[nanuk]

Perhaps the IBC will bring some answers to our questions. I´m realy looking forward to see some new things at the discreet stand.

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

Shake is a great tool, no doubt! But i never heard of it as motion graphics tool. I think that is why Apple brings Motion in. Not the only reason, but a very good one. As I said, I hate AE, but what is realy cool in that app: it does not rasterize vector data! There is a workaround to do the same thing in combustion, but less comfortable. But even this couldn´t convince me to use AE. I rather do the workaround in Combustion. But i will try the Motion/Shake colabo. If i understand this “Motion thing”. 😆 It´s kind of strange. But perhaps you can work with it, if you turn off all that preconfigurated stuff and get down to keyframe animation.

Greets Nanuk

[nanuk]

I have not tried the colabo between shake and motion. And i did not realy try motion. But perhaps that is a way to do motion graphics “with” shake.

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

Hi,
i really understand, that you hate AE. I hate it too. I know it is a powerfull program but the gui is ….. . I do Combustion instead of ae. But i also do Shake. In my oppinion if you have to do real compositing jobs, with keying, rotoskoping etc. Shake is the right tool. But if you need motion graphics with typo animation etc. AE will do better. Don´t forget about the fact, the ae does not rasterize vector data like illustrator files. And features like that are very usefull, if you are doing screen design or stuff like that. So check want you have to do and then choose the tool. But there are other tools as well. Combustion, Digital Fushion, Nuke. Perhaps you should test these tools as well. I don´t mean, that you have to do all the apps, but find “your” app.

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

lisum wrote:

hi,

i´d like to get a testversion too – could you give me the contact of the german reseller, where you got it from?

thanks

http://www.dreamwalks.com/

But I don´t know, if you will get it from them.

Good Luck Nanuk

[nanuk]

What a post! Thank you Xavier.

I´m also a inferno guy, but i also use combustion and shake. After playing around with toxik a couple of days i tought, toxik is a mixture of combustion and shake with some ingredients from FFI. I also used cyborg, so I´m used to this “build your own bersek desktop”. But in cyborg you could build container or groups on the desk and you could edit clips there. At this point I also don´t really see the use of the desktop in toxik. The autoscale and clean up functions are nice gimmicks, but that´s it. I also switched to using a library near to your example. I didn´t realized danger of “that guy”. But you are right. I thought, there are the different users to handle that. Like Admin and so on. And that you can configure users and their rights. Our reseller told me, that you can even build a user, that only handles the data. Like an assistant. But I didn´t get into that deep enought i guess.

I´m curious about the development of toxk.

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

I fully agree with you Xavier! What do you think about the workflow in the program. With it´s´libraries desktops, working in a compostion?

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

mseymour7 wrote:

Version 1.1 was shown at SMPTE Sydney.
It did not have a paint module, nor was it Linux – which I believe are the two big things people want…

It does have a new improved GUI and we’ll cover it in depth in an upcoming podcast and story.

But we welcome hearing your views…

Just what would make you more interested in looking at Toxik?
– Single user license?
– Paint?
– Linux?
– More keyers?

Reply here in this forum – we are not AME – but I am sure we can pass on your points and even your direct questions – if you have any – when we interview the guys in the next short while.

Mike

a single user license would be nice, but i think it is against the philosophy of toxik. I think it really kicks ass when used in a group.

paint is a must have!!!! the same for regrain. have not found it in version 1.0

for me linux is not that important, but perhaps it is faster running on linux. as i know, discreet is changing everything to linux (exept fire and inferno).

discreet has some good keyers. just put them in! 😉

i would like to know about modules like editing, color grading and 3D. if they plan to integrate this things or if they plan a colaboration with other tools like lustre, fire and or smoke (in a way like fcp and shake or i heard about scratch and digital fusion).

And what do you think about the future of the app? in germany it is anounced as some kind of “shake killer”. what do big companies think about it. you know companies that handle blockbuster like weta, ilm, mpc and so on. Are there any statements?

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

Jason Dreggs wrote:

Apart from going to canada,
where in australia can you get training on this?

I just asked our reseller to get a testversion and he gave one to me. He also now offers some training, but I´m in Germany not in Australia. Perhaps you can get some training from one of your resellers.

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

johnmont wrote:

What do you mean? There’s a toxik forum. 😉

If you have any questions feel free to post…I’ll be happy to help you out.

Ok you got me! 😀
Cool!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you really into Toxik?

[nanuk]

zhimama wrote:

thanks, firstly.
1) i got G5 and changed the graphic crad to ATI X800, can i link a TV monitor with this card and show my final works on the tv monitor in shake 4?

2) before shake4, it’s not very convenient to work in pal format in shake, what about shake 4 ?

3) i found that the Genarts.com announced Sapphire Plug-ins for Apple’s Shake 4, does someone get it ( k ) , and works in shake 4 ???

thanks for response.

1) I don´t know if it works with this card. But in general it works. I got a decklink pro hd and there is no problem hitting the broadcastmonitor button.

2) I don´t have any trouble with it.

3) I wouldn´t ask such questions in this forum.

Greetz Nanuk

[nanuk]

thank you, but i know about that. I wanted to extend the whole gui on 2 displays. But if you just drag it across the screens, at some point the gui turns white.

Nanuk

[nanuk]

Thx alot!!!!

Nanuk

[nanuk]

birail wrote:

MarkH wrote:

Hi there. Autodesk Toxik is more like flame than combustion is.

Is anybody know if there is Paint and Text in Toxik ?
thnx
chris

No, not jet.

Cheers Nanuk

[nanuk]

1eyejack wrote:

zolo wrote:

dekekincaid wrote:

zolo wrote:

In summary, being a flame/inferno artist means being part diplomat, part technician, part artist, and part magician. There’s probably other things one could throw into the mix as well, but suffice to say that simply posessing the necessary technical skill and artistic talent isn’t a guarantee of success.

-zolo

You forgot mindreader 🙂

You’re right, that should have been first on the list! I also thought of “miracle worker,” but I guess “magician” is close enough…

😀

-zolo

You forgot you need the patience of a saint or at least mahatma ghandi…when dealing with unreasonable clients. 😆

and entertainer 😉

You have to ask your client if his last party was good, or talking about the weather or so. And work on FFI as fast as possible at the same time. A fireoperator told me once, why he chooses to do film. He don´t want to work with an shotgun fully loaded to his neck! And there is some truth in it, i guess.
I also did the step to the big chair from combustion. Another thing that confused me at the first time sitting on Inferno was alpha channel/premultipling. Cause that is totaly diffrent working with the big guns compaired to C*. Without sitting on FFI it is nearly impossible to learn it. The company i work for first made me a trainee. So i had to do all the archiving, preparing jobs for seniors and so on. Then putting me in nightshift for bigger jobs. And that is quiet cool. Because in the night there is not that much pressure. Because clients don´t sit next to you at night.
Perhaps you can find a company, that will let do you

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