Lucas, my friend,
It is a big loss for the DS community if we loose you.
As it is if we loose Sylvain, and others, as it seems
we may, especially those from support.
I remember you from way back for your huge and
considerate help, to us all, for pointing me to
imdb.com, as well as some other atrocious websites, (-
er, weren't you responsible for the first Hasslehoff
link ;-0) and also you share your birthday with my
son, only 18mths now, seems like yesterday.
We are entering what is probably the most uncertain
time of DS's future since I've been here, since v2,
but I hope, and ultimately expect, that we will be
seeing something great from DS in the future, far
above the Symp/DS dual Bios.
Anyhow, it has been really great travelling this long
road with all of you on this list. There are too many
greats to mention.
The list will contunue on google thanks to Gus, Knut
and Chris, so I really hope that you and Sylvain, and
Tone, Howard, Rick, Igor, Schy.... everyone, stays
with it. Because it is all of us that make it what it
is.
Cheers and slainte,
Dec
--- Lucas Wilson <lucas.wilson(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> From my personal e-mail address...
> I was fortunate. After a weird, substance-laden
> period in my life as a Front
> of House Engineer for several rock and punk acts in
> the mid-90s, I realized
> I needed a change. You think ad execs are crazy and
> unpredictable? Try the
> average guitar tech for a punk band. Takes
> unpredictable to an entirely new
> level. So my change led me back to my hometown --
> Huntsville, Alabama -- and
> working for Intergraph Corporation in their
> beautiful in-house corporate
> media facility. Intergraph made serious serious
> bucks in the 80s and spent
> several million of it on a state-of-the-art in-house
> studio. At one time, we
> had the largest bluescreen and floating stage in the
> southeast. When it was
> first built, it was the kind of place that popped
> eyes. Especially in
> Huntsville, Alabama. :)
>
> Sometime after a few years there, Intergraph's
> hardware group got involved
> in video I/O and launched the first WinNT system to
> puncture SGI dominance
> in that world. It was a good time. And around then,
> the relationship with
> Softimage was born and to make a very long story
> short -- the Intergraph
> TDZ-400 became the first shipping, purchasable
> hardware system for DS. I
> worked down the hall from the engineers designing,
> building, and testing the
> StudioZ cards. I was one of the first people in the
> world to do production
> on the TDZ-based DS.
>
> When I first saw DS -- I thought.. holy sh**! This
> is the product I need. I
> was so tired of doing the Media
> Composer/Photoshop/After Effects loop and
> managing all the versions and other crap you have to
> manage with that
> workflow. So there was born my initial passion and
> love for DS. And
> besides... I had the same gap in my teeth that
> Daniel did. It was karma. And
> DS and Softimage (and later Avid) were very very
> good to me. DS took me many
> cool places and I worked on a ton of cool projects.
>
> And in that time, the DS forum was born. At first,
> we were a pretty ragtag
> bunch. I remember Scott Witthaus's first setup...
> dangerously close to
> collapsing at all times, and wildly cutting edge at
> the time. We all stared
> in awe at realtime uncompressed NTSC dissolves. That
> was some hot stuff. The
> early passion was shared by all the users and the
> Softimage crew -- Michel,
> Sylvain, Pascale (yeow!,) Lynn, Phillipe, Janick,
> Wojtek, Dominic, Sheasby,
> Stojda, and all the devs who never posted but were
> always there.... we were
> all truly "on a mission from Gawd." (we'll ignore
> Taliesn Jones and Sam
> Small) I've done professional demos for a long time,
> and I still feel
> reverential awe when I think of how Dean and Tony
> would hold early demos
> together with cheeks puckered hoping to hell that
> nothing exploded --
> because when DSv1 exploded, it did so fairly
> dramatically.
>
> I have made good lifelong friends via this list.
> When my wife and I had our
> first child, the e-mails and warmth both on- and
> off-list from my friends on
> the forum brought joy to our lives. I always thought
> it was amazing that
> this new life had people all over the world who were
> aware of her
> introduction and wished her Godspeed. The list was
> always a community first
> and a "product list" second.
>
> Even after I left the DS fold, I couldn't bring
> myself to unsubscribe. The
> people and spirit here was something special. For
> those of you that have
> been active on the list since I "left" -- I have
> vicariously enjoyed your
> posts and spirit and felt somehow a part of it. What
> Avid has or hasn't done
> with DS is a discussion for boardrooms and barrooms.
> But the closing of this
> list is a closing of a chapter in my life. Is that
> weird? Maybe... but it's
> how I feel. I'm sure the list will continue at
> Google or Yahoo or
> wherever... but it won't be DS(at)softimage.com.
> Softimage. DS.
>
> So to all of you on the list who know me and who
> don't know me...
> Godspeed...
>
> Signing off...
>
> Lucas Wilson
>
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