I find it exciting too. This capability has been inside ILM's toolset for many years now. Good to see some of the good stuff make it's way out.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za>wrote: > If nothing else it pushes the boundaries and get other 3d apps thinking > about different ways of doing things. Personally I feel the main players > have become a little stale when it comes to major leaps forward. For the > moment the only fresh development ideas are coming from the 3rd party folks > . e.g. Creation Engine etc. > > > > From: Bk <p...@bustykelp.com> > Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" < > softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> > Date: Wednesday 24 July 2013 9:49 AM > To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> > Subject: Re: OT: ChronoSculpt > > It's interesting alright, especially for Newtek, but I have an > enormously sensitive bullshit alert when it comes to their output,having > started with lightwave in 1999 and had far too many years of utter > disappointment. > Hopefully it's doing something valuable and new. It's always good to have > something different available, but I've been cried wolf to so many times by > them I can't help but be cynical. > It's a shame they are pre-selling it without a demo to try - Core style, > and the teaser is pretty vague on what it's actually doing. > I still bet it's underneath all the fast geom handling etc it pretty much > providing a world-space shape offset. > > On 24 Jul 2013, at 04:40, Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Sure, they have to prove themselves, doesn't mean what they're showing > isn't interesting or is trivial. > > Just what's shown in the demo is something that, outside of some > propietary solutions which are unlikely to be as polished, is not available > to anyone. > Just delivering a stable version of what they show and nothing else with a > decent stability and at the right price point would be interesting enough > to at least try the demo for. > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Sam <sbowl...@cox.net> wrote: > >> From my experiences Newtek products never live up to the hype and >> sometimes never materialize even after selling licenses to customers. I >> gave up on anything Newtek has to offer long ago. From anyone else might >> get excited about something like this, but Newtek has failed to deliver on >> so many times I would be a fool to get sucked into their hype machine >> again. Did they ever add an undo to their Dope sheet editor? I fondly >> remember having to reload my last save whenever I would accidentally change >> or delete the wrong thing in the editor…. **** >> >> >> > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is > confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or > disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only > authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of > the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this > message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the > personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the > views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All > agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African > Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. > > -- *Greg Maguire* | Inlifesize Mobile: +44 7512 361462 | Phone: +44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com | www.inlifesize.com
