Hi guys, This is maybe not the best time to write about this, but maybe something good could be done about this idea.
Looking around si-community and here as well I saw a lot of topics regarding "How to" and "Help me with" in order to achieve a goal. This is perfectly fine and on both communities there are lots of talented people willing to give advices, share compounds and make tutorials about it. There are some specific things which are not so simple to develop, and most of the time you can't get the thing you're doing to work, so you end up going nowhere, or switch to another software you know already do what you're looking for ( if there is one ). So, with this in mind my proposal is quite "simple": Setup small found raise groups, using kickstarter, in order to finance a TD or a talented artist to develop a custom tool which allows you to reach your ( ours ) goal. The TD look at the request, setup the minimum amount on money needed to develop that tool, then the fund raise campaign begin. Lets start with an example - A muscle system within Softimage: Most of you saw the Peta commercial and the behind the scene and saw the amazing thing The Mill did using Softimage; also recently Paul Smith did a demo of his muscle system which looks pretty damn cool; Vorlex developed his plugin using ICE, and those are just few examples. - VFX done with ICE: Exocortex already sells amazing plugins, but lets say I need specific VFX in my shot and I need someone who's capable to create what I need. To put it simple would be the answer to "I don't know how to do this, can someone do this for me if I pay?" The found raising could be applied not only to Softimage ( even because I'm not sure how many TDs want to create tools for a Software which is going to be left out in a couple of years ), but extend this idea to other software, for example Fabric Engine, which has huge potentials and lots of people right now are really interested into this framework. So, what are your thoughts about it? Cheers Nicolas
