Re: Fourth Berlin/Germany XSI Usermeeting! - What a nice evening this was! :-)

["Markus Daum" <markus.daum.3d(at)googlemail.com>]

Hi guys!

downloads you say... is there something available for the general public too...? ;-) I would be interested to take a look!

Cheers,
Markus

On 03/09/06, Tim Leydecker <BauerOink@gmx.de > wrote:

Hi Thomas,

IÂd have come over for a shake-hands but I forgot.
YouÂre right, HelgeÂs stuff was fun to watch, IÂm
looking forward to get my hands on the downloads.

Nice guys, nice stuff, nice location, well...nice event!

Cheers

tim




----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Helzle" < xsi@screendream.de>
To: < XSI@Softimage.COM>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Fourth Berlin/Germany XSI Usermeeting! - What a nice evening this was!
:-)


> 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@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@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@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 StraÃe 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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