Re: Did I over-complicate this?

2013-04-25 Thread Eric Thivierge
I'm guessing that is highly dependent on the size of the studio as in my experience the bigger the studio, you gain a substantial amount of time for tools and RnD. Either that or some of us are just nerdy enough to go home at night and continue to tinker and build things. :) Certain projects I

Re: Did I over-complicate this?

2013-04-25 Thread Paul Griswold
Producers never will realize that spending a little extra up front will save them a TON later. I've got a client I've worked with for 6 years & I've tried to convince them of various ideas I've got on streamlining things. In 6 years, they've never even considered it once. Sadly deadlines are alm

Re: Did I over-complicate this?

2013-04-25 Thread Andy Moorer
It sounds reasonable to me, if a bit old-school. But there's nothing wrong with old-school! A more procedural approach might be to animate the connectors, perhaps as a particle system, and then to extrude strand trails behind them as the cords. The nice thing about this kind of approach is that it

Re: Did I over-complicate this?

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Griswold
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RE: Did I over-complicate this?

2013-04-22 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
hor and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:30 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Did I over-complicate this? I wan

Did I over-complicate this?

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Griswold
I wanted to ask for your collective wisdom on this. I have a project where I'm animating around 30 different cables. Some are USB, some Firewire, and so on. Initially for the storyboards I use PowerExtrude to lay out all the designs, but now I need to fly the cables down my curves. If I didn't