Very interesting. I've definitely seen some of these ideas like sculpt over time done before with proprietary tools but nowhere as slick and effortless as it appears in the demo at least.
I could definitely see this used in a CFX/Tech Anim pipeline with some success! On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hadn't seen the pre-sale part. Well, that I too would be hugely skeptical > about. > I wouldn't trust NT with a bottle of milk, let alone hundreds of bucks of > credit on a promise. Not after core and the 180. > The software though has potential, and seems fresh enough. > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bk <p...@bustykelp.com> wrote: > >> 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…. **** >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it > and let them flee like the dogs they are! > -- Technical Director @ DreamWorks Animation
