Re: OT: Modo 901 Sneak Peek

2015-04-10 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Hi Artur, here are some possible solutions and explanations for some of your issues: > > - Viewport has 4 camera modes: cursor, center, object and camera. I use > cursor which most of the cases works fine. General though, that's actually my > tag line for C4D "Most of the time it works fine" and

Re: OT: Modo 901 Sneak Peek

2015-04-09 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Hi Artur, Would you be kind enough to elaborate, so that I can make a few modelling tutorials if needed, after NAB and FMX. Thanks T > Modelling if I do I do it in SI because I personally think C4D it worse than > Houdini.

Re: Maxon sets up shop in Montreal

2015-03-19 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
For the people who are lucky enough to have met and worked with Alain, and/or the fruits of his labour, you may start imagining the quality of stuff coming Cinema 4D’s way. :-)

Re: Pre-modeled Threaded parts

2014-08-25 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Also, try https://grabcad.com On Aug 25, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Thomas Volkmann wrote: > Blender has a built-in bolt-factory. Just enable the addon. > >> Paul Griswold hat am 25. August >> 2014 um 16:10 geschrieben: >> >> There's a plug-in for Lightwave called quickBolt. It was fantastic for

Cinema 4D an option?

2014-07-31 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
animators e.t.c. equivalent to the industry standard. Having said that, this doesn't mean that they can't get better :-) Cheers Thanassis Athanasios Pozantzis 103b-245 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto, ON M4M 2S1 +1 (647) 294-7707

Re: Cinema 4D an option?

2014-07-31 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
I don't think so. You add the Constraint to the object (ball) and keyframe the parent in the "Target" field. I agree that the modo implementation looks very intuitive. > You would need 2 pose constraints though, one for each hand. > > > On 31 July 2014 18:45,

Re: Cinema 4D an option?

2014-07-31 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Yes! > Can C4D do this ? > > http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/tv/training/view.aspx?id=685 > > personally i think dynamic parenting is the shit. :P

Re: Cinema 4D an option?

2014-07-31 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
a couple more links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLaOSoNq0no octopus rig.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXoBV8g_aSc Cheers On 31 Jul 2014, at 07:16, Athanasios Pozantzis wrote: > Hi there. > C4D is a certainly very good option. > Some character animators say, that in cert

Re: Cinema 4D an option?

2014-07-31 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
ught version 9 when I dumped Lightwave and the character animation tools > were pretty much crap (which is why I own Softimage now). I heard they > updated them a while back, but I can’t really find any tutorials or even > examples that look anything but amateur at best. > Athanasios

Re: Stereo Render differences between versions

2014-06-12 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
just speculating here... is there a film shift (tilt shift) or film offset setting in the mix? that could be off if everything else is spot on my 2 cents > On 12 Jun 2014, at 18:16, Andre Zazzera wrote: > > Hey all, > > In an effort to start transitioning over to Maya, *sigh*, we've been doing

Re: Softimage user landing page from Maxon

2014-06-05 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
There was a rumour that solidangle was going to get more involved… I think the best thing to do is ask them and tell us what they told you :-) Cheers T > By the way there is an Arnold plugin on the way for C4D: > > http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=47&t=1149612 > > However it's not s

Re: Softimage user landing page from Maxon

2014-06-05 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Please feel free to contact me if you need anything else. This applies to everybody. If you need to ask workflow questions, I could either point you to the right direction or make a tutorial for you. On my vimeo page I did some small tutorials, and I wouldn't mind doing a few more if needed. ht

Re: Softimage user landing page from Maxon

2014-06-05 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Hi Steven, I don't work for Maxon, I'm just a beta tester/fanboy :-) With graphics drivers on Windows, sometimes the issues persist over a few versions. It's not always clear cut, as it may be related to other parts of your OS. The unfortunate fact is that Maxon themselves can't do anything abou

Re: Softimage user landing page from Maxon

2014-06-05 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Dear Steven, C4D is by FAR the most stable program in the industry. No joke. It ONLY crashes because of 3rd party related issues (plugins, drivers and OS) and graphics drivers is the most common reason. I'm not overselling C4D's stability here. If it "crashed all the time" it's probably somethin

Softimage user landing page from Maxon

2014-06-05 Thread Athanasios Pozantzis
Hi there, just in case you wanted to know, there's a new landing page for softimage users on the Maxon website. It has several useful links, including links to download the Trial version, a free Digital Tutors Softimage to C4D series, and links to free Cineversity videos. I guess everything you