Brad Hiebert demos Softimage for Bill Gates, back in 1995
Friday Flashback #165
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Friday Flashback #164
Demo reel and testimonials for XSI 1.5
https://vimeo.com/89714113
Testimonials from Janimation, Giant Studios, Pixel Liberation Front, Aldis Animation, and Giant Killer Robots.
Wednesday word cloud: Softimage Top 5
Word cloud for the “Your TOP 5” thread on the Softimage mailing list
Loading PLY files into Softimage
As Arnold standins…
The Arnold procedural node can load Arnold Scene Source (ASS), Wavefront Obj (OBJ, OBJ.GZ), and Stanford Geometry (PLY), as well as DLLs/SOs.
The swirl is a PLY file I downloaded from http://www.3dvia.com/
Screenshots of the week
Get Closest Location on self, in a cluster
by Vladimir
Softimage Tip: Selecting Components by Projection Selection
by Studio Gohde
emTools 1.93 – New Stuff and Liquid Particle Shaper
Teahouse
by milanvasek
And here’s a few unposted ones from the previous weeks:
Volume of a grid
by gustavoeb
Rendering Golaem crowds with Arnold and Softimage
Forester Walkthrough
https://vimeo.com/88423962
Friday Flashback #163
Up until late 2008, Softimage wasn’t the name of a software product. It was a company with its own unique history, culture, and mythology. For many of us who worked there, it was a special time and place, and a lot of it happened in this building in Montreal.
https://flic.kr/p/5HnK3k
How many Softimage licenses do you need for an Arnold render farm?
None, not for the render farm itself. You just need Arnold licenses for the render nodes. You need Softimage licenses for artist workstations; on the render nodes, you’ll be using xsibatch -processing -render to render (and -processing doesn’t take a Batch license for third-party renderers).
You wouldn’t need Maya Batch licenses for Arnold render nodes either. The Maya render/mayabatch command line tools won’t take a Batch license for third-party renderers either.
ICE: Volume of a grid
Take a default 8×8 grid. Extrude one polygon four units. Extrude four adjacent polys two units. Add an Attribute display property for the Volume.
Friday Flashback #162
A short clip from a Sumatra (codename) product demo at SIGGRAPH 2000
https://vimeo.com/88434956
Looks like MarkS to me
la fin d’une époque
Softimage est entré dans l’imaginaire collectif québécois en 1994 quand le fondateur Daniel Langlois a vendu son entreprise à Microsoft pour environ 130 millions US.
PHOTO ROBERT MAILLOUX, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE
Dernière version de Softimage: «la fin d’une époque» — La Presse
L’un des plus forts symboles de succès de l’industrie québécoise des technologies, Softimage, n’existera plus. L’entreprise américaine Autodesk, qui en est maintenant propriétaire, a annoncé que la prochaine version du logiciel Softimage, qui doit paraître le 14 avril, sera la dernière.
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