An eccentric CG authority had "realised his dream in a form never seen before" and specially constructed a production arena called "XSI Stadium" in his castle where visiting artists from "around the world" would compete against time to produce a finished shot in *one* work day. We have our masters and will be revealing them in a few days:
Modeling/Texturing - ???? ????????
Rigging and Technical Direction - ??????? ????
Animation and Face Robot - ???? ???????
Shading and Lighting - ???? ?????
This is the format for this year's XSI Master Class. The event will run from Sunday afternoon through Monday morning over an 8 hour period. Officially, there are 2 hours per production segment, but we're expecting (hoping for!) overflows and overlaps. We're going to demonstrate the logistics of working in a non-linear production pipeline and hopefully figure out how to pull it all together... before time runs out.
We have official sponsorship thanks to Boxx Workstations, a venue with food and drinks thanks to Jen and Softimage, and hopefully a nice crowd to support us and to get some education and entertainment thanks to the XSI Community.
Hope to see you there!
-Chairman Gabe
