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

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

Cheers guys, really appreciated! :o))

Markus

On 04/09/06, Thomas Helzle <xsi@screendream.de> wrote:

Yes, Helge was so nice to make the things he did at the evening and some other examples available for download.
Visit the german XSI Forum here:
http://xsiforum.de/thread.php?postid=36483#post36483

Again: BIG BIG THANKS TO Helge!

Best regards,

Thomas Helzle



On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:49:58 +0200, Markus Daum <markus.daum.3d@googlemail.com > wrote:

> 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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