Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Jason S
a */gem/* of an idea ^_^ On 03/11/14 20:00, Francisco Criado wrote: someone with a good dslr should have to be recording its screen with this email now, for later making of on how and when this started ;) On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Bk > wrote: Wow I thought y

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Chapman
this, as far as I am aware inside a gmail client running on win7 *is* a new thread... On 11 March 2014 23:54, Bk wrote: > Wow I thought you'll all just label me a naive fool. Thanks for the > positive responses! > Ok, This isn't the best start, but how do I open a new thread? I've not > done th

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Perry Harovas
A few things: 1) I am a generalist, but have good modeling skills and lighting/rendering skills. I am also a Nuke user, and could help composite. 2) Happy to also lend my story for the "Life afterXSI" doc of being a longtime Maya user, who co-authored the first book about Maya http://www.ama

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Jason S
On 03/11/14 20:17, David Saber wrote: This project needs a forum on its own, where you could announce tasks to be done and people would pick them up and work on them. Indeed!

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Bk
Wow I thought you'll all just label me a naive fool. Thanks for the positive responses! Ok, This isn't the best start, but how do I open a new thread? I've not done that before. On 11 Mar 2014, at 23:50, Christian Lattuada wrote: > YES, Paul, let's do it. > Open a new thread. > >

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Christian Lattuada
I'm a generalist too. But let's talk tomorrow. I look forward to see how many will join. .:. Christian Lattuada On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Jason S wrote: > a *gem* of an idea ^_^ > > > On 03/11/14 20:00, Francisco Criado wrote: > > someone with a good dslr should have t

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Bk
Cant sleep. That's a good idea too. Making something like that would be a valid and rational response and not entirely unexpected. Why not start it? It's doesnt have to be an either/or. This idea is a bit 'crazy' and as such I believe would gather wider media attention as there is more of a st

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Cristobal Infante
I could be wrong but maybe the sensible thing to do would be to compile a softimage showreel with the best work out there. We could add some narration or text to tell the story. A Dropbox could be setup were people and companies upload their clips. On Wednesday, 12 March 2014, Perry Harovas wr

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Francisco Criado
i'm generalist too, con also do compositing. On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > I'm a Modeller, prefer characters but Multi-purpose. > > I think it would be good for this effort to focus around a character, it > makes it easier for an audience to identify, they're are some b

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Perry Harovas
I would be willing to put in some time, and I think it is an excellent idea Paul. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bk wrote: > Hi I'm Paul Smith, > If you don't know me, I'm an ICE enthusiast, having made around 150 or so > tutorials on Vimeo. > I also did the Greg Mutt blue hippy cats avatar r

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Bk
Ok, I can't sleep and have had an idea. I think it would be good to make a visual metaphor of the situation. I've been thinking that we would need to do something that could be attacked modularly and allows a huge variety in styles coming together. What we also have in our favour is that we come

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Jason S
I wouldn't necessarily call it a "fight" but more of a "plea" On 03/11/14 20:37, Emilio Hernandez wrote: 3D generalist, character->modeling, rigging. mid ICE level. Comp, editing and VFX here ready for battle. --- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Jason S
+1 Would be willing to chip-in! Also, while it would clearly be beneficial to have a peice specifically for that, how about a "well put together" editing of Softimage.TV Material? (witth each Company's Logos/autor Name clearly watermarked) On 03/11/14 19:41, Paul Griswold wrote: I'd be in jus

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Jason S
Ditto Generalist/comp/matte paintings On 03/11/14 20:28, Francisco Criado wrote: i'm generalist too, con also do compositing. On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Sebastien Sterling mailto:sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm a Modeller, prefer characters but Multi-purpose. I think it

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Bk
Sorry I meant to start a new topic for this. On 11 Mar 2014, at 23:24, Bk wrote: > Hi I'm Paul Smith, > If you don't know me, I'm an ICE enthusiast, having made around 150 or so > tutorials on Vimeo. > I also did the Greg Mutt blue hippy cats avatar review thing that went viral > a few yea

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
3D generalist, character->modeling, rigging. mid ICE level. Comp, editing and VFX here ready for battle. --- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. 2014-03-11 18:28 GMT-06:00 Francisco Criado : > i'm generalist too, con also do compositing.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Bk
Thanks hugely ! I guess if we stand a chance of pulling this off, we'd need to work out how many people we have in each discipline and make an idea that's feasible with the available resources. It would be good to know what everyone does. I'm a generalist with a leaning toward characters and h

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Eugene Flormata
generalist, I'd prefer to animate something though. I never get to do that enough at work. someone make a google spreadsheet for everyone to use? On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > 3D generalist, character->modeling, rigging. mid ICE level. > > Comp, editing and VFX her

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
We need a writer for a start. El mar 12, 2014 2:13 AM, "Bk" escribió: > Cant sleep. > > That's a good idea too. Making something like that would be a valid and > rational response and not entirely unexpected. Why not start it? It's > doesnt have to be an either/or. > > This idea is a bit 'crazy'

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Artur Woźniak
Holy crap. this could work. Artur 2014-03-12 1:32 GMT+01:00 Jason S : > Ditto Generalist/comp/matte paintings > > > On 03/11/14 20:28, Francisco Criado wrote: > > i'm generalist too, con also do compositing. > > On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Sebastien Sterling < > sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com> w

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Artur Woźniak
Awesome idea. Artur 2014-03-12 0:24 GMT+01:00 Bk : > Hi I'm Paul Smith, > If you don't know me, I'm an ICE enthusiast, having made around 150 or so > tutorials on Vimeo. > I also did the Greg Mutt blue hippy cats avatar review thing that went > viral a few years ago. > > Now, this may seem like

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Artur Woźniak
and a script to begin with? 2014-03-12 1:21 GMT+01:00 Jason S : > On 03/11/14 20:17, David Saber wrote: > > This project needs a forum on its own, where you could announce tasks to > be done and people would pick them up and work on them. > > Indeed! > >

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
I can afford to through some time into a storyboard/animatic tomorrow. just for tests :P On 12 March 2014 00:36, Artur Woźniak wrote: > Holy crap. > this could work. > > Artur > > > 2014-03-12 1:32 GMT+01:00 Jason S : > > Ditto Generalist/comp/matte paintings >> >> >> On 03/11/14 20:28, Franci

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Francisco Criado
someone with a good dslr should have to be recording its screen with this email now, for later making of on how and when this started ;) On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Bk wrote: > Wow I thought you'll all just label me a naive fool. Thanks for the > positive responses! > Ok, This isn't the best sta

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Pejril
Hi Paul, I am definitely on board with this idea. Especially since it is because of your videos I was even able to initially make heads or tails out of ICE. Thank you so much for taking the time to create those tutorials. I'm not sure if you know how much of an impact you've had on others, but

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Chapman
oh and heartily agree its a great idea yes, but logistically so difficult to organise :) willing to put some time in for sure, ICE FX artist/TD, Softimage user for EIGHTEEN YEARS btw on a similar vein did you see the incentive that Oliver already started called http://www.3dwillneverbethesame.co

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Bk
Just to add a bit. The media love stories like this. With some interesting visual they can link to. Even if nobody cares about the cause, simply the fact that a bunch of professional people from around the globe got together to make a protest film is enough to make a decent article. I can imagin

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Eugene Flormata
I've always enjoyed your videos pooby! I'm only on 2013 but I'd like to help out if i could! On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Bk wrote: > Just to add a bit. The media love stories like this. With some interesting > visual they can link to. > Even if nobody cares about the cause, simply the fact

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
I am in! --- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. 2014-03-11 17:48 GMT-06:00 Eugene Flormata : > I've always enjoyed your videos pooby! I'm only on 2013 but I'd like to > help out if i could! > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Bk wrote:

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
We can make both. On 12 March 2014 00:54, javier gonzalez wrote: > I think that is better make something like "Life after Pi", documentary > gender to explain what is hapening and what the comunity wants, also with > random interviews to studios and relevant peoples. 2cents > > > 2014-03-12 1:4

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Artur Woźniak
3D Generalist, non-character animation, rendering, some nuke, VFX 2014-03-12 1:41 GMT+01:00 Eugene Flormata : > generalist, I'd prefer to animate something though. I never get to do that > enough at work. > someone make a google spreadsheet for everyone to use? > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:37

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
My modelling skills are at your service Sir Smith. "You wave my Sword !" On 11 March 2014 23:50, Christian Lattuada wrote: > YES, Paul, let's do it. > Open a new thread. > > .:. > Christian Lattuada > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Bk wrote: > >> Hi I'm Paul Smith, >> If

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Griswold
I'd be in just for a chance to work with an amazing talent like you Pooby! Add me to the list and let me know how I can help. -Paul — Sent from Mailbox for iPad On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bk wrote: > Hi I'm Paul Smith, > If you don't know me, I'm an ICE enthusiast, having made aroun

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Pejril
Paul, I think that is a great way to showcase all the different types of work and styles of animation created by Softimage and the community. Everyone can play up to their strengths and as you said, even reuse personal assets. What type of time frame are we considering? On 3/11/2014 10:03 PM,

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
If the Piece can be made, then the making off will follow :P, I'm just exited for the opportunity to play with My/our favourite toy :) On 12 March 2014 01:12, Artur Woźniak wrote: > Yeah, like the movie and making off. > > Artur > > > 2014-03-12 2:09 GMT+01:00 Sebastien Sterling >: > > We can

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Jason S
Could make both as one. On 03/11/14 21:09, Sebastien Sterling wrote: We can make both. On 12 March 2014 00:54, javier gonzalez > wrote: I think that is better make something like "Life after Pi", documentary gender to explain what is hapening and what

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Christian Lattuada
YES, Paul, let's do it. Open a new thread. .:. Christian Lattuada On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Bk wrote: > Hi I'm Paul Smith, > If you don't know me, I'm an ICE enthusiast, having made around 150 or so > tutorials on Vimeo. > I also did the Greg Mutt blue hippy cats avatar

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Artur Woźniak
Yeah, like the movie and making off. Artur 2014-03-12 2:09 GMT+01:00 Sebastien Sterling : > We can make both. > > > On 12 March 2014 00:54, javier gonzalez wrote: > >> I think that is better make something like "Life after Pi", documentary >> gender to explain what is hapening and what the com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Francisco Criado
if i can help in anything, count me in! F. On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Perry Harovas wrote: > I would be willing to put in some time, and I think it is an excellent > idea Paul. > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bk > > > wrote: > >> Hi I'm Paul Smith, >> If you don't know me, I'm an ICE e

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread David Saber
I'm definitely on the side of those with a fighting spirit. I'm willing to invest the free time I (try to) have to help you. This project needs a forum on its own, where you could announce tasks to be done and people would pick them up and work on them. See you then, David

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
I'm a Modeller, prefer characters but Multi-purpose. I think it would be good for this effort to focus around a character, it makes it easier for an audience to identify, they're are some beautiful ICE showcases out there, but they remain abstract, and whilst we can appreciate the ingenuity, we wi

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread javier gonzalez
I think that is better make something like "Life after Pi", documentary gender to explain what is hapening and what the comunity wants, also with random interviews to studios and relevant peoples. 2cents 2014-03-12 1:45 GMT+01:00 Jason S : > I wouldn't necessarily call it a "fight" but more of

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Bk
I'm not very good at sensible but I'd contribute to that too, but let's not try and either / or this. The more things we can do the better and there will always be different ideas of what's the best course of action. It's a subjective thing and the most likely reason any of this will fail is d

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Greg Punchatz
I am in.. I would be happy to edit it all together into a cohesive piece . Put music to it etc Hey Dallas softimage peeps, l can help you get your story told as well just give me a shout. I would love to interview people that I know that worked with soft for only a short time that wanted to

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Pejril
I am a generalist in Softimage with ICE skills, animation and rendering (recently I have been using 3delight and Redshift). I have a background in character animation and medical animation. As Perry had mentioned, we are in the same location and could work on sections together. I am excited for

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Tim Leydecker
Hi guys, how about not using softimage any more to start with? I would think it could be an interesting concept to do a "talking heads" documentary spoof, similar to those history channel documentaries about the great patriotic war, the donut crisis or how Fairy Ultra changed the way we do th

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Perry Harovas
Paul, this is a fantastic idea. I like the positive aspect of it, even though when I thought it was going another way towards the end, I was laughing (I thought the idea was going to end with everyone leaving the planet so they didn't have to work in Maya, but that was just my anti-Maya showing thr

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com
I agree. There should be a "life after pi" tone to it, after the end of the video. Please tell me how I can provide you a dslr video. Maybe we all can send it to someone to edit lots of cuts/stories...anything under 5 minutes. Maybe saying: what was a big challenge in over 15 years or so and wha

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com
You know what would be awesome? To close the video saying it was graded and edited through vfx editor (inside xsi). Tomahawk slam! Enviado desde Yahoo Mail en Android

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Perry Harovas
; > Enviado desde Yahoo Mail en > Android<https://mx.overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> > > ------ > * From: * Perry Harovas ; > * To: * ; > * Subject: * Re: A germ of an idea. > * Sent: * Wed, Mar 12, 2014 2:27:59 AM > > Pa

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
not much time here, but in case it is need... generalist, leaning towards ice/fx stuff, can composite in nuke and after... but I guess if this is to be purist somene might shout "we need to use the fxtree" (:p) have access to mocap and red cameras, but not many world class landmarks around me... w

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Concerning the show piece. Before we start pitching, a small exercise might be good, just to get people thinking and pumped. What is being envisaged here, is effectively an ad. Would people post links to the most Awe inspiring ads they have seen, i don't just mean ads made with softimage. stuff i

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Rares Halmagean
This sounds like a fun way the bring this to the attention of the wider industry. I'd be glad to help any way I can. I bring character and prop modeling, shading, lighting, rendering, and some animation. Storyboards, matte painting and concept design experience as well. On 3/11/2014 6:24 PM

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-11 Thread Alok Gandhi
I am all for it. I can do any custom tools/ plugins development required, custom ICE nodes in C++ or any other tech stuff that needs to be developed. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Rares Halmagean wrote: > This sounds like a fun way the bring this to the attention of the wider > industry. I'

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread sc...@turbulenceffects.com
I'm a generalist, let me know how can help. Scott Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Jens Lindgren
Count me in! I'm a VFX Supervisor with broad knowledge of ICE and compositing in Nuke. /Jens On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:01 AM, sc...@turbulenceffects.com < sc...@turbulenceffects.com> wrote: > I'm a generalist, let me know how can help. > > Scott > > Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Thats would be lovely! In addition to what have been proposed, I was thinking ( since Softimage has been around for a very long time ) to do an action-oriented video thats shows the "history" of Softimage and all the great stuff that have been made with it- A small T-Rex walks around looking for

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Arvid Björn
Of course I'd contribute if there's something that needs tinkering. I'm a cg sup and generalist, leaned towards lighting and shading. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jens Lindgren wrote: > Count me in! I'm a VFX Supervisor with broad knowledge of ICE and > compositing in Nuke. > > /Jens > > > O

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Just wanted to chime in that I'd love to take part in this! :D Finally my ability in animating with XSI is of some use... But I think the real hard part is: how on earth would we be able to agree on a story and direction for it...? Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/12/2014 2:22 AM, Arvid B

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Thinking outloud here, I like the "after life of pi" format, very human very easy to set-up, a camera, a micro, a light. But not every one is an actor, and someone wrote somewhere that "animators make their creatures do things they can't do in real life". So an open patchwork aproach is IMHO a

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
, leaned towards lighting and shading. 23 Siew Yi Lianganimation From: olivier jeannel Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:05 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A germ of an idea. Thinking outloud here, I like the "after life of pi" format, very huma

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Toonafish
Thats a great idea! And all are walking to the beat of this tune :http://youtu.be/AWtCittJyr0 ;-) -Ronald On 3/12/2014 03:03, Bk wrote: Ok, I can't sleep and have had an idea. I think it would be good to make a visual metaphor of the situation. I've been thinking that we would need to do s

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Matt Morris
I'm in definitely. If you need stuff animated or rigged happy to help.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Thomas Volkmann
vid Bjorn cg sup and generalist, leaned towards > lighting and shading. > 23 Siew Yi Lianganimation > > > > > > From: olivier jeannel <mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:05 AM > To:

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Yes, its better to put a lits of all the CG artists and their skills as mentioned by Paul My contribution would be using Facerobot for humanoid faces using a combination of both lipsync and motion capture ( Faceware tech ) Cheers 2014-03-12 11:22 GMT+01:00 Matt Morris : > I'm in definitely. If

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
10:05 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> *Subject:* Re: A germ of an idea. Thinking outloud here, I like the "after life of pi" format, very human very easy to set-up, a camera, a micro, a light. But not every one is an actor, and someone wr

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Sandy Sutherland
nt:* Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:05 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> *Subject:* Re: A germ of an idea. Thinking outloud here, I like the "after life of pi" format, very human very easy to set-up, a camera, a micro, a light. But

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Sebastien Sterling
22 Arvid Bjorn cg sup and generalist, leaned towards > lighting and shading. > 23 Siew Yi Liang animation > > > > > > *From:* olivier jeannel > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:05 AM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Griswold
er and prop modeling, > shading, lighting, rendering, and some animation. Storyboards, matte > painting and concept design experience as well. > 21 Nicolas Esposito > 22 Arvid Bjorn cg sup and generalist, leaned towards > lighting and shading. > 23 Siew Yi Liang

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
sday, March 12, 2014 10:05 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> *Subject:* Re: A germ of an idea. Thinking outloud here, I like the "after life of pi" format, very human very easy to set-up, a camera, a micro, a

RE: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Ola Madsen
Have used XSI since version 1.5 and being a die-hard Softimage evangelist during the years I guess I can't let this slide. So count me in as well. ola Senior 3D Artist and redundant Softimage Certified Instructor

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
ivier jeannel Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:26 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A germ of an idea. What is the subject or story that the 40s'' cgi piece tells ? Le 12/03/2014 11:10, p...@bustykelp.com a écrit : I think the documentary idea should be put to a d

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:26 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> *Subject:* Re: A germ of an idea. What is the subject or story that the 40s'' cgi piece tells ? Le 12/03/2014 11:10, p...@bustykelp.com a écrit : I think the documen

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Daniel Sweeney
lease save us" or simply.. 'Save > Softimage' > > I know it sounds epic, but that's kind of the point and if we had say 40 > people doing a little bit each and maybe reused old personal assets, it > might be achievable. I could dig Greg Mutt out and probably do a Go

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Hi Paul, You might want to throw this idea at the si-community as well, unless you want it to be a "Mailing List exclusive". ;) Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue – Administrator @, NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
I think that's a good idea as long as its not going to split people up. I dont want people having to search around to see where we are up to. -Original Message- From: Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A ge

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Doeke Wartena
someone mentioned dropbox as well. It's a bit early for that but as soon content gets created bittorrent is really awsome: http://www.bittorrent.com/ Since there is no limit in size. There can be a read token and a write token. Everybody with the write token can write files. And if your online you

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
p...@bustykelp.com schreef op 12-3-2014 12:36: I think that's a good idea as long as its not going to split people up. I dont want people having to search around to see where we are up to. You can still base it on the "Mailing List" (anybody can join), but those not following the List often have

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Christian Lattuada
eused old personal assets, it > might be achievable. I could dig Greg Mutt out and probably do a Godzilla > shot in a few days. > > > > > > *From:* olivier jeannel > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 12, 2014 10:26 AM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Robert Cole
This is the most productive idea I have read on this list in a while, count me in. Rendering, Lighting, Shading. Regards, Robert

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Eugene Flormata
I agree with bittorrent sync. It's like an unlimited size Dropbox. The issue would be if we peeps were rendering a buncha gi cache files and exrs. Although there's no version control really. And worse case scenario someone deletes all the files. Paul maybe do the honours of creating a google spread

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
I would love to participate, shading and lighting if needed. A great idea and the kind of mentality that is needed right now. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Eugene Flormata wrote: > I agree with bittorrent sync. It's like an unlimited size Dropbox. The > issue would be if we peeps were rend

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread AlessioAgosti
On 12-Mar-14 1:41 PM, Ognjen Vukovic wrote: I would love to participate, shading and lighting if needed. A great idea and the kind of mentality that is needed right now. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Eugene Flormata > wrote: I agree with bittorrent sync.

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Mirko Jankovic
had recently issues with bittorent sync, it was syncing but overwrite newr files with older ones. It is tightly connected to time and date and location, having multiple users in different time zones. only 1 setup wrongly and it could create a mess with files so be careful with that one. honestly fo

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Francisco Criado
For project management , i would recomend https://www.teamwork.com/ Used it in various projects with a lot of people involved and must say is a great tool, simple, great for assigning tasks, reviewing and everybody involved can see who is participating in the project and their function and tasks. H

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Doeke Wartena
Count me in. Just for ideas! I'm having a great chat with paul now :) lots of funny ideas :) 2014-03-12 13:44 GMT+01:00 Francisco Criado : > For project management , i would recomend > https://www.teamwork.com/ > Used it in various projects with a lot of people involved and must say is > a gre

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Doeke Wartena
I never had problems with bittorent but it's good you mention it. Teamwork sounds also nice but not as storage. I don't know if someone can set up an ftp. If we get an ftp we should backup as well so if our ftp dies the project won't die. For the rest, this project is gonne be awsome :) 2014-03-

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Jason S
I think that's pretty cool ! And not necessarily all that ambitious. (1 effect / character each) and as suggested it could be the beginning and the end of the "Life after XSI doc" peice. So How about this... *For the Intro.. * (almost as proposed) Characters could all start coming out of XS

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nuno Conceicao
Great idea Paul Here is our portfolio (http://www.illusive.pt/film/work.html ) and If you like our work you can send us the animation and we can deal with lighting and compositing. (I have plenty experience on that field) We can also collaborate with animation, modeling and texturing too... Cheers

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Ed Manning
Good idea, Paul. I'm up for contributing, schedule permitting! VFX supervision, middleweight ICE FX-y stuff, and shading/lighting/rendering, especially if you'd like to see some stuff done in Redshift. http://www.linkedin.com/in/etmthree/ has a lot of links to recent (and older) work. Anyone kn

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Paulo César Duarte
Hi Paul, I would like to help, I'm a XSI generalist since Softimage XSI 4, I have a degree in Design also. My skills: - Modeling; - Shading / Lighting: - Render, Mental Ray / Arnold; - Particles / Simulations; - Comp; - Graphic Design; I think this project should focus on the best tools of Softim

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Matthew Graves
Hi I like this idea Paul. There seems to be a lot of people already in but I will throw my hat it to. I can do ICE Fx and Problem solving and other such cool stuff. (also thanks Paul for the invaluable tutorial videos) Matt On 12 March 2014 14:01, Ed Manning wrote: > Good idea, Paul. > > I'm u

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Mirko Jankovic
I do have a nice team of people here covering all sort of tasks but unfortunately too bussy for the next couple months to take on anything else on side... But if you need some rendering with Redshift i can help out, got couple licences and couple nice GPU render ready comps so can at least free you

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Francisco Criado
Found this wonderful video that could be useful for the documentary part of "life after softimage" highly recomended from minute 7:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-4JpeSF_2g 2014-03-12 11:28 GMT-03:00 Mirko Jankovic : > I do have a nice team of people here covering all sort of tasks but > un

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread paul
. From: Mirko Jankovic Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A germ of an idea. I do have a nice team of people here covering all sort of tasks but unfortunately too bussy for the next couple months to take on anything else on side... But

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Sounds like a good idea. Let's go with it!!! Too much discussion about the story at this point will only undo the whole project IMHO. Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue – Administrator @, NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Francisco Criado
onto screen > > I don't want to force anyone to do this idea, but if the general consensus > is that its a decent start then its worth building on I think. I think the > good thing about it is that its a simple premise, yet allows for great > creative freedom. > > &

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Nika Ragua
yo, raps, somehow i missed the fun ))) i would join FOR SURE, even i will sweep the floors i can do ICE, some modeling(middle level), and i think i can write a scenario - if you guys will want to do something other than potpourri or how softimage is good and AD is bad, heh 2014-03-12 19:33 GMT+04

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread olivier jeannel
at 7:40 I start to vomit... Le 12/03/2014 16:33, Francisco Criado a écrit : Found this wonderful video that could be useful for the documentary part of "life after softimage" highly recomended from minute 7:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-4JpeSF_2g 2014-03-12 11:28 GMT-03:00 Mirko Jankov

Re: A germ of an idea.

2014-03-12 Thread Christian Lattuada
building on I think. I think the > good thing about it is that its a simple premise, yet allows for great > creative freedom. > > > > > > *From:* Mirko Jankovic > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:28 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: A germ of a

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