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#3D Artists & Animators 2
Message #167508
Hi Lee, I am really behind on reading my ASOFT messages and ran across yours. I started a new thread because I imagined the old thread had scrolled. I noticed that Louisiana was on your list asking individuals to contact you about setting up 3DA&A and NAUUG chapters. I'm your…
Hi Jonas, Maybe you could drop an explanation in my e-mail too. When I saw R4 at SIGGRAPH in Orlando, the spline modeling interface was working just fine. It was extremely powerful and as good as any spline modeler that I have used from 3D Studio's competitors. I use to…
Hi John, I enjoyed meeting you at SIGGRAPH. Well I guess four decimal places is a bit extreme, but when I want to render to a Truevision ATVista with some 3D software, that will go nameless here, and I want to use it for video and print, the pixel aspect…
Thanks Alan, I am now three for three with "Go with what you know!" I guess some of us don't like to work in a vacuum. Thanks for confirming my suspicion. Enjoy your weekend! Bryce W. CF/X Image, Inc.
Thanks Don, I was just wondering what the collective conscious thought about this anomaly. I like your numbers and will use them, with your permission of course . Now I can sleep peacefully when I have time, with the knowledge I am "one",… no "one-point-three-whatever-whatever-whatever" with the universe. Bryce W.…
Thanks for replying Bill, I have always been curious about the defaults in the 3DS.SET file because they always seemed to be slightly off from conventional wisdom. I got another reply from Don Landis and if I am reading this right, "Go with what you know!"
#Pixel aspect discrepancy
Message #138001
I was setting up my favorite resolutions in the 3DS.SET file and I finally decided to ask about something that has really bugged me for some time, but I just lived with it. Why is there a discrepancy between the "RESolution" aspect ratios and the standard formula for determining pixel…
Bruce, Well spoken and leave it to a broadcast engineer to make the distinction. I know you are trying to keep everything absolutely accurate here on ASOFT. Like you said, modern Frame Sync's incorporate TBC's and Proc Amps. We often call the same unit a Frame Sync or a TBC…
Hi Maura, Gee, who are those TV people. Yes, they will look down their noses at VHS, but we do this all the time. They need to put the VHS machine through a "frame-shaker", a TBC, or in layman's terms, a Time Base Corrector. Then they need to put the…
Well, well, well, Not THE Kevin Gibson of the Southern Animation Society. I saw your listing in Bill Allen's issue #16 of 3D Artist Magazine that I picked up at SIGGRAPH in Orlando. There wasn't any phone number or I would have probably given you a howdy. Well let me…
Thanks for responding. Do ya'll use 3D Studio? Do any of you have a mechanical engineering background? Not that important, but helpful. I will try and call you tomorrow. No decisions have been made yet. For any other correspondence, please response via private E-mail.
#Shaken not stirred legal
Message #131508
Here is the scoop! There is a case that may require courtroom animation, but the rub is that the principal attorney wants someone that is blooded. That's right, the attorney wants someone who has been offered, tendered and qualified as an expert witness in courtroom animation. This is not a…
Hi Tim, It should be in the Broadcast Professional Forum. Well, at least that is where I found the one I use. Don't ask me the exact file name since it has been a while. Search WTCC, TC, SMPTE, LTC, VITC or TimeCode. Once extracted it runs under Windows and…
#Glad to see you on CI$
Message #136
Hi Steve, Glad to see you guys now on CompuServe. Hopefully this will solve some problems with the BBS since you are on AOL and CI$ now. Thanks for the 2.07 A:M update disks. They arrived, no problem. I mentioned to Kevin Sanerson that I saw the Hash crew with…
Hi Dan, The best bang for the buck right now are the Micron P-90's (on which I saw 3D Studio R4 being demostrated at SIGGRAPH by Autodesk and the Yost boys) and Zeos 90Mhz Pentiums. And remember, the more RAM you can afford, the merrier! Enough said, enough said. Bryce…
Hope to see you at Siggraph. I'll be there the 26th, 27th and 28th. How do you guys locate each other at Siggraph? Do you just hang around the Autodesk booth? Take care Bryce W. CF/X Image, Inc.
Hi John, A:M is doing just fine, but unfortunately I don't have a big character animation project, so I have been concentrating on 3DS. Another big problem I had was my primary disk drive was slowly failing and my data was becoming corrupted. Fortunately I got my hard drive changed…
Thanks Alan, I think I have single framed myself to death!!! This thread caused me to reread your article in Bill Allen's 3D Artist Magazine more intensely. Your article was well written and very informative. To bad more of the trades didn't commission end users instead of general reviewers to…
PMJI John, There were only two articles and the first one for me contained more information than the second, if I remember correctly. Bryce W. CF/X Image, Inc.
Hi Alan, I am assuming with the PAR drivers, that even though the files are in the native PAR format, one can backup files to tape drives like a Colorado Jumbo 250. Will backup software like Colorado's and Central Point PC Tools just see the PAR as another DOS drive.…
Hi Steven, Two sources I use are Animation from Script to Screen by Shamus Culhane and Media Law for Producers by Philip Miller. Shamus Culhane's book targets traditional cel animation. It does, however, have a sample contract on page 308 and you can modify it to fit computer animation because…
Hi J.G., Interesting concept "NY metro opportunity only"….., but wait, what was that sound? A country boy whispers, "The gun goes off, the foot is severely wounded!" Question #1: Why didn't you put an add in a "NY metro" paper, i.e. computer animators wanted? OR Question #2: Give me a…
Well JNJ, If don't miss the humidity, then you must have really moved away. DeRidder, huh? Back in the dark ages, I used to work for KALB-TV5 after I graduated from high school, in that great metropolis of Alexandria, LA. One thing about Baton Rouge, is they can give good…
Thanks for the reply Sam, It is my personal feeling that if you are trying to market you wares in the installed base of 3DS users a price of $350 to $500 would be about right price threshold. It seems that almost all of the plugin stuff for 3DS is…
Hi Sam, Do you have any good skulls. A person approached me concerning a project on nose jobs (rinoplasy ?SP). Nothing definite, but I am looking for good resources for meshes. I am assuming you are the one that uploaded the vertebae. I haven't downloaded it, so should I. Bryce,…
Hi Bill, I am way down south in Baton Rouge, LA. How's the work in Atlanta? Except for New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Louisiana are always 2 to 5 years behind the times. Right now their idea of economic stimulation is opening a bunch of casinos. Please give me a…
Yes Bill its true. I have become a closet 3DS user because I just want to feel loved. "Is that sooo wronngggg?" To the task at hand. Not much response, but it looks like Yost's Disk #6 so far. Thanks, Bryce at the big red stick animation outpost down south
#IPAS smokers
Message #107752
Hi experienced IPAS smokers, Yea, I know it is not politically correct, but at 4 AM in the morning while working on an animation, a stale cup of coffee and a fresh cigarette can keep you going while the politically correct social engineer weenies are fast asleep. Too bad I…
Hi Ian, This is the second time that I have come across this offer of TOPAS PRO for $750. The two caveats that I know of are that 3DS had to be purchased on or before Oct '93 and that Soft VTR wasn't part of that offer. If things have…
PMJI Hi Tim, I would be interested in your WinBatch utility for Gallery effects. Where do you think you will be uploading it. Thanks, Bryce Whiteside CF\X Image, Inc.
Hi Chuck, The 16th bit on an ATVista is for alpha in 16bit mode. My experience with using an ATVista under Windows is essentially worthless. There is a company that had a Windoze utility for passing images from Windoze paint programs to ATVista's through the clipboard. North Coast Software comes…
Put your number in my address book. Bryce
Seems to be a tight family around here. I got several answers already. I am mapping a flame FLC to an object that will flame up a little when a branding iron burns onto live action video. It will be post composited in a video post production facility. The only…
Some say potato and some say potautoe. Some say tomato and some tomautoe. And yes, there it was, big as life, in the index "Animating Bitmaps…….3-45". Guess I should have read the reference manual cover to cover Friday night . Thanks again
Got it; will get it. Thanks Jonas Bryce Whitesdie CF\X Image, Inc.
#3DS Rotoscope from Disk?
Message #87146
I just picked up 3DSr3. I have been doing Broadcast animation for six years using PC's, Truevision products and, yes, competitors to 3DS. Needless to say, I am not use to asking dumb questions about computer animation, but 3DSr3 got me this time. I thought rotoscoping was a built in…
I wonder if I could get Ken Burns to produce it will a lot of old famous actors to do the voice overs. HHHUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMM…….???
Hi Richard, Other than getting Autodesk's registered owner mailing list (not likely), the only thing that I can think of is Bill Allen's 3D Artist magazine. He has compiled a very informal poll or survey, if you like, (very unscientific; based on readership). Not only will you get a view…
Hi Jonas, PMJI Maybe it would foster a new type of training video tutorial. It could be something like a mini-series period piece, complete with intrigue and unsubstantiated historical (or contemporary) rumor. Then, when the networks don't know what to do with it, PBS could pick it up. "Shogun 3D",…
Well Paul, In all fairness, and even though I would consider 3DSr3 the quintessential first animation package if one can only afford one, 3DSr1 had many of those $2995 Swiss Army Knife knock off attributes that you relegate to A:M. I might also add, that if I didn't know so…
Oh No Mike, Here we go again. Lock and load. The sounds of sabers rattling. You will soon have the feeling that you woke up in Bosnia as a UN peace keeper. Was that the sound of a AK-47 off in the distance? In all fairness, you also need to…
Hi John, Recieved Animation:Master yesterday, but have been busy and haven't installed it yet. Greg, if you are listening, I haven't forgotten you and I got your message. How about some first impressions since this is a upgrade? Beware the Hash HASP. Yes, now even A:M has the dreaded dongle.…
Hi Steve, Let me think about this. Los Angeles, Al Gore, information super highway, telephone lines, modems, Federal Express, UPS Red, semi-conductors, hmmmmmmm? Just thought you might need talent instead of local avialability. I assume that you are looking for someone expert in 3DSr3 . Why limit yourself to one…
You got it right Chuck, Once!!! Bryce Whiteside CF/X Image, Inc. PS Let them such air!!!
Hi Greg, You are such an optimist. I did contract work for a state PBS network and the hundreds of models I created for them were theirs via contract even though they were found in violation of IRS rules concerning contract workers. Media litigation and copyright, what a growth industry.…
As you can see I am not part of the 3DSr3 brethren yet, but am saving my pennies. I was able to acquire Animator Pro 1.3 in a competitive upgrade. I have quite a few animation products and accessories. I hope to acquire 3DSr3 soon because it has seemed to…
Hello Cyber men, It is my understanding that everything that lives in DOS runs a little slower than normal under NT and OS2. Just a thought.
Now we know Liquid Speed is from Vibrant Graphics. One more peice to the puzzle. So few to go . Vibrant Graphics ________________
3DS vs. Topas
Message #63996
Got your message and added you to my address book. I would go into more detail as to setting up TOPAS, but being a purist I find it inappropriate on the ASOFT forum. What type of mass "mailable" storage devices do you have? Are you interested in the new "virtual…
#Exabyte Driver – WOW!!!!
Message #63086
Hi Suresh, I noticed in your excitement that something was missing . Product Name Company Address City, State Zip Phone Number (Voice) Phone Number (FAX) I must say that this is a nifty trick geared toward sequencial files names, written sequencial to disk or the access time would be horrendous.…
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