Maya main animation pipline in ILM ? for 3d characters ? hmm 2005-05-30 - By Morten Bartholdy
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Ouch!!!
Sort of makes ones wishes for various improvements in XSI very benign...
Morten Bartholdy
3D & VFX Artist
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Guy Rabiller" <guy@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Maya main animation pipline in ILM ? for 3d characters ? hmm
>
> [Matt]
> > ../.. If you read between the lines, it implies Softimage
> > is not up to the task of producing production ready
> > software and/or supporting it at an adequate level ../..
>
> .. certainly one of the major issues is more the lack of openess of the
> software ( not the architecture ), than the support.
>
> While a lot of efforts have been done recently - especialy at the SDK
> and the UI level - imho wrong choices have been made regarding
> priorities, wich is sad, because there are great teams of brillants
> developers at Softimage.
>
> We still dont have access to many core features, we can't add custom
> 'Objects' to the scene graph, we dont even have access to the SceneGraph
> itself yet, despite years of requests, and there are a lot of other
> customization issues.
>
> This might seem insignificants to regular users/arstists, but in such
> big and technicaly advanced companies, customization is the key, and
> devs/tds are in the front line every days. When you hit walls again and
> again, it's time to reconsidere your choices.
>
> There is the CDH. You can do nearly everything with it. For sure. But
> what about integration ? Yet you have to redo a good part of the
> software everytime. This has clearly been designed with the game market
> in mind. It's really great for this. But not for 'integrating' features.
> Look at the Syflex 'integration'. Unable to communicate with the native
> simulation environment(s). Some aborted attempts have been made by third
> parties to port their plugin to XSI.
>
> Is it not the time to put an hold on fancy features, and seriously work
> on what is really needed ?
>
>
> Softimage|XSI is a wonderfull Masterpiece of Software Engineering, loved
> by everyone, but jealously kept closed by its Creators, and soon proudly
> exposed in the Museum of Computer Graphics Archeology, if nothing is done.
>
>
> Please make me wong.
> --
> guy rabiller | 3d technical director @ LaMaison
>
>
> Matt Lind wrote:
>
> > I don't think ILM is the center of the world either, but if the report
> > is true it makes a pretty big statement when such a big studio
> > installs XSI as the main commercial software of chioice for animation,
> > then later tosses it out like an unfinished happy meal. If you read
> > between the lines, it implies Softimage is not up to the task of
> > producing production ready software and/or supporting it at an
> > adequate level. The original poster doesn't have to supply an opinion
> > to get the point of the story across.
> >
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---
> > Matt Lind
> > Animator / Technical Director
> > Softimage certified instructor:
> > Softimage|3D
> > Softimage|XSI
> > Mantom, Chicago
> > Matt@(protected)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Re: Maya main animation pipline in ILM ? for 3d characters ? hmm
> > Date : Sun, 29 May 2005 20:23:06 -0400
> > To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >
> >> From : Bernard Lebel <3dbernard(at)gmail.com>
> >
> > Subject : Re: Maya main animation pipline in ILM ? for 3d characters ?
> > hmm
> >
> > Never intended to flame anyone.
> > But the starter of this thread never voiced an opinion, only "mmm"s.
> > Unless a top guy from ILM cares to answer our question, pretty
> > anything that will be said in this thread is pure speculation and
> > personal opinion based on "I know a guy who works there..."-type of
> > comments. In short, I guess we'll see once again that discussion
> > regarding XSI vs Maya vs ILM vs big studios vs small studios vs
> > proprietary software vs wishlist and so on and so on.
> >
> > As far as I'm concerned I feel that ILM is not the center of the
> > world, so if they drop all but Maya it won't make a change in what I
> > think about the softwares. In fact, I don't care, and I don't
> > understand why it seems to be such a sensitive subject.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
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