Lousy Siggraph????

[bicc39]

Ok the eeconomy is in the tank, high unemployment and there is
a chance that Brooklyn is building a nuclear reactor.
But.
Normally during Siggraph week, you are overwhelmed with
information.
As mentioned in previous thread did not go because of August heat,
flies, mold.
Did everyone else stay home?????
At least Zbrush could have sent Aurick to demonstrate Paintshop, sorry
autosketch, sorry Painter, sorry that thing that paints stuff.
Somebody post something, give me hope....
Obviously Autodesk went, they thrive on flies.

[womball]

I think its great and I'm here. Most people aren't posting because after the convention finishes each night, we end up on Bourbon St. I don't remember much of what happens there.

[bicc39]

I don't remember much of what happens there.

I have the same problem here without the plane ticket.

Look forward to review....enjoy.

[hobo]

please, if you want to rant about "politics" do it someplace else ...

[slocik]

gladly this mess got moderetaed ;f Anyway i expected to see all zbrush 4 features at Siggraph ;/

[bicc39]

Well.....anybody...somebody.
Did Siggraph at least have rides, throw balls at dolls, darts,
throw a Ping pong ball in a gold fish bowl.

Anybody mugged?
Wild parties?
Bribes from software companies?
Fooling around between Mudbox and Maya people?

Something.

Edit: was kindof hoping somebody would make me feel badly
about not going.
At this moment looks like I saved bucks.

[womball]

Nvidia had a wild party, at this bar which had a 3 for 1 beer deal. A solid state hard drive had 1250 different DVD quality video streams running from it. You wolud sort of use it like a temporary hard drive while working, and would get huge increases 10x to 20x in render speed.

There was a mocap system that didn't rely on digital cameras. And there were was the golden woman with blue hair. I have a picture of her with me. I haven't had a chance to see the techincal papers yet. I hope to get dvd from someone about that.

The convention center is epic at least 1.3 miles probably more.

I got the pixar walking teapot. Most of the bookstores and schools have very attractive women as salewoman.

Got the new freedomof teach/anatomytools woman echorce.

there was a monitor that was 3d but didn't require classes. Could use some work, but it was really cool. And a lot more to come...

[bicc39]

Thank you Womball.:tu: :tu: :tu:

Women with weird hair color and cheap beer have
always been a standard......

One small question, since we are kinda guests here, anything
about Zbrush?

When you mentioned cheap beer, immediately thought Pixologic staff.

[womball]

Me with the golden woman. It looks like I'm about to flip her on my back and carry her back to my cave.

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I will upload some more pictures later. No pixologic unfortunately. There was zbrush on wacom cintiqs. And the head scanning software reminded me of a zbrush post where they were scanning things and retopologizing them in zbrush. I think they missed out here. There software was also used in a lot of animation at the festivals. Usually in an experimental fashion.

Today is partial screening of cloudy with a chance of meatballs, a pixar short with Mator, and hopefully I can get some of the first 2 hours of animations I missed at 1-3.

Cloudy with a Chance of meatballs looks incredible. Its like a combination of the high SSS of Pixar's Up (they didn't mentiont that) with 1950's UVA style. The designers also mentioned a muppet influence, but I didn't see it yet. Only a handful of clips were shown so far, and they did breakdowns of the shots too. Excellent VFX work too.

[bicc39]

MANY THANKS FOR THE INFO!!!

Two questions for later when you get home.
1. Were you glad you went?
2. Was the choice of New Orleans a good one?

edit: be careful

[lemonnado]

The question remains why that guy behind you is shielding his face... :D

[bicc39]

Looks like he is crying..

[womball]

I think he was trying to hide. You see when he covers his face, he's invisible.

[lemonnado]

No way.... she told me you split your trousers! :lol:

[Pride]

Her thumb is pressing the security call button.

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[chris-carter]

Got the new freedomof teach/anatomytools woman echorce.

The new medical reference quality one? thought that wasn't out yet. Or is it one of the two artist reference grey ones?

[womball]

Its yellowish. And its out, but out of stock, online. They only had a few at the show.