It's also not always possible to showcase something a customer is doing, =
IE: if you work with WB good luck showing anything.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Thiago Costa <thiagocosta3d(at)gmail.com> =
wrote:
There's a list of Facerobot users =
http://www.softimage.com/products/facerobot/default.aspx
including EA, Sony, Spontaneous, NVidia...
Looks like Face Robot is an independent product and this is how they =
wanna sell it.
What I don't get from Softimage is why they don't show their product =
like Image Matrics does
(http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3D4480)
publishing features, showing lots of videos, projects, etc... Doing the =
job of bring people to check out their product, at least.
The thing is:=20
Why it always take so long to put a decent video showing features?=20
The only explanation would be the classic: Because nobody is using it.
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color=3D#000080 size=3D2>But you are right, it is difficult to get a =
snipplet from=20
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<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D705140614-13042008><FONT =
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color=3D#000080 size=3D2>Still frames are easier to get, but that does =
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<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Holger =
Sch=F6nberger</FONT>=20
<BR><FONT face=3DArial size=3D1>technical director</FONT><BR><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
size=3D1>The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the =
night=20
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<FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><B>From:</B> owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM=20
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Raffaele=20
Fragapane<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 11, 2008 8:20 PM<BR><B>To:</B> =
XSI(at)Softimage.COM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Face Robot1.9...What are =
softimage=20
doing?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>The reason why Softimage isn't showcasing it the way =
facemetrics=20
does, is that soft has some ethics going and the intention not to get=20
sued.<BR>From the Thread about that article:<BR><A=20
=
href=3D"http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3D5079016&postcoun=
t=3D47">http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=3D5079016&postcoun=
t=3D47</A><BR><BR>It's=20
also not always possible to showcase something a customer is doing, =
IE: if you=20
work with WB good luck showing anything.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=3Dgmail_quote>On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Thiago Costa =
<<A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:thiagocosta3d(at)gmail.com">thiagocosta3d(at)gmail.com</A>>=20
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=3Dgmail_quote=20
style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: =
rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">There's=20
a list of Facerobot users <A=20
href=3D"http://www.softimage.com/products/facerobot/default.aspx"=20
=
target=3D_blank>http://www.softimage.com/products/facerobot/default.aspx<=
/A><BR>including=20
EA, Sony, Spontaneous, NVidia...<BR><BR>Looks like Face Robot is an=20
independent product and this is how they wanna sell it.<BR>What I =
don't get=20
from Softimage is why they don't show their product like Image =
Matrics does=20
(<A =
href=3D"http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3D4480"=20
=
target=3D_blank>http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3D=
4480</A>)<BR>publishing=20
features, showing lots of videos, projects, etc... Doing the job of =
bring=20
people to check out their product, at least.<BR><BR>The thing is: =
<BR>Why it=20
always take so long to put a decent video showing features? <BR>The =
only=20
explanation would be the classic: Because nobody is using=20
it.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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