SPOILER ALERT - general Softimage 2013 description

[azurecgi]

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/eddie/au ... s_march_27

edit by gustavoeb: URL tag

[gustavoeb]

azurecgi: damn you beat me to it
but dont forget url tags ;)

by the way, here is the link for the actual lunch event:
http://www.facebook.com/autodesk/app_142371818162

[Memag]

Sounds fantastic.

[Memag]

Stream will start in 4 minutes.

http://www.livestream.com/autodesk

[bottleofram]

Am i late to the party? Or you guys just worming up?

Autodesk® Softimage® 2013 animation software delivers powerful new creative toolsets, a new high-fidelity interactive environment, and extended customizability, helping artists and Technical Directors get more from the product. Artists will enjoy greater creative freedom across the board: from the completely new CrowdFX simmulation feature set; to a new High-Quality viewport; to enhanced modeling, 3D animation, physics, and selection tools, Softimage 2013 helps artists create compelling content in less time. In addition, better interoperability with Autodesk® Maya® 2013 software and Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2013 software; and extensions to the SDK (software development kit) help facilitate integration into existing pipelines.

Damn, that sounds nice! Got my attention, certainly.

Will hold back on softimage, but as far as max goes...

especially this: "...offers a new render pass system with integrated node-based composting..." doesnt seem to be Composite, maybe something new. Motion graphics tools too?

...careful with interpreting this marketing massages. Might be a full blown internal compositor, but more likely, its like maya's pass composting feature.

Also interesting, and only because we love to make up theories :

"From the SI quote"
In addition, better interoperability with Autodesk® Maya® 2013 software and Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2013 software

"From 3dmax"
Finally, enhanced interoperability with Autodesk® Maya® 2013 and Autodeskk® MotionBuilder® 2013 animation software helps facilitate pipeline integration

Scared that the max users will switch If they spend to much time in SI ? (just kidding)

I'll bite. If overall improvements are satisfyingly good, i wont be too sad about SI giving a priority to max/maya interop (thats to be expected, after all), but mudbox/motionbuilder would be more useful to those of us hopping to stay away from maya/max pipelines. Oh well... mumble, grumble, mumble, grumble ;)

[gustavoeb]

bad thing about LiveCasts is that there is no forward button to skip the instituional bs
oh well, we are always complaining

[azurecgi]

At least the guy doesn't have a boring voice! mmmkay! ;)

[TwinSnakes007]

They just showed Maya on iPad. I think they are bringing mobile options to the flagship DCC apps.

[Chris_TC]

How long will this Live Stream last? Watching now, but am only interested in Softimage

[TwinSnakes007]

How long will this Live Stream last? Watching now, but am only interested in Softimage

Chris, they have a lunch break in the agenda...so I think it's like 4-5 hours

[origin]

ehh its webcast for shareholders or what

[Chris_TC]

How long will this Live Stream last? Watching now, but am only interested in Softimage

Chris, they have a lunch break in the agenda...so I think it's like 4-5 hours

Oh my, that's terrible. Softimage, if they show it at all, will be 5 minutes somewhere in the last quarter.

[SonarPhoton]

http://area.autodesk.com/softimage2013

[SonarPhoton]

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/marks/softimage_2013

[Chris_TC]

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/marks/softimage_2013

Holy crap. They put tons and tons of resources into some Crowd FX thing.
Not only was I expecting many additional ICE nodes (bevel, boolean, filter points etc. etc. etc.), I seriously believed we'd get ICE Topo for curves and surfaces as that seemed like the logical followup to last year's release. Very disappointing, hopefully I'm not seeing the big picture.

[Nizar]

ouch! arrived only now. I hear many discussion about cloud