softimage.tv - Hello World!

[Cristobal Infante]

Hi All,

Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository but hoping it will also function as a hub for the community.  

The idea sparked from Andy Moorer's Nike Evolution write up on that Nike job, I thought amazing effort but how do we showcase it a bit more? The list and si-community are great place to discuss soft, but I think a lot users are not on it, not to mention producers, agencies and decision makers.

It is still early days so this is a work in progress, we will be adjusting the layout based on the predominant content we receive. This is where eveyone can help us a bit, If you ever created a tutorial for soft, uploaded a test, done an amazing tool,  have a  showreel to show off, finished a good looking job help us by submitting it. 

You can directly submit your videos via very simple form in the website (Submit video). All you need to send is a title, vimeo/youtube url, and description. The wordpress will look after the thumbnails, then all we have to do is approve it. Ideally you will be logged in when submitting, so the system will put all videos under your profile.

The website was created by myself with the help of Cesar Saez . Would love to know what you guys think about it, and how we can move things foward.

Best,

Cris

[Mario Domingos]

Great idea! Tks!

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[Emilio Hernandez]

Cool!  Congratulations!

2013/9/4 Mario Domingos <mdoming...@gmail.com>

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[Ognjen Vukovic]

Awsome.

Thanks Cris.

[adrian wyer]

oooh look at you outdoing autodesk's 'well oiled' (hehe right) pr machine!!

 

there's been some really great, very high profile Soft work done lately, this is a great idea to keep that momentum going, and prove that Soft is up there with the 'big boys'

 

well done

 

a

 

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[Mario Domingos]

I'm in! :)

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[Vincent Fortin]

Very nice website, congrats!

[Sebastien Sterling]

Count me in, hello Mario !

[Mario Domingos]

Hey Sebastien! 

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[Miquel Campos]

Awesome!!! Very cool !!

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www.miquelTD.com

2013/9/4 Sebastien Sterling <sebastien...@gmail.com>

[royston michaels]

Congrats and Well Done for all your efforts guys.

looks awesome

[Cristobal Infante]

Hi Miquel,

Looking foward to see all TDsurvival set in there!

Thanks everyone ;)

[Miquel Campos]

Sure thing! :D  Should we register in the web to post stuff? how it works?

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www.miquelTD.com

2013/9/4 Cristobal Infante <cgc...@gmail.com>

[Cristobal Infante]

Yes, just register an account and make sure to be logged in when submitting. 

Thanks Mario for being our first submission!

[Nour Almasri]

Awsome .

[Ivan Tay]

Wow!

Thanks for sharing. I have to let the team see this :)

-Ivan
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From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Cristobal Infante [cgc...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 8:18 PM

To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: softimage.tv - Hello World!

Hi All,

Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv<http://softimage.tv> created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository but hoping it will also function as a hub for the community.

[Chris Chia]

Thanks for making the effort!
This would definitely keep every studio updated with what Softimage could do.

Chris

On 4 Sep, 2013, at 8:18 PM, "Cristobal Infante" <cgc...@gmail.com<mailto:cgc...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv<http://softimage.tv> created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository but hoping it will also function as a hub for the community.

[michael johansson]

Great initiative!!

2013/9/4 Miquel Campos <miquel...@gmail.com>

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[Matthew Graves]

Very cool :)

[Alan Fregtman]

Sweet! I've been wanting something like this to exist for some time now. :)

[Tim Bolland]

Nice looking website, really clean. Also loving the fact my student film was showcased! Was a bit of a shock to see it on there, but I'm not complaining ;p

Regards,

Tim

[patrick nethercoat]

Love it. Well done.

[Octavian Ureche]

Awesome initiative guys. Instant bookmark.

Cheers,

Octav

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[Stefan Kubicek]

Awesome, thank you so much for this Christobal!

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[Mario Domingos]

"Thanks Mario for being our first submission!"

Yey! Whats the prize?

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[Simon Reeves]

Nice work guys, I look forward to seeing how it goes!

Simon Reeves

London, UK

si...@simonreeves.com
www.simonreeves.com

[Cristobal Infante]

Thanks Simon, feel free to post all your goodies. Just make sure you are logged in when you do!

[Vladimir Jankijevic]

Nice! Thanks for the efforts. This for sure will be a place to go. 

Just a thought, how about adding a site where we could find the artists that worked on all these beautiful things? Like a Softimage Freelance Register or something, just because Work is always done by people and it would be nice to see them all in one place :). Just a thought.

Thanks

Vladimir

[Cristobal Infante]

Hi Vladimir, 

Couldn't agree with you more. This is why I think that registration in the website can be crucial. It will also allow you to change your details whenever you want.

It's the next step!

[Alok Gandhi]

Very nice!  A much needed resource.

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[Jeremie Passerin]

Really nice indeed ! Good job guys !

[David Barosin]

Well done!  Feels like new life for the community.  Thanks for putting this together. 

[Emilio Hernandez]

Hello I just submitted a video from vimeo with the following link:

https://vimeo.com/73208380

But it's not showing up.

Anything wrong or you review the videos before going on-line?

Thanks.

Emilio

2013/9/4 David Barosin <dbar...@gmail.com>

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[Cristobal Infante]

Hi Emilio,

Nice Emilio some Redshift action ;)

I just need to approve them, will be doing them on batches otherwise I will be a slave!

Cris

[Rares Halmagean]

Looks promising! Thanks for your efforts. Signed up and posted a video.

On 9/4/2013 7:18 AM, Cristobal Infante wrote:

Hi All,

Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository but hoping it will also function as a hub for the community.  

The idea sparked from Andy Moorer's Nike Evolution write up on that Nike job, I thought amazing effort but how do we showcase it a bit more? The list and si-community are great place to discuss soft, but I think a lot users are not on it, not to mention producers, agencies and decision makers.

It is still early days so this is a work in progress, we will be adjusting the layout based on the predominant content we receive. This is where eveyone can help us a bit, If you ever created a tutorial for soft, uploaded a test, done an amazing tool,  have a  showreel to show off, finished a good looking job help us by submitting it. 

You can directly submit your videos via very simple form in the website (Submit video). All you need to send is a title, vimeo/youtube url, and description. The wordpress will look after the thumbnails, then all we have to do is approve it. Ideally you will be logged in when submitting, so the system will put all videos under your profile.

The website was created by myself with the help of Cesar Saez . Would love to know what you guys think about it, and how we can move things foward.

Best,

Cris

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[Chris Covelli]

Awesome idea!  Looks great.

Chris Covelli
http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/
http://exocortex.com/products/species

TurboSquid Models

[Cristobal Infante]

Hi Chris,

Thanks, please submit all your species videos, under the ADDON category!

[Chris Covelli]

I absolutely will!  I really appreciate that you created a space for it!

Chris Covelli
http://www.polygonpusherinc.com/
http://exocortex.com/products/species

TurboSquid Models

[Emilio Hernandez]

Thanks Cris.  The site is amazing.  Let's show the world!!!

2013/9/4 Chris Covelli <ch...@polygonpusherinc.com>

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[olivier jeannel]

Super good initiative !

[Daniel Kim]

Wow! Really good idea and good website!

I hope all SI users get together on that website, and share what they do.

 

Really good job Cris!

 

Daniel

 

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Cristobal Infante
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 12:18 AM
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: softimage.tv - Hello World!

 

Hi All,

[Eric Thivierge]

Web site is down for me....

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[Cristobal Infante]

Sorry just doing a few tweaks on those permalinks before the videos are published. Check back tomorrow!

[Nick Angus]

Great idea Cris,

Stand by for content!

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Sent: 04 September 2013 22:18

To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: softimage.tv - Hello World!

[Kris Rivel]

Great idea...love it!

[Luca!!!!]

Hi! I registered yesterday, but didn't receive any mail confermation...mh mh !...

2013/9/5 Kris Rivel <kris...@gmail.com>

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[Ognjen Vukovic]

Check spam, somehow mine got lost there to.

[Alan Fregtman]

Mine too.

[Eric Thivierge]

Yeah mine was in spam as well.

On September-05-13 10:13:43 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote:
> Mine too.
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ognjen Vukovic <ogn...@gmail.com
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> Check spam, somehow mine got lost there to.
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Luca!!!! <superp...@gmail.com
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> Hi! I registered yesterday, but didn't receive any mail
> confermation...mh mh !...
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> 2013/9/5 Kris Rivel <kris...@gmail.com

> <mailto:kris...@gmail.com>>

>
> Great idea...love it!
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>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Nick Angus
> <Ni...@altvfx.com <mailto:Ni...@altvfx.com>> wrote:
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> Great idea Cris,
>
> Stand by for content!
>
> N

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> *Subject:* softimage.tv <http://softimage.tv> - Hello

> World!
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> Hi All,
>
> Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv

> <http://softimage.tv> created to showcase the best

> ...superpositiviii...qualunque cosa accada!...
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[Cristobal Infante]

About 100 user submitted videos between yesterday and today! Phew

but... is that ALL YOU GOT!!! 

On 5 September 2013 15:15, Eric Thivierge <ethiv...@hybride.com> wrote:

Yeah mine was in spam as well.

On September-05-13 10:13:43 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

Mine too.



On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ognjen Vukovic <ogn...@gmail.com

<mailto:ogn...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Check spam, somehow mine got lost there to.


    On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Luca!!!! <superp...@gmail.com

    <mailto:superpositivo@gmail.com>> wrote:

        Hi! I registered yesterday, but didn't receive any mail
        confermation...mh mh !...


        2013/9/5 Kris Rivel <kris...@gmail.com

        <mailto:kris...@gmail.com>>

            Great idea...love it!


            On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Nick Angus

            <Ni...@altvfx.com <mailto:Ni...@altvfx.com>> wrote:

                Great idea Cris,

                Stand by for content!

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[Michael Clarke]

Great job. 

That's a huge contribution to the community.

Michael Clarke Design

Blue C Studios

713-927-9835

[Adam Sale]

Very Cool Site!!

Nice Work Cristo

Adam

[Cesar Saez]

Thx guys for submiting so many videos and help us to build this new site, the community response has been amazing :)

Keep it up!
Cheers

[David Gallagher]

So happy to see this!

Great job Cris and Cesar.

Dave G

On 9/5/2013 11:10 AM, Michael Clarke wrote:

Great job. 

That's a huge contribution to the community.

On Sep 5, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Cristobal Infante <cgc...@gmail.com> wrote:

About 100 user submitted videos between yesterday and today! Phew

but... is that ALL YOU GOT!!! 

On 5 September 2013 15:15, Eric Thivierge <ethiv...@hybride.com> wrote:

Yeah mine was in spam as well.

On September-05-13 10:13:43 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

Mine too.



On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ognjen Vukovic <ogn...@gmail.com

<mailto:ogn...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Check spam, somehow mine got lost there to.


    On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Luca!!!! <superp...@gmail.com

    <mailto:superp...@gmail.com>> wrote:

        Hi! I registered yesterday, but didn't receive any mail
        confermation...mh mh !...


        2013/9/5 Kris Rivel <kris...@gmail.com

        <mailto:kris...@gmail.com>>

            Great idea...love it!


            On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Nick Angus

            <Ni...@altvfx.com <mailto:Ni...@altvfx.com>> wrote:

                Great idea Cris,

                Stand by for content!

                N

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[Pingo van der Brinkloev]

Great initiative!

Cheers

P

[Darren Macpherson]

Thanks for putting this together Cris and Cesar, loving it so far.

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On 2013/09/04 02:18 PM, Cristobal Infante wrote:

Hi All,

Would like to announce the launch of softimage.tv created to showcase the best softimage work out there. It's meant to be mainly a video depository but hoping it will also function as a hub for the community.  

[David Rivera]

WOW!! We needed this back in 2004!!! :)
Congrats!! Thanks for the URL.

David R.

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To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

[Jeremie Passerin]

Is there a way to see a list of the videos by date added ? 

Just like you have with the 5 recent post on the right, but a longer list than that. 

I would find it useful to check what has been added since my last visit.

[Cesar Saez]

Hi Jeremie,

Pressing the "Gallery" button you should be able to see a complete list (sorted by date).

We are still trying to improve the layout and tweaking the site, so suggestions are always welcome :)

Cheers!

[Jeremie Passerin]

Nice ! 

Thank you ;-)

[Cesar Saez]

Ooops, actually there's no button to see absolutelly everything at once (we'll add that asap).
For the moment, you can use a search (for ".") to do it (http://softimage.tv/?s=.)

[Mirko Jankovic]

and after all of this...

autodesk had a meeting with all the studios in london who use xsi and said they arent really going to develop it for the film/advert side of things, now all development is from a small team in asia and they will develop mainly for games

From a source... well someone here probably was on that meeting I guess... and nothing new really but...

ty AD.....

[Mario Domingos]

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[Mario Domingos]

That's a shame... 

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Cristobal Infante]

Can we please keep this thread about positive things coming out of softimage. 

If you would you like to vent your anger towards Autodesk please do it on another thread, there are plenty already out there.

[Octavian Ureche]

To be honest, i'd like to know more about what has been said at that meeting.

Maybe someone could pop another thread up.

I believe this stuff pretty much affects everyone that uses this application.

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[Martin Contel]

+1

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[Emilio Hernandez]

Well is about us then, showing those AD animals throught softimage.tv that Softimage is alive and kicking.  And that Softimage is by far better than Maya and 3DMax even that now is in Asia with whatever Devs are there.

I wonder what the studios using Softimage said about this.  I can guess that many unhappy faces showed up in that meeting if this is true, and strong and loud voices raised up against this.

In my case if they(AD)  want me to start using Maya, they will need to rip off Maya and bring Softimage into it.

So again.  I will keep contribuiting to softimage.tv  no matter what.

Cheers.

2013/9/10 Martin Contel <marti...@gmail.com>

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[Matt Lind]

Funny, we’re a games studio and have been working on a project for 8.5 years which is expected to live for another 8.5 years.  We have not seen significant work in the games features in quite a long time.  We’ve seen several revamps of existing technology such as realtime shaders, often with dire consequences, but nothing significant in many years.  We do not use ICE, nor can we outside of niche situations.

 

So, if Softimage is not to be developed for film/tv anymore, and ICE does not have a significant emphasis in games work, why is more time being spent on ICE centric features to target a games market?

 

 

Matt

 

 

 

 

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 2:44 AM
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: softimage.tv - Hello World!

 

and after all of this...

[Szabolcs Matefy]

Hehe, as a game character artist I can assure anybody that there were 0 development on games side in Softimage. OK Unfold has been worked a bit, but still feels like a badly ported Max plugin. No real use of paramteres, I still prefer UVLayout. The worst is our viewport…I think Maya has been developed a lot more on games front than Softimage. Chekcout dx11 implementation, they have proper FBX export, and so on. And they have NEX (with plenty of useful tools for modeling). OK, Softimage is still better (to me) but c’mon, I wanna see DEVELOPMENT for the f.ck sake for our subscription fee and not only bug fixes…

[Cristobal Infante]

In reply to Jeremie, hope you are well buddy!

in the near future the best way of getting the latest digest will be: rss, twitter, or Facebook

Since we have a fair amount of videos coming in I don't want to open those gates yet. By the end of the month any new post will stream post by post to all this channels.

makes sense?

[Jeremie Passerin]

alright ! 

TD Survival and Fabric Engine is already polluting my FB, I guess I can add another one ;-)

I'm good thanks for asking ! I hope you're still partying hard in sunny London, my best regards to the whole team at AKA ;-)

[Miquel Campos]

yeahhh ! and more pollution is coming soon! muahjahhahhaha xD

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www.miquelTD.com

2013/9/11 Jeremie Passerin <gere...@gmail.com>

[Ciaran Moloney]

Nothing like a good rumour from an anonymous source to get some undies in a bunch!

[Cristobal Infante]

Hi all,

First a big thanks to all of you who have posted videos on the site!

just a quick message to say I've opened the gates on twitter and facebook in case you find that more convenient to check the updates.

https://www.facebook.com/softimagetv

https://twitter.com/softimage_tv

New posts will appear in both accounts automaticaly. We will be careful to  not approve more than 2 posts at a time so we don't clutter your timelines.

By the way, please feel free to send us any softimage news!

[Emilio Hernandez]

This is exactly the kind of stuff that we need!  Keep it up!   Are you taking any kind of news related to Softimage?

Cheers!

2013/10/2 Cristobal Infante <cgc...@gmail.com>

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[Cristobal Infante]

have a look at the news already posted. I've used mostly write ups from users, so if you have something to share ;)

[Cristobal Infante]

An Interview with Eric Mootz for your morning Coffee reading:

http://softimage.tv/interview-with-eric-mootz/