Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

houdini never change hands like other software that several companies own them, / change developers etc.. etc..   El Martes, 17 de marzo, 2015 18:51:44, Adam Sale escribió: Thanks for that Gerbrand. I had started dabbling with Houdini over the spring and summer before the start of

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Thanks for that Gerbrand. I had started dabbling with Houdini over the spring and summer before the start of our new school year in September. My experiences with it were very positive, and I was having fun learning it. It made sense after a couple weeks mucking around with it. In the end I went wi

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

For anybody following this who's still on the fence let me put it simply: If you're used to XSI, and you have to do deformation work with Maya's OOTB toolset you either are insane, or about to go insane very quickly. Rig authoring and animation are mostly fine, but when it comes to deformation the

RE: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Curiously I ve been reading the transition guides you kindly wrote lately, thanks Jordi! I am sure that Houdini provides the scalability and resources to be an end to end solution. But for the time being thatdecision is not up to me. At AF we have a katana(vray) & maya pipe. Houdini is used fo

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

How are you finding your new found Houdini knowledge to be fitting into the needs of the marketplace? Are there many shops adopting it? Or are you a lone wolf or able to turnkey shots for people? I too have found Maya unintuitive and uninspiring. Houdini looks interesting but I'm wary of jumping on

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

I always worry that Houdini is not such a friendly app to be used as a 'backbone' as you (Jordi) phrase it. But I'm basing that on the logic that most of our 3d artists will HAVE to use it, but that's not really the case... I've started to settle into the idea that maya is OK for being the base, (

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

That certainly is a great approach but even better is if you go in the other direction, use Houdini as the backbone and render from Mantra/Arnold/Octane/PRMan/3Dlight/whatever as the FX live inside Houdini and therefore it is the natural backbone. Ultimately you will be using a myriad of tools

RE: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Hi Gerbrand, I understand you well! I recently started learning houdini myself. After quite a bit of meditation and evaluating other options,and although everyone around told me that the learning curve was steep, I d decided to give it a try anyway..Its been only 2 months for me using houdini,

RE: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

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Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

What a beautiful post and watching out for your fellow artists. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: > I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save > the life of a fellow artist. > > So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a point where I c

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

I'm about to throw myself at Houdini so this is great to hear. Thanks Gerbrand! DAN On 17 Mar 2015 12:12, "Gerbrand Nel" wrote: > I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save > the life of a fellow artist. > > So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a p

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Thanks! Good to hear some opinions :) Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com * *www.simonreeves.com * *www.analogstudio.co.uk * On 17 March 2015 at 16:05, Gerbrand Nel wrote: > Hey Simon > I've done a few Maya jobs as part

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Hey Simon I've done a few Maya jobs as part of a team the past few months. The people on the team were very experienced, helpful and patient with me. Doing this on your own is madness!! I did some rigging, and I actually think Maya is pretty good at creating rigs. Its the deformation of the rigg

Re: Scripting copy pasting of UV sets?

You're welcome hope it was useful! Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com * *www.simonreeves.com * *www.analogstudio.co.uk * On 17 March 2015 at 11:24, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Wow, thanks Simon and Eric. You guys are aweso

Re: Scripting copy pasting of UV sets?

Wow, thanks Simon and Eric. You guys are awesome :) Cheers Morten Den 16. marts 2015 kl. 14:29 skrev Eric Thivierge : > and run. Hopefully your objects are numbered sequentially starting from 0 > and up and doesn't have number padding. > > # Python > si = Application > > for i in xrange(si

Re: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

Can I ask, what areas having you been using Maya/Houdini that spurred you to make the post? I've been using Maya for a couple of months for scene assembly/rendering, (bringing in models/caches/assigning shaders/passes) so that's my only experience. Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.

RE: Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

excellent closing quote, Side Effects should use that in their commercials! "...there's a SOP for that!" a -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Gerbrand Nel Sent: 17 March 2015 10:12 To: softimage@l

Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini

I'm not getting anything out of posting this, except knowing I might save the life of a fellow artist. So I spent the last year learning Maya, and got to a point where I can compete against people straight out of collage. This got me a bit down, as I'm one of the more experienced softimage art