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 finger, bragged about his 6-digit-sale, slapped some people verbally in the face as a good bye and was never seen again... Since then I keep hearing weird stories about his patent and how he deals with it.
Tragic in a way if you are pinned down by a patent like that instead of being able to go on with your life and come up with new cool ideas... Cheers, Tom On 28 April 2012 19:15, Eric Turman <i.anima...@gmail.com> wrote: > One could only hope that it will steer potential yeti customers to ICE > hair solutions ;) > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Todd Akita <tak...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Wow I'm sure that's gonna steer all those potential Yeti customers right >> to Joe Alter. >> >> -T >> >> On Apr 28, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Industry gossip: Joe Alter has been on a patent warpath lately, and >> > Yeti announced they can't be sold in the US >> > http://peregrinelabs.com/2012/04/to-our-us-customers/ >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Raffaele Fragapane >> > <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> It's not really, but it isn't a standard grooming toolset either. It's >> a >> >> hybrid approach of scope targeted graph managers that many companies >> in the >> >> high end of the business have had excellent luck with, and it does >> hair and >> >> grooming specific things (shaders, rendering partitioning and >> injection etc) >> >> that something as general purposed as ice can't do. >> >> >> >> Again, it doesn't go against ICE nor shave. >> >> It's a promising product to keep an eye on for the mid and small sized >> >> studios >> >> >> >> On Apr 12, 2012 6:50 PM, "Andi Farhall" < >> andi.farh...@primefocusworld.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> looks clunky to me, but then everything looks clunky compared to soft >> >>> imho. >> >>> >> >>> Andi >> >>> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >> >>> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >> >>> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stefan >> >>> Kubicek >> >>> Sent: 11 April 2012 22:29 >> >>> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> >>> Subject: Nodes galore II (not ICE) >> >>> >> >>> Just stumbled over this one, it looks like mbFeathers and Kristinka >> >>> combined: http://peregrinelabs.com/yeti/ >> >>> >> >>> Not much to see in terms of videos or screenshots, but the price hints >> >>> at quite a bit of self confidence there. >> >>> >> >>> Stefan >> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > > > > -=T=- >
