Hi all, I would like to offer my services on the project.
I am a generalist with my prefers skills leaning towards the character animation and rigging side. I'm not sure how or where I can help but I am willing to donate some time where possible . Sent from HTC one Darren Cullis Character Animator / 3d Artist w: www.dc3d.co.uk e: 3d.dar...@gmail.co.uk m: 07595584800 On 12 Mar 2014 15:39, <p...@bustykelp.com> wrote: > Wow so that’s 41 people so far!! I never imagined this would happen. > > Its also rather intimidating. I certainly can’t lead this on my own, so > who would like to help coordinate it? > I’d also like to nail the basis for the idea down soon or we’ll be all > over the place. > > This is my idea, cleaned up a bit, with suggestions from Doeke Wartena who > aptly likened it to Forest Gump’s running sequence. > > I thought Greg would be a good start, as he still has a lot of followers > on you-tube and is kind of known. I had a big response from the VFX > industry when I made it. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9Fod9KigU > > We start with Greg Mutt (see above) doing a video blog about Soft being > killed.. He suddenly jumps up and says You know what? Screw this!! and > stomps off screen. > We cut to him walking down a street with purpose. > Then we cut to various other CGI characters or entities, leaving > buildings, walking, running. making their way somewhere. > The shots get bigger as more and more CGI things join the walking groups. > Its starts getting Epic. Godzilla Stomps through times Square as a bunch > of Lego-like characters run beneath him etc > We see Greg again, riding on a Trex, past Mount Rushmore, as helicopters > fly past . George Washington’s stone face says ‘Go for it Greg!’ > Tokyo and a bunch of Manga characters strut down the neon streets looking > mean and others looking Cute join them. > Paris and a bunch of Monsters stick out their thumbs to hitch a ride. a > massive spaceship descends. > etc ( increasingly epic ideas along these lines are up for grabs.) > Eventually an awesome throng of CGI characters, and entities gather at the > HQ of Autodesk.. (this could be CGI and Stylised. Black and Imposing) > They are carrying banners, such as ‘make Softimage not war’. They stop.. > Greg hesitates, from behind him, a character walks to the door. > It is a little cute Manga girl . she presses the buzzer a reply comes. > ‘Hello, this is Autodesk. Press 1 if you want information on Maya. Press 2 > if you want information on Max, press...’ (this bit needs more thought) > She leans in and whispers ‘Please don’t kill us’ > SAVE SOFTIMAGE slams onto screen > > I don’t want to force anyone to do this idea, but if the general consensus > is that its a decent start then its worth building on I think. I think the > good thing about it is that its a simple premise, yet allows for great > creative freedom. > > > > > > *From:* Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:28 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: A germ of an idea. > > I do have a nice team of people here covering all sort of tasks but > unfortunately too bussy for the next couple months to take on anything else > on side... > But if you need some rendering with Redshift i can help out, got couple > licences and couple nice GPU render ready comps so can at least free your > comps to keep making something great :) > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Graves <mattg1...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi I like this idea Paul. >> There seems to be a lot of people already in but I will throw my hat it >> to. I can do ICE Fx and Problem solving and other such cool stuff. >> (also thanks Paul for the invaluable tutorial videos) >> >> Matt >> >> >> On 12 March 2014 14:01, Ed Manning <etmth...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Good idea, Paul. >>> >>> I'm up for contributing, schedule permitting! >>> >>> VFX supervision, middleweight ICE FX-y stuff, and >>> shading/lighting/rendering, especially if you'd like to see some stuff done >>> in Redshift. >>> >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/etmthree/ has a lot of links to recent (and >>> older) work. >>> >>> Anyone know a producer who'd like to herd this bunch of cats? >>> >> >> > >
