Re: Siggraph XSI Master Challenge is ON!!!

Date : Thu, 31 May 2007 17:54:08 +0930
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Nick <nick.petit(at)gmail.com>
Subject : Re: Siggraph XSI Master Challenge is ON!!!
Knowing Raff, that would be animated slices of strangled kittens.

On 5/31/07, Fabian Schnuer <admin(at)schnuer.com > wrote:
Would that be strangled kittens or sliced animators?

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 15:04 -0700, Bradley Gabe wrote:
> One step ahead of you there, Thomas. I've been saving all of the
> victims Raffaele "Jaco" Fragapane has been sending to me.
>
> > Allez cuisine!
> >
> > So, what will you be taking a big bite out of--maybe a shader apple?
> > You'll also need an esteemed panel of judges, preferably a prominent
> > CG critic, an astrologer, and a beautiful actress who doesn't know
> > anything about CG.  And don't forget to come up with an interesting
> > secret ingredient, like "2D compositing" or "foie gras".
> >
> > - TK
> >
> >
> > On 5/25/07, Bradley Gabe < withanar(at)stanwinston.com> wrote:
> >         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
> >
> --
> Bradley R. Gabe | Senior Creature TD | Stan Winston Studio

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