Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Problem solved. There was some problem with my account. I talked to Peter from Ballistic and he fixed my password. Now watching! =) 2013/3/19 Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com Thanks. As far as I know everything should be instantaneous. People who bought it already told me anywhere between right away and 5 minutes (probably depending on whether they had a CGS account or not). Even if you had been banned from the forums or something like that, the account for purchases is always valid, and I know of no blocks of sorts. Probably just a database glitch, we occasionally get those on other parts of the site as well, big rushes on anything can race the servers' load balancing occasionally. For any issues you can just write to cg...@cgsociety.org They are monitoring that address extra close since it's a new features and they are aware of potential bugs/issues still being present and undiscovered. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.comwrote: Great news Raff ! I was hoping to get my hands on this course for a long time. Question: does anybody bought it already ? I've purchased some hours ago but I just can't log in. Don't know if its a site issue or my account being blocked by some reason. (already checked login credentials and stuff...) thanks
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Enrique, I have been mostly self taught for python and the workshop was great to get me in to a cleaner code syntax and learn some bits and pieces that have made tool development faster for me. Even though some of the topics in the beginning may seem simple it's worth going through them to pick up things here and there. I think anyone who wants to get a handle on the more technical side of Softimage should get the workshop. Raf goes at a good pace and explains things very well. Thanks for making the workshop available Raf! On Mar 19, 2013 4:02 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
+1 to what Eric said. Some of the stuff that Raff covered was good to know beforehand like how the python dispatch mechanism work in Softimage. His fast python prototyping techniques were also good examples for me. Also the in-depth description of traversing the scene graph in python is a must-know for any python Softimage TD. Learned a lot within those 2 months. ALOK GANDHI / chef directeur technique - lead technical director alok.gan...@modusfx.com mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com T: *450 430-0010 x225 F: *450 430-0009 www.modusfx.com http://www.modusfx.com - MODUS FX 120 Rue Turgeon, Sainte-Therese (Quebec) CANADA J7E 3J1 Follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ModusFX Twitter https://twitter.com/Modusfx ** On 19/03/2013 9:51 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: Enrique, I have been mostly self taught for python and the workshop was great to get me in to a cleaner code syntax and learn some bits and pieces that have made tool development faster for me. Even though some of the topics in the beginning may seem simple it's worth going through them to pick up things here and there. I think anyone who wants to get a handle on the more technical side of Softimage should get the workshop. Raf goes at a good pace and explains things very well. Thanks for making the workshop available Raf! On Mar 19, 2013 4:02 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com mailto:enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com mailto:adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com http://www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2641/5646 - Release Date: 03/03/13 Internal Virus Database is out of date.
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Thanks for the workshop! It's next on my purchase list for the studio (and for me...) -- Benjamin Clifford Davis www.moondog-animation.com office: +33 9 50 04 76 15 mobile: +33 6 88 48 54 50 6 bis avenue des Iles 74000 Annecy FRANCE On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Enrique, I have been mostly self taught for python and the workshop was great to get me in to a cleaner code syntax and learn some bits and pieces that have made tool development faster for me. Even though some of the topics in the beginning may seem simple it's worth going through them to pick up things here and there. I think anyone who wants to get a handle on the more technical side of Softimage should get the workshop. Raf goes at a good pace and explains things very well. Thanks for making the workshop available Raf! On Mar 19, 2013 4:02 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Great news Raff ! I was hoping to get my hands on this course for a long time. Question: does anybody bought it already ? I've purchased some hours ago but I just can't log in. Don't know if its a site issue or my account being blocked by some reason. (already checked login credentials and stuff...) thanks 2013/3/19 Ben Davis benjamincliffordda...@gmail.com Thanks for the workshop! It's next on my purchase list for the studio (and for me...) -- Benjamin Clifford Davis www.moondog-animation.com office: +33 9 50 04 76 15 mobile: +33 6 88 48 54 50 6 bis avenue des Iles 74000 Annecy FRANCE On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Enrique, I have been mostly self taught for python and the workshop was great to get me in to a cleaner code syntax and learn some bits and pieces that have made tool development faster for me. Even though some of the topics in the beginning may seem simple it's worth going through them to pick up things here and there. I think anyone who wants to get a handle on the more technical side of Softimage should get the workshop. Raf goes at a good pace and explains things very well. Thanks for making the workshop available Raf! On Mar 19, 2013 4:02 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
I have to second that Eric said, Being self taught means one can acquire some bad habbits or a poor understanding of basic principals. It never hurts to go back to the basics and it can often shed a much better understanding of what you thought you knew or understood. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Enrique, I have been mostly self taught for python and the workshop was great to get me in to a cleaner code syntax and learn some bits and pieces that have made tool development faster for me. Even though some of the topics in the beginning may seem simple it's worth going through them to pick up things here and there. I think anyone who wants to get a handle on the more technical side of Softimage should get the workshop. Raf goes at a good pace and explains things very well. Thanks for making the workshop available Raf! On Mar 19, 2013 4:02 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff -- Andre De Angelis
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
I purchased it last night, and have watched the first weeks worth of videos already. Really well paced, and clearly explained. I also agree with the order in which Raf is teaching things. I think that this is probably the best resource for someone who wants to become a Softimage TD. I'm going to convince the owner of our studio to purchase it as training material for our new TD's. Great job Raf! On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Andre De Angelis andre.deange...@gmail.com wrote: I have to second that Eric said, Being self taught means one can acquire some bad habbits or a poor understanding of basic principals. It never hurts to go back to the basics and it can often shed a much better understanding of what you thought you knew or understood. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Enrique, I have been mostly self taught for python and the workshop was great to get me in to a cleaner code syntax and learn some bits and pieces that have made tool development faster for me. Even though some of the topics in the beginning may seem simple it's worth going through them to pick up things here and there. I think anyone who wants to get a handle on the more technical side of Softimage should get the workshop. Raf goes at a good pace and explains things very well. Thanks for making the workshop available Raf! On Mar 19, 2013 4:02 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff -- Andre De Angelis
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Thanks Enrique, Let me know how much I owe you offline :p On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: I purchased it last night, and have watched the first weeks worth of videos already. Really well paced, and clearly explained. I also agree with the order in which Raf is teaching things. I think that this is probably the best resource for someone who wants to become a Softimage TD. I'm going to convince the owner of our studio to purchase it as training material for our new TD's. Great job Raf! On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Andre De Angelis andre.deange...@gmail.com wrote: I have to second that Eric said, Being self taught means one can acquire some bad habbits or a poor understanding of basic principals. It never hurts to go back to the basics and it can often shed a much better understanding of what you thought you knew or understood. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.comwrote: Enrique, I have been mostly self taught for python and the workshop was great to get me in to a cleaner code syntax and learn some bits and pieces that have made tool development faster for me. Even though some of the topics in the beginning may seem simple it's worth going through them to pick up things here and there. I think anyone who wants to get a handle on the more technical side of Softimage should get the workshop. Raf goes at a good pace and explains things very well. Thanks for making the workshop available Raf! On Mar 19, 2013 4:02 AM, Enrique Caballero enriquecaball...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome raff, I wish that it covered more advanced subjects. But the last 3 weeks or so seem interesting. Seeing as I'm mostly self-taught though, I wouldn't mind seeing how someone else goes about doing things, and seeing how it compares to what I discovered myself. So I'll be signing up!... Next paycheck :) -E On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Adam Sale adamfs...@gmail.com wrote: Nice!! On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff -- Andre De Angelis -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Thanks. As far as I know everything should be instantaneous. People who bought it already told me anywhere between right away and 5 minutes (probably depending on whether they had a CGS account or not). Even if you had been banned from the forums or something like that, the account for purchases is always valid, and I know of no blocks of sorts. Probably just a database glitch, we occasionally get those on other parts of the site as well, big rushes on anything can race the servers' load balancing occasionally. For any issues you can just write to cg...@cgsociety.org They are monitoring that address extra close since it's a new features and they are aware of potential bugs/issues still being present and undiscovered. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Fabricio Chamon xsiml...@gmail.com wrote: Great news Raff ! I was hoping to get my hands on this course for a long time. Question: does anybody bought it already ? I've purchased some hours ago but I just can't log in. Don't know if its a site issue or my account being blocked by some reason. (already checked login credentials and stuff...) thanks
Technical Direction workshop available stand-alone (CGS TODs)
Some shameless self promotion :) My Technical Direction workshop has finally been made available converted to self-paced training: http://tod.cgsociety.org/index.php/courses It's all the videos, assignments, literature (which is very little) and the most relevant/interesting assignment and tipstricks threads bundled together and offered with no tutoring for 117/130$ (connect member, non member). This is most likely the format I will do a next release in before taking on a properly tutored workshop again. Ignore the mention of Maya in the description, it was flagged with CGS but busy with the launch and all they haven't had time to rectify it yet. It's all XSI 7 and python 2.3 or above. Thanks for reading. Cheers, Raff
