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for autodesk smoke tips & tricks,
visit mysmokeI want to mention that we have a tips section here at fxguide as well — we’d love to see our readers contribute material that to include there. We’ve been around for years and years — and have no plans to leave, so you’ll know we’ll be here when you need to look something up. 🙂
Fxguide actually started as a flame/smoke site where users would share information with others. Over time it changed into the reality we were the only ones creating the tutorials and it became a one way street. We’d love to have more user submitted tips and tricks.
I miss the tips/tricks section John. Everybody was contributing there. And/or you were adding tricks from flame-news. But that section is not updated for very long time. No tips for long time?..
The tips section is still here, link at the end of this post. The problem has been lack of incoming tips. We held contests with prizes (out of our own pockets) and even with offering incentives we got very few tips. After a while, as John said, it became a one way street and we also found ourselves wanting to do more indepth tips than could be illustrated with a simple web page.
We started doing quicktime tutorials on fxguide (like the one on Flame’s modular keyer which has almost 30,000 views today), we found these to be a great tool but bandwidth costs made it prohibitive to start doing only that. When that tip was created fxguide ran on a screenless laptop on one of our employers T1 lines. We then got into doing live events and DVD’s but found that DVD’s take too long and are stale by the time you get them out and live events reach a small audience and are an incredible amount of work. Plus research showed us a lot of DVD’s never get watched.
Our commitment and focus on tips helped create fxphd.com, where we move around 8 terrabytes of data a month to hundreds of post grads around the world using several servers in proper data centers to distribute the load and get enough bandwidth. We also wanted to reach out beyond areas we knew well enough to do tips on (which is why most of our tips on fxguide are Flame related) so we have recruited amazing professors from all over to bring their experience to the mix. fxphd has the business model to support the bandwidth and the amount of work that goes into it, which is significant. We also have created a great community where people interact with each other and the professors in the forums (and in real life as it turns out).
All this to say we still do support tips and encourage people to send us tips for fxguide, you can find them here: fxguide.com/fxtips.html (also see the resources pulldown at the top of every page). I hope I have explained some of the history and you can see our dedication to this has not shrunk, but in fact grown leaps and bounds.
Jeff
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