Sep 13, 2011

Ants, Linear color workflow, and Softimage fundamentals training,

Hey everyone. I've been recording a lot of foundation stuff lately as the new school year approaches and I get ready for teaching my classes. I'm still trying to figure out the best way organize all the data I plan on uploading to my Vimeo Channel

For now, I've decided to go with albums. Rather than visiting the Channel, I recommend accessing my content here

http://vimeo.com/thejoncrow/albums

This week, the new videos I've added are:

1) Modeling An Ant

2) Fundamentals of Softimage Videos

3) Linear Color Space Workflow

I tend to bounce all over the place when it comes to recording content, thus the utter randomness of the 3.
Some of the modeling stuff is pretty basic, but my intent is to get more people to understand the modeling toolset, and how quick and efficient it can be. At the institutions where I teach, Maya is used as our modeling pipeline, and we use Softimage as a rigging and animation tool. In Soft though, it is necessary to tweak shapes or be able to make changes to the mesh after its been fbx or crosswalked from Maya. The fundamental training is done from the perspective of users having set up their keyboard maps as in my Softimage for Maya User keymap guide.