Thanks Raff. I understand about the problem with Piracy, but some of the players these guys come up with are truly terrible and make it very difficult to navigate the videos. That's my only real concern with streaming, well, that and if my internet goes out in middle of me watching the video.
I loved the visuals in Sucker Punch, but I did think the story could have been better. It is still worth watching, just for the amazing visuals. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 11:22 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: set raycast direction with a Null? You can get in touch with CGS to get confirmation, but I suspect they are streaming only. They had several workshops truly crippled by piracy, and since they moved to a new framework they actually did see a surge in sales and some workshops haven't appeared on the piratesphere at all, so I doubt they will revert that decision. I asked for mine to be downloadable actually, but as it's the same framework for everything it wasn't possible to make exception. The player is good though, it's a thin wrapper of Vimeo's, so is the hosting. Again, can't speak for them, but I'd be surprised if they were still downloadable (the originals were as I had control over the html pages wrapping them and I intentionally made the links solvable :) ). The dragon is from Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. I was character supervisor on AL's work for it. The movie was meh, but you don't get to do dragons setting crowds in armor on fire on a collapsing bridge while chasing a refitted WW2 bomber everyday, so I can't complain for having worked on it :p On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Sam <sbowl...@cox.net> wrote: Thanks for the pointers. Raff's course looks very good (what's the dragon from?). Is the CGsociety an online only course or can the videos be downloaded? CMIVFX really turned me off to online training. I find their video payer to be terrible and just can't get myself to watch the two video I bought from them (which would be handy because they are both about ICE). From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andy Moorer Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 7:30 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: set raycast direction with a Null? I guess my biggest problem is that I don't know what I need to know, which makes it hard to find answers. I search the internet when I get stuck, but there seems to be little out there when it comes to my specific problems. Anyway, that Kahn Academy is very cool. I had never heard of it before, but it looks like it will be very useful. A little trig and linear algebra will take you quite a long way. By the way, he's too polite to point it out but Raff's CGsociety online technical direction with Python training has a very nice section on math. BTW, this is the result of my ICE experiments (if anyone is interested in it). It's similar to what was done in one of the Modo 7 videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXQn9KbIBQ Sorry about the crappy quality, I have to experiment with my YouTube upload settings. Very nice! I urge you to post on Vimeo, and follow Alan's Softimage ice user's group there - it seems to have become the defacto place for Softimage folks to see and share and there is a rather impressive volume of ICE work there. -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
