Well, my suggestion for the brief is that it should
1 – demonstrate powerfully that there is a lot of people around the world using
this tool and care about it enough to do this film for free
1a - Show that we are prepared to make a stand and not take this lying down
2 – Show off the wide variety of things that can be achieved with SI pretty
much out of the box and it be impressive to watch.
3- Treat Autodesk fairly.. Ie. make as many people as we can look at what kind
of company they actually are.
4 – do the above by making this entertaining and unique
5 – Be uplifting and celebrate creativity and the human spirit
This is my revised pitch from last night.. The reason I came at this idea is
that it can easily be split into chunks and the diversity of styles play to its
strength.
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 from different parts of the world and all do
different styles of work.
So my idea is. cgi on live action plates..filmed on dslr by different folk
around the globe.
It's based on the wizard of oz.
We start with one character, leaving a studio and start to walk, then we cut to
another studio with another totally different character style, walking or
moving.
This repeats. It doesn't have to be characters only, we could have a dust
cloud, or an ICE strand tangle. The more variety of cgi oddities the better. We
then cut to more of them moving through different landmarks around the globe. (
assuming between us we know someone who lives nearby enough to film them)
There could be Godzilla stomping through New York, an ice tangle going under
the Eiffel tower. they are all going somewhere. It could be as epic as we can
make it. There Could be a car chase, Whatever, as long as they are moving
somewhere with purpose. it looks like they are gathering for War.
Some characters could board a massive spaceship which takes off. Others could
get on a huge ocean liner.They are all making their way somewhere.
It culminates as a huge bizarre crowd of CGI 'things' gather at the door of a
big imposing building. A small character at the front knocks
We cut to text along the lines of "Please 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 Godzilla shot in a few
days.
From: olivier 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 different thread, as its
really worth doing, but I feel that having multiple ideas in one thread will
just serve to confuse all of them. It would be good to show both as one piece
if they both get made. The CGI piece could work as a 40 second introduction to
the other.
So far, on the CGI idea, we potentially have these artists interested
1 Paul Smith Generalist, ICE skills and character / mocap
and animation
2 Artur Wozniak 3D Generalist, non-character animation,
rendering, some nuke, VFX
3 Perry Harovas I am a generalist, but have good modeling
skills and lighting/rendering skills. I am also a Nuke user, and could help
composite.
4 Francisco Criado generalist , can also do compositing.
5 Paul Griswold
6 Eugene Flormata generalist, I'd prefer to animate something
though. I never get to do that enough at work.
7 Emilio Hernandez 3D generalist, character->modeling, rigging.
mid ICE level. Comp, editing and VFX here ready for battle.
8 Jason S Generalist/comp/matte paintings
9 Christian Lattuada
10 Rob Chapman ICE FX artist/TD, Softimage user for EIGHTEEN
YEARS
11 Sebastian Sterling Im a Modeller, prefer characters but
Multi-purpose.
12 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.
13 David Saber
14 Greg Punchatz I would be happy to edit it all together into
a cohesive piece . Put music to it etc....
15 Gustave Eggert Boehs generalist, leaning towards ice/fx stuff, can
composite in nuke
16 Rares Halmagean
17 Alok Gandhi custom tools/ plugins development required,
custom ICE nodes in C++ or any other tech stuff that needs to be developed.
18 Scott-turb- generalist
19 Jens Lindgren VFX Supervisor with broad knowledge of ICE
and compositing in Nuke
20 Richard Costin I bring character 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 animation
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 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 good way to go, at least
diversity should show richness.
A little introduction of SI history, asking Steve Blair maybe, his the memory
here, he could compile an efficient short intro.
Imho, gathering the letters from Glasswork, Seshsusht, Mills, Janimation,
etc. would make a strong backbone to the "documentary" with orbitting around
intervention from Artist such as Tim Borgmaan to show the single/personnal
level.
The movie should show IMHO, the "state" of the today industry, the
consequences/impact of AD decision at industry and personnal level.
it should show how bad was the behavior of AD since it buy Softimage, with
facts. Interviewing ex Coders should give good anecdotes
I'm all for expressing the anger of people the one that is unpolite, not
everyone can hold himself ...that's nature and that's entertaining.
There's plenty to tell with a lot of logic and a common will .
Le 12/03/2014 10:19, Nicolas Esposito a écrit :
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 food being hunted by Snake from
Metal Gear Solid 4 in its camouflage suit.
Camera change angle and up on a tree Ezio Auditore from Assassins Creed do
a leap of faith into a lake from where one of the creature from MIB emerges.
MIB guys shows up and start following the creature, then the creature is
blasted away by Dante from Devil May Cry.
Meanwhile Marv from Sin City start fighting a giant T-Rex, and Lego Batman
is helping him with his lego-gadgets.
Cut up in the sky where Final Fantasy guys are fighting monsters from Aaron
Sims weird design, panning over giant spaceships dogfighting...
Well, the list goes on and on and on :-)
2014-03-12 9:28 GMT+01:00 Jens Lindgren <jens.lindgren....@gmail.com>:
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
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