To expand on that.<br><br>The job of a VFX supe is as follows:<br><br>-Budgets for the shot = X.<br><br>-Artist budgeted for 10 weeks on shot.<br><br>-Artist gets it right on the first week.<br><br>-Supe gets artist to do 9 more different versions for the remaining 9 weeks on the of-chance the artist might come up with something better.<br>
<br>-10 weeks are up. First version was better and gets approved.<br><br>-Artist jumps out the tenth floor window and makes bloody mess on pavement. <br><br>-Artist picks himself off the pavement and goes back to work the next day a little more dead inside than 10 weeks and 1 day before.<br>
<br>:) YAY for the Hollywood machine!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Simon Legrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:legrand.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">legrand.simon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Sven Langkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven.langkamp@gmail.com" target="_blank">sven.langkamp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Simon Legrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:legrand.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">legrand.simon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Oh and I almost forgot the possibility for a rather non-linear workflow. Filter layers, layer groups and a lot of the layer management features are great.<br><br>As VFX artists and TDs the more we can do non-linearly the happier we are. The hard thing about what we do isn't creating cool 3D things, it's implementing the Director's changes over and over again. For this we need to 'bake' as little as possible of what we do. Hence the popular workflows of packages like Nuke and Houdini and why packages like 3dsMax and After Effects aren't really used in large studios. <br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Interesting, never thought about it that way. I remember the Krita meeting where we discussed these things e.g. to using nodes instead of layers. The conclusion was that great artists would get it right the first time. <br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Lol. Wow. Hmmmyeah, that kind of statement would get you shot where I come from. :)<br> </div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Simon Legrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:legrand.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">legrand.simon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The most successful aspect of it is that it seemed to be able to deal with pretty large images at high bit depth natively. The next thing was the familiar UI. People in my industry feel at home with QT as most of our vendors use it. Also Krita has a photoshop-esque design that made everyone feel comfortable. But it was the brush engine got the biggest wows. <br>
<br>Of course it was merely a preliminary demo to see if artists were willing to put a bit of a 'bump' in their workflow (by using Krita instead of photoshop) for the greater good. Most were and by next week I have to have a 64bit version installed in our package manager. {Gulp}<br>
<br>The best thing about it was that even artists with a windows machine and potatoshop installed in addition to their Linux box showed a definite interest in testing Krita. I was expecting to only win over the poor sods who only have access to Gimp, but it seemed to win over a lot more people than I expected. <br>
<br>Photoshop has a lot of bells and whistles that we don't need in VFX, if Krita focuses on performance and scalability, it will take photoshop's cake in VFX quite easily I believe. <br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Sven Langkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven.langkamp@gmail.com" target="_blank">sven.langkamp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Simon Legrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:legrand.simon@gmail.com" target="_blank">legrand.simon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Last Friday I ran a Krita demo at Digital Domain London which went amazingly well. <br>The feedback
from the artists was along the lines of: "Wow. I didn't realise it was
going to be THAT good". <br></blockquote></div><div><br>What feature was that? What were the favorites?</div></div><br>
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