Does somebody really use Toxik in feature film production with satisfaction?!

[chris]

@fantasio 27298 wrote:

Depressing experience with Toxik! Or does somebody really use Toxik in feature film production with satisfaction?!

among others, i can confirm that Disney Feature is using it in production but i cant go into details for NDA reasons.

//garyD

[Filipp Lepalaan]

Hi Gary,

I have to admit that the title is provocative ;-), and that was both on purpose (to get reaction) and because I was a bit nervous.
What I have written is real experience and all the problems have been mentionned to autodesk support (at least I have reported them to my supervisor who is in direct contact with the support, and he is regulary on the phone for toxik related issue).

I’m very happy to know that people are using it with satisfaction because it is also my wish.
BTW, can you tell me if Disney is using it on linux or on windows?

Again thanks for your inputs.

ciao,
antoine.

[Filipp Lepalaan]

Hi Gary,

I have to admit that the title is provocative ;-), and that was both on purpose (to get reaction) and because I was a bit nervous.
What I have written is real experience and all the problems have been mentionned to autodesk support (at least I have reported them to my supervisor who is in direct contact with the support, and he is regulary on the phone for toxik related issue).

I’m very happy to know that people are using it with satisfaction because it is also my wish.
BTW, can you tell me if Disney is using it on linux or on windows?

Again thanks for your inputs.

ciao,
antoine.

[chris]

@fantasio 27364 wrote:

is using it on linux or on windows?

i believe primarily linux based on their existing pipeline. i personally dont know if they have also been using it on windows or mac.

//gD

[Jasper Brekelmans]

Hi,

Disney is using Linux I have worked with them helping their artist get up to speed on Toxik. There are many studios and production houses using Toxik 2009 but I can’t give you their names just yet. Most of them are Linux and with the announcement of Toxik on the Mac there are others who are Maya/Shake houses on the Mac that are very interested in Toxik.

[Filipp Lepalaan]

Dear Charles,

I am using right now the last toxik 2009 sp1 and the color correction with input mask problem is now GONE! Ahh, it feels so much better now. So good that I hold the linux install for later 😉

I will see if I encounter others performance problem, but this one was really the big harcel, as the comp posted above is actually the CG color correction part common to every comp, so I was having this issue on everyone of them.

More testing and reports to come.

For now I am a happy man. THANKS to everybody! Specially the toxik development team 😉

ciao,
antoine.

[Filipp Lepalaan]

Dears forum users,

I am still having quite annoying issues whith toxik 2009 sp1, info and print screen have been sent to autodesk support, but for now no news, so I tought maybe somebody here has some idea. See the attached picture, that is an error message I get a lot of times, playing with GMask, Reaction node, grouping ungrouping, look to the backburner monitor windows and come back to toxik, etc….
It is always described as an access violation. Is there something with addressing the RAM, or is it related to a dpx header????

Thanks,
antoine.

As a side note, I still think GMask needs more performance improvements, the Reaction node is not as stable as I wish.
Note that I am running toxik under microsoft windows.

[summerJ]

could you please verify your system in detail. os and hardware.

thx

[Filipp Lepalaan]

Computer:
Windows Vista 64bit Business SP1
Dual Xeon X5460 @ 3.16GHz
8 gig of RAM
Quadro FX4600
Media cache on 3 drives’ raid 0 (around 200MB/s)

What else?

Thanks,
antoine.

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

toxik works on vista 64?

[Filipp Lepalaan]

From autodesk website:
“The 64-bit version of Toxik 2009 software is supported on any of the following operating systems:

* Microsoft Windows Vista Business (SP1 or higher)
* Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition (SP2 or higher)
* Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4.0 WS operating system (U6)
* Fedoraâ„¢ 8″

So yes it is Vista 64 certified.

[summerJ]

sorry man – i dont have any experience with vista, but it is definitely the os i wouldn´t choose, if you have any chance go linux.

nanuk

[summerJ]

sorry man – i dont have any experience with vista, but it is definitely the os i wouldn´t choose, if you have any chance go linux.

nanuk

[dennis]

We used Toxik 2007 for Sing to the Dawn. Things we love are GUI and versioning. We did the render from outside Toxik, using script because it’s a lot faster, and we can sent to backburner as well. We R&D quite a lot the python script, try to automate the multi pass CG files insertion to comp, batch renders, etc. I’m eager to try the new feature in version 2009, the maya integration. Is it possible to do the integration between PC’s or the maya and toxik should be in the same PC?

The downside probably we had a lot of was Exception error (as in Antoine). The worst error is Assertion (something, I forgot the detail). When this one occured, we couldnt re-open the comp…bye2 comp :(. It happened once we lost a whole project due to this error! The reaction node sometimes caused crash. We used reaction quite a lot, some comp can have more than 10 reactions.

The archieving system is still unpredictable, I guess. We can’t restore some archieves, especially the whole project archieves. Comp archieves are quite safe.

Anyway, im sure they fixed a lot of bugs already. Looking forward to test the version 2009!

[Filipp Lepalaan]

Hi Dubiduu,

Were you running toxik on linux or microsoft windows? Thanks

Have fun testing the 2009.

Sorry cannot help you with maya integration, we are not using maya here, but I think you don’t need to have both applications on the same computer.

Thanks and cheers,
antoine.

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