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
list@schnuer.comwrote:
By all accounts there would be many women along the European cost lines at
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:
Ok, never knew he was that lame.
2012/4/29 pete...@skynet.be
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
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
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
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
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
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com 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
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