Just a short retrospect on yesterdays Usermeeting here in Berlin, Germany:
It was really great. I learned quite a lot, especially since I am just now starting to look into rigging in XSI for the first time (before I used messiah:studio for that mostly). Helge Mathee had quite some eye-openers for me :-)
To see Helges Template Based Rigging Plugin in more depth in the hands of his master was very helpful. While I had seen the video on XSIBlog, I missed a lot of the specials in this tool and most of all I missed some of the basic ideas behind it. Now I grokked it! Cool!
The Particle Flocking on the basis of particle events, which drives a flock of crows along a guiding spline with a lot of control on how close or loosely they follow it and how "individual" they behave was also impressive. They not only had one pattern of movement, but several which were blended between to make the look much more natural. I was really inspired by this.
Helges custom Hair Dynamics (developed together with Graham D Clark) with the option to also "rig" the hair in parallel and therefore allow the animator to actually grab the hair and animate it "on top" and together with the automatic behavior was such a pleasure to watch - such an intuitive tool and workflow we all dream of :-)
So a thousand THANKS go to Helge Mathee for this great presentation! Superb inspiration!
Also I want to thank Ioannis Zonitsas for scouting the location - it was the best one so far IMO!
And thanks to all who participated for a very nice evening!
Hope to see you all on the next meeting.
Best regards,
Thomas Helzle
http://www.screendream.de
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:12:39 +0200, Thomas Helzle <xsi(at)screendream.de> wrote:
> Ok, the countdown is running... ;-)
>
> This evening at 19:00 our fourth Usermeeting in Berlin will take place (see details below or at http://www.xsi-berlin.org/).
>
> Me and my girlfriend had the pleasure of meeting Helge yesterday evening already for some nice pasta, and we had a very interesting talk about "XSI and everything" ;-)
>
> So everybody is invited today to also profit from the great knowledge that Helge gathered in Projects like Barnyard and his work for Softimage. That he is a very nice guy makes it even more fun :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas Helzle
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:12:48 +0200, Thomas Helzle <xsi(at)screendream.de> wrote:
>
>> Just an update:
>>
>> Helge Mathee from Softimage will join us on Saturday (see details below).
>> He will update us with the latest news, provide help with problems and profoundly answer questions about XSI and scripting.
>> Maybe he will even be able to show us some of the Siggraph 2006 Boston Usergroup things?
>> At least we can hope :-)
>>
>> Thanks you Helge and Softimage for your support!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Thomas Helzle
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:23:20 +0200, Thomas Helzle <xsi(at)screendream.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear XSI-list,
>>>
>>> I am happy to announce the fourth XSI Usermeeting in Berlin, Germany!
>>>
>>> We will gather at Saturday the 2. September 2006 at 19:00 in the
>>>
>>> Vietnamese Restaurant "CUNO"
>>> Schlesische Straße 5
>>> 10997 Berlin
>>> Phone 030-69 51 84 63
>>> in the back of the rooms.
>>> (Thanks to Ioannis Zonitsas for scouting the location!)
>>>
>>> Find a map of the area here:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/p8zz6
>>>
>>> I will have my Laptop with me and there is a screen and a projector at the restaurant, so we can show things big this time :-)
>>> Like always: Please bring current Work, Demoreels etc. with you and if you have to show some tricks: Tutorials are very VERY welcome too.
>>>
>>> This information can also be found at our homepage:
>>> http://www.xsi-berlin.org/
>>>
>>> I hope to see a lot of you people there ;-)
>>>
>>> Best Regards!!!
>>>
>>> Thomas Helzle
>>> www.screendream.de
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