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“…Im probably gonna say something that i will probably regret, but im gonna say it anyway…”

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Hey,

So here we are with the final part of our interview/chat with Jonathan and Sintel project and the final show that has been sitting in our vault ready to be released.

Im so glad now that we have no more shows to produce and publish and we can move forward and release new shows as we make them. Especially since i have a better way of recording and I’am no longer distracted by what is going on behind the scenes. ie Levels, the mixer, the recorder etc. It really takes my eye off the ball when we are talking about stuff.

Anyway, in this episode I begin by asking Jonathan how many character/lifeforms will be in the Durian Project. How many will he be modelling etc.
I suggest an idea that would invalidate the Sintel project for being known to have been created with open-source software.

The durian blog has had many contributions of the past few months and we discuss one particular persons’ views. Juan Romero felt the original design of the Guardians wasnt as strong as it could be. Original Design

So the Durian team let the public have a crack at making it better. Nad here is his attempts / contributions.
Image 1 – Stylized
Image 2 – Realism

And we end with would Big Buck Bunny be better today with the current version of Blender and we finally talk about Blender becoming a full featured professional production worthy tool in years to come and is it a question of ‘if’ or ‘when’.

As for the plug, i forgot mine in this episode so i let you know at the beginning of the show, of a place that i think y’all should check out, if your into Maya and/or Mental Ray.
Greensoda.tv

Its a cool site made by Alex Villabon (Twitter) a cool artist and a listen of our show.

Eugene had a few blogs to promote of people talking about the industry..
CG Supervisor
FX Corner

And Jonathan obviously had the Durian Project

So its a short show, but now we can move forward and talk about things that are currently in the news.

Look forward to making another episode. Sooner rather than later.

“…this episode was recorded on the 14 February…..Sorry about that…”

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Sorry sorry sorry sorry. Yeah it’s been a while. Simply put… ive been busy.

This episode in particular was recorded on 14 February so its a little dated but hey. Most people are still talking about the topics we talk about in this episode so it is still a little relevant.

We chat about Avatar (for the first time) . We have a discussion about being burnt out on cg. Eugene refers to a couple who made a film in 3 years. I didn’t know it at the time but it has to be this one.

Meet Meline –  Amazing execution and cool story. I knew about this film years ago on CG talk where a lot of the work was displayed in their WIP forum.
Anyway, we also chat with one of the modelers on Sintel and guess who it is…

And we talk a bit about the open letter to James Cameron.

You can download the VFXTownHall meeting mp3 from VFXHaiku and the event with the slides and analysis on FXGuide.com (plus they have a lot of other insightful info on the topic)

Part 2 will be released next Sunday.

Bye

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“…Avatar…it’s gonna be Avatar…”

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We got a big episode here. It had to be split in two (and because I’m really nice I didn’t make you wait a week in-between).

The Oscars are right around the corner. And I wanted to get our predictions before it actually happens. I actually wanted to get our predictions in the last episode that we recorded (that’s the next one to be released) but I forgot and ran out of time.

We talk about the disgraceful CEO that ran off with the IP of his company that is going bust (Link) and then we move onto the CEO of Activision and how he wants his employees to feel like crap (Link). So happy stories this time ’round. But we move onto the main topic of the show.

Which to be honest is too much to summarize and when the Oscars come out and we do another show i will be sure to list our predictions. Really just listen to it, to know what we said.

More shows to come.

Until then… Enjoy

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