themill.com/work/the-mill-showreel-2012.aspx From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Graham D. Clark [mailgrahamdcl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:02 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Vince Baertsoen mailto:vi...@themill.com>> wrote: Actually Graham Clark try to put me on it a year or 2 ago, but i don't know what i did, it worked for couple of weeks and i lost connection Vince how can you do so much with ICE but the internet be so tough :p cheers Vince, your spot looks great and please say hi and congrats to Yann and Brad too. -- Graham D Clark, Head of Stereography, Deluxe 3D dba Stereo D phone: why-I-stereo http://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamclark
RE: Ice feathers..
Thanks a lot Guillaume. J'espere a tres bientot a Montreal! Vince. Ext: 2311 Mobile: 917-664-1830 www.the-mill.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Please use the following link to view The Mill Showreel 2012. http://www.themill.com/work/the-mill-showreel-2012.aspx From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Guillaume Laforge [guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:46 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. Beautiful work ! Le bonjour en passant Vince :). On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Bradley Gabe mailto:witha...@gmail.com>> wrote: You are correct. :-) This would be a good time to introduce Vince Baertsoen, VFX Supe here at The Mill in NYC. He's the bearded fellow who appears at 1:25 in the video, and I believe the main architect behind the feather system, along with David Barosin. I've been working with Vince since the beginning of the year, a super nice fellow who really should be more visible in the community, especially considering The Mill here in NY are using ICE like crazy and are on the prowl for talent. -Bradley On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Adam Seeley mailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com>> wrote: I spy Ice feathers https://vimeo.com/43978044# Adam.
RE: Ice feathers..
Actually Graham Clark try to put me on it a year or 2 ago, but i don't know what i did, it worked for couple of weeks and i lost connection Anyway, it's all good now. Vince. Ext: 2311 Mobile: 917-664-1830 www.the-mill.com From: a...@andynicholas.com [a...@andynicholas.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:20 PM To: Vince Baertsoen; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Ice feathers.. > And i am glad i am finally on the Softimage list > It was about time. Seriously? Were you not on it before?!! Glad you finally made it :) On 14 June 2012 at 16:16 Vince Baertsoen wrote: > Thank you very much Bradley. > > Yes it's a full on ICE feather system. > I started to layer all the main compound from scratch at the beginning of > Hallmark, then Dave Barosin joined a month later and help me out with few very > helpful features and scripts. > > Version 1.0 of this feather system at the end of Hallmark was really nice, but > version 2.0 that Bradley actually worked on is absolutely amazing and pleasure > to use! > We had a very nice time brainstorming and figure out how to improve it. > Bradley did all the hard work, cleaning it up and build a very nice interface > around it. > > We are using it now for an other bird (i can't mentioned the project yet, but > it looks great), and we are using it for other type of scattering like leaves > for trees for exemple. > Very very useful! > > I can't wait to show you the next projects using it! > > And i am glad i am finally on the Softimage list > It was about time. > > Thanks again Bradley! > > Vince. > > Ext: 2311 > Mobile: 917-664-1830 > www.the-mill.com > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in > error, please notify us and remove it from your system. > > Please use the following link to view The Mill Showreel 2012. > http://www.themill.com/work/the-mill-showreel-2012.aspx > > > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe > [witha...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:04 AM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. > > You are correct. :-) > > This would be a good time to introduce Vince Baertsoen, VFX Supe here at The > Mill in NYC. He's the bearded fellow who appears at 1:25 in the video, and I > believe the main architect behind the feather system, along with David > Barosin. > > I've been working with Vince since the beginning of the year, a super nice > fellow who really should be more visible in the community, especially > considering The Mill here in NY are using ICE like crazy and are on the prowl > for talent. > > -Bradley > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Adam Seeley > mailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > I spy Ice feathers > > https://vimeo.com/43978044# > > Adam. > > >
RE: Ice feathers..
hahaha... yes... i wish i had some time on this evening to stick around and joined you guys...i had way too many meetings. Anyway this year, i 'll arrange my schedule ahead and make sure i'll be there. Vince. Ext: 2311 Mobile: 917-664-1830 www.the-mill.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Please use the following link to view The Mill Showreel 2012. http://www.themill.com/work/the-mill-showreel-2012.aspx From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jens Lindgren [jens.lindgren@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:16 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. I actually met Vince last year at Siggraph. Very mystical man. Disappeared early from the Softimage dinner and the only trace of him was a pile of business cards :) /Jens On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Amaan Akram mailto:xsil...@warpedspace.org>> wrote: Vince, show yourself! :) Brad got it spot on. Super nice guy, super skilled too. On 14 June 2012 16:01, Eric Thivierge mailto:ethivie...@gmail.com>> wrote: WE WANT VINCE, WE WANT VINCE!! Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Adam Seeley mailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com>> wrote: Wondered why I didn't recognise the name... come on in Vince, the water's warm. A. From: Bradley Gabe mailto:witha...@gmail.com>> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2012, 15:04 Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. You are correct. :-) This would be a good time to introduce Vince Baertsoen, VFX Supe here at The Mill in NYC. He's the bearded fellow who appears at 1:25 in the video, and I believe the main architect behind the feather system, along with David Barosin. I've been working with Vince since the beginning of the year, a super nice fellow who really should be more visible in the community, especially considering The Mill here in NY are using ICE like crazy and are on the prowl for talent. -Bradley On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Adam Seeley mailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com>> wrote: I spy Ice feathers https://vimeo.com/43978044# Adam. -- 3D Artist/TD @ The Mill, London http://www.amaanakram.com -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios<http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/>
RE: Ice feathers..
Thank you very much Bradley. Yes it's a full on ICE feather system. I started to layer all the main compound from scratch at the beginning of Hallmark, then Dave Barosin joined a month later and help me out with few very helpful features and scripts. Version 1.0 of this feather system at the end of Hallmark was really nice, but version 2.0 that Bradley actually worked on is absolutely amazing and pleasure to use! We had a very nice time brainstorming and figure out how to improve it. Bradley did all the hard work, cleaning it up and build a very nice interface around it. We are using it now for an other bird (i can't mentioned the project yet, but it looks great), and we are using it for other type of scattering like leaves for trees for exemple. Very very useful! I can't wait to show you the next projects using it! And i am glad i am finally on the Softimage list It was about time. Thanks again Bradley! Vince. Ext: 2311 Mobile: 917-664-1830 www.the-mill.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Please use the following link to view The Mill Showreel 2012. http://www.themill.com/work/the-mill-showreel-2012.aspx From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe [witha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:04 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Ice feathers.. You are correct. :-) This would be a good time to introduce Vince Baertsoen, VFX Supe here at The Mill in NYC. He's the bearded fellow who appears at 1:25 in the video, and I believe the main architect behind the feather system, along with David Barosin. I've been working with Vince since the beginning of the year, a super nice fellow who really should be more visible in the community, especially considering The Mill here in NY are using ICE like crazy and are on the prowl for talent. -Bradley On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Adam Seeley mailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com>> wrote: I spy Ice feathers https://vimeo.com/43978044# Adam.
