Poor guy that Joe Alter person.
I still have the dongle for the initial "Shave and a Haircut" for Lightwave
on the shelf.
It never really worked properly and when Softimage bought into it, he
showed all the Lightwave users who did the endless beta-testing of his
broken code the highly raised middle
Wow, he comes across as such an arsehole! I didn't realize he
sued Disney for technology relating to Tangled also!
http://patentexaminer.org/2011/10/disney-sued-for-infringing-virtual-hair-raising-patent/
"The Westlake Village resident claims Disney “reverse engineered” his
technology, tweaking
I am so glad they are going cage free!
http://2dayinanimation.com/news/big-studios-promise-to-start-making-films-with-cage-free-animators/
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Fabian Schnuer Gohde
wrote:
> By all accounts there would be many women along the European cost lines at
> the time that had
Somehow I dont think Disney could have managed Rapunzels hair with 14 points
per guide hair, nor the crappy collisions©
But try and explain that to a copyright attorney.
I wonder how: long till he sues Softimage for ICE strands?
From: Dan Yargici
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 4:14 PM
To: softimag
Ok, never knew he was that lame.
2012/4/29
>
> Somehow I dont think Disney could have managed Rapunzels hair with 14
> points per guide hair, nor the crappy collisions©
> But try and explain that to a copyright attorney.
>
> I wonder how: long till he sues Softimage for ICE strands?
>
>
>
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Sounds like he's within his rights to protect his property, and you're not
going to beat a corporation like Disney by being Mr. Nice-guy. I think it's
important to protect the small developer who's taken it to the point where
they have a tool that people will pay for. Thiago, Helge, Holger, Eric
M
I remember a thread or post on the Splutterfish site a few years ago where they
announced Shave and a Haircut integration into Brazil/RS,
including some screenshots of the working tech with lots of instanced trees,
among other things.
A few months later they posted an update saying that they cou
Nobody likes when the big guy squashes the little guy (well, maybe the big
guy does), and in cases where it's black and white we should all rally the
flag and support the rights of those who need it. But there are more shades
of gray to every story, and certainly to this one.
If you knew more abou
he is certainly with in his rights to do so, but then one could argue the
issues we have today with patents. joe's patent is actually causing other
small developers grief. yeti by peregrine labs has chosen not to sell its
product in the US. there are other plugins, ornatrix and hairfarm which are
3
OK, I appreciate that, I was careful to say he comes across as an asshole,
not that he is. I'm still undecided really.
Still though...
“It’s a giant corporation that’s made a lot of money with my ideas and is
now going to put me out of business, essentially,”
...sounds pretty trite if you ask m
Actually, and sadly, it will.
When you consider the average customer, who definitely doesn't follow the
CGI news as much as we might, nor would care about this if he did, and how
few products there are for this specific problem (for maya it's shave, and
yeti, and that's about it), every license of
Yes, having lived in Sweden, I can confirm on points 1 and 3.
The skiing is kinda meh, but saddle-less bikes with 3 to 7 naked people
piled on top are a rather common sight in Stockholm during summer. They
might be during winter as well actually, but it's so F***ing dark all the
time you don't see
Yeah well I was coming from the "shave and yeti being apples and oranges except for the patent language part" angle for sure. Though I would expect most people would probably take the hint and start looking seriously at Houdini or Soft, but maybe that is giving them too much credit.-T-Original
i believe it could be for the how hairs are filled between guides...
http://goo.gl/qwnIX "Methods for defining smooth and continuous coordinate
systems in a volume comprised of a lattice structure of guide columns..."
he patented an essential part which is how we use guide hairs to control
render
another article.. more recent.
http://gametimeip.com/2012/03/01/of-the-patent-system-risk-taking-and-not-being-a-complete-puss-an-inventor-speaks-out/
s
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Steven Caron wrote:
> i believe it could be for the how hairs are filled between guides...
> http://goo.gl/
I'm sure Joe's intentions have been pretty good all along.
Certainly Shave has in the past been one of very few tools that worked even
a little bit well enough for production in this area, especially at a price
that small shops could afford.
However, I can say that he has made a number of people,
To be honest, I'm happy the Yeti guys are mentioning context and names.
The patent crap too often goes on behind closed courtains, unless it's
Apple and Google battling it out on a global scale, and people don't
realise how hurtful and dated the system is.
The fact that a "best obvious" solution i
All good points.
One further thought (and again, I'm not out to defend Joe, his product, or
his, uh, marketing style): I just read the article on the Disney suit.
Now I'm no lawyer (do we have any on the list? would that be a good thing
or not?) but I'm pretty sure that once he'd reached a settle
have you read their post? it says they came to an agreement. it sounds
pretty civil to me.
in my opinion it doesn't need to say that its joe's obligation to do so
because of an earlier dispute with disney. and please dont blame him its
just the law.
s
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Ed Manning
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ed Manning wrote:
> Now
> I'm no lawyer (do we have any on the list? would that be a good thing or
> not?) but I'm pretty sure that once he'd reached a settlement with Disney,
> he *obligated* himself, under the hurtful and dated system (how right that
> descripti
For the record, no, you don't paint yourself into corners like that.
A) a previous ruling that was settled and not appealed can't be reverted
due to a following ruling. Precedents establish protocols, but nothing can
be retroactive, or it'd be impossible to regulate anything.
B) even if it was the
BTW Verlet is suprisingly simple - we are using it in our fur and feather
system now.
Cheers
S.
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Sandy Sutherland
Technical Supervisor
sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za
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From: softimage-boun...@listp
yes.. And fast..
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Sandy Sutherland <
sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za> wrote:
> BTW Verlet is suprisingly simple - we are using it in our fur and
> feather system now.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> S.
>
> _
> Sandy Sutherland
> Technical Supervis
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