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by ace63
11 Jun 2014, 19:37
Forum: News
Topic: Eric "MOOTZOID" Mootz is nominated for a 3D World CG Award!
Replies: 11
Views: 2501

Re: Eric "MOOTZOID" Mootz is nominated for a 3D World CG Award!

If he doesn't deserver it, who does?
Voted.
by ace63
30 May 2014, 16:59
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: dx11 viewport?!
Replies: 10
Views: 2129

Re: dx11 viewport?!

There is no such thing as far as I know.
by ace63
14 May 2014, 19:43
Forum: Announcements
Topic: A Fistful of Updates (copy/paste Mootzoid Newsletter #53)
Replies: 9
Views: 2714

Re: A Fistful of Updates (copy/paste Mootzoid Newsletter #53)

Wait - there is actually a Mootzoid Newsletter?
I never knew - just subscribed. Thanks! :D
by ace63
13 May 2014, 09:43
Forum: News
Topic: Mudbox at 10$/month
Replies: 27
Views: 4935

Re: Mudbox at 10$/month

Mudbox looks fine at first glance, but once you actually try to work with it you quickly will struggle to achieve anything at all. It lacks totally basic tools and functionality and is buggy as hell. We actually tried using it on several projects but literally everyone gave up on it.
by ace63
15 Apr 2014, 18:29
Forum: News
Topic: Softimage 2015 released
Replies: 24
Views: 8155

Re: Softimage 2015 released

[*] Learn some basic MEL scripting, Maya is heavily build on this and sooner or later you will need some little scripts to automate your workflow. Python is good as well if you already know how to program in Python. If you are going to learn scripting learn Python. Please don't waste any time with ...
by ace63
28 Mar 2014, 11:31
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Migration to maya/max = turn the other cheek
Replies: 20
Views: 5182

Re: Migration to maya/max = turn the other cheek

It's all going according to Autodesks plans - every cries out but in the end 90% of all people will still migrate to Maya. People already started to believe the bullshit "we are gonna make Maya so awesome you won't regret it" talk on the mailing list which will probably never happen. Autod...
by ace63
16 Mar 2014, 21:24
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: Anti-Autodesk Strategies
Replies: 76
Views: 10355

Re: Anti-Autodesk Strategies

now explain all the effort being put in Bifrost! Considering Autodesk's track record Bifrost might just be a plugin bolted on top of Maya/Max for a single purpose (fluids in this case probably) and the left to rot forever, just like most of Maya's features which were added ever since Autodesk owned...
by ace63
05 Mar 2014, 17:02
Forum: News
Topic: Softimage 2015 - What's new
Replies: 18
Views: 5022

Re: Softimage 2015 - What's new

Not too bad...
by ace63
13 Feb 2014, 15:04
Forum: Announcements
Topic: VrayRT for Softimage
Replies: 10
Views: 3140

Re: VrayRT for Softimage

I cannot agree about the "bad support" parts - whenever I had problems the chaos group guys have been super helpful and fast.
by ace63
20 Jan 2014, 20:38
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: updating contracts with AD
Replies: 15
Views: 2979

Re: updating contracts with AD

We stopped updating after 2012...
by ace63
17 Nov 2013, 23:27
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: 3d integration with After Effects
Replies: 14
Views: 3628

Re: 3d integration with After Effects

Seriously? No.
After Effects is awful for compositing tasks. It is sometimes needed for 2D and motion graphics stuff, but thats it.
That would be a horrible waste of time.
by ace63
31 Oct 2013, 17:22
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: What if Softimage died?
Replies: 746
Views: 102082

Re: What if Softimage died?

Have you worked with Maya before? The UI is a horrible mess when you are coming from Soft.
by ace63
26 Oct 2013, 13:06
Forum: Open Discussion
Topic: What if Softimage died?
Replies: 746
Views: 102082

Re: What if Softimage died?

Considering how 2013 was announced as an awesome release with many big features I doubt we will be seeing anything big. Release cycles are way too fast and there are probably not enough developers on the team to bring any new big features.
by ace63
22 Sep 2013, 09:44
Forum: News
Topic: The end of post production in next decade?
Replies: 10
Views: 3434

Re: The end of post production in next decade?

I think he is talking about the cult created by the old three films.
by ace63
15 Sep 2013, 22:13
Forum: ICE
Topic: I want to create this effect also on Ice
Replies: 10
Views: 1814

Re: I want to create this effect also on Ice

Why would you need ICE for that? Just put a gobo on a spotlight and rotate it.
by ace63
15 Sep 2013, 16:39
Forum: ICE
Topic: Why is generating poitns single threaded ?
Replies: 6
Views: 1280

Re: Why is generating poitns single threaded ?

Actually on big meshes volume emission is a time killer. I had to scale down a scene to 100th of the original size recently to be able to work with volume emission at all.