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Well Im doing my Masters Degree at the Academy of Art University, SF
Most of my teachers are former ILM pros, that got tired of working all day. The program head is Tom Bertino, he has been with iLM for over 20 years. Most of them as rotoscoping chief…
I am very happy with the school and its staff, plus they have tons of contacts including ILM, Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, etc. They all come to recruit for internships as well as jobs…
I just switched to combustion from after effects. reading the manual and trying my own things I found it fascinating and indeed very powerful, I think combustion still has great potential specially on the mac. Apple is not delivering a lowend compositing tool. Combustion can have more integration with FCP and Maya since this is what we use…
Thanks martincito it worked, I uninstalled the mouse software and it just worked, Thank you
Moe29 wrote:eltopo wrote:atomoboy wrote:(Now if I can just figure out what to do with this giant paperweight previously known as an Octane 2…)well , if the octane2 has some decent configuration , you can sell it and get a much nicer fridge for it’s price , such machine still have some market value
I have looked at ebay at their ask for about $400 tops. The problem is what software are going to run on it?
3d software is gone, FFi soon will be gone (we all know it’s a matter of time)
Althought it seems they still offer Nuke for Irix… but that will be it…atomoboy wrote:So what was the verdict? Were you able to use the Stones on a Mac?(Now if I can just figure out what to do with this giant paperweight previously known as an Octane 2…)
http://home.planet.nl/~mourits/koelkast/
I suggest you take a look into this project. I know it’s a bigger box but the principles are the same. BTW how many cubic inches do you need to keed a six pack?
deandec wrote:As much as I would like a software Flame I don’t think they’ll do anything to jeopardize money being made on the high end. Combustion (AE, Shake etc.) hasn’t killed off the high end but if there was a $5k piece of software that could everything a Flame could then say goodbye to selling $150k systems. Combustion holds a nice niche. I won’t require that much for them to keep it viable. Hell, I don’t even really care about new features I’d just like it to be streamlined and debugged a bit. I would love to have that Flame desktop though…….. Can’t believe no one has ripped that concept off in some pc software. But all in all I now prefer working in Combustion over FLame but then again it’s been a while since I worked on one.Remember that Shake used to cost 5K?
I bet Shake’s replacement will be a great headache for AM&E. Apple makes its money from selling computers (and iPods I know) so they can create a realtime 2k compositor for 10K including hardware with 90% of the features Flame has plus some other things such as working with QT, final cut pro, photoshop on a single machine. Perhaps it will come as a whole package and you get an smoke+flame killer for 1/30 of the price…zolo wrote:deandec wrote:It’s unfortunate that there always has to be such wild speculation with Discreet products.Well to be blunt, there ARE no Discreet products anymore. The Autodesk assimilation is complete. Autodesk Flame. Autodesk Smoke. Autodesk Toxic. Autodesk Combustion. Get used to it.
Autodesk is similar to most other big software houses in that they do not publicly comment about future products.
It’s simple, really. Use Combustion 4 now if it fits your needs. If it ceases to do that, or if a potential future version does not meet your needs, find another tool that will. I know very few artists who limit themselves to dependence on one tool. Regardless, there’s very little you can do about whatever Autodesk chooses to do with Combustion, so don’t sit around worrying about it.
I totally agree with you. Autodesk is a big company in which the Media & Entertainment is one of the smaller divisions. If they see that Combustuion is more of a burden they will scrap it, period. Maybe they are reshaing their strategy towards the hig end making toxic a software version of Flame, who know the fact of the matter is that it all becomes to money.
Could be that Autodesk wants to leave the low end market and concentrate on the high end. they probably see too much competition fom Adobe and Apple. Perhaps they could sell Combustion to the latter
I don’t think they want to leave the way open to Adobe.
I hope that next version is a universal binary for Mac or that if in fact its replaced by Toxic there will be Mac version.
There is no such thing as the best…
There are many exellent schools, I can help you with ones in the US.
Visit their sites and ask for info…
http://www.academyart.edu (San Francisco)
http://www.scad.edu (Savannah, Atlanta, Georgia)
http://www.usc.edu (L.A.)
http://www.pratt.edu (N.Y.)If you need more info PM me
😀hide under the Octane door a bottle of scotch whisky just in case…
You can get Shake for U$ 500, and no i didn’t miss a zero.
And yes Shake although different is as powerful as Flame in terms of the resukts you can get.The thing is that you have check the specs to see if it runs on a G4 or you need a g5 or an Intel processor…
You have to recompile the program to run on OS X. Depending on the program you will have to modify more or less of it.
there are no emulators for running IRIX on Mac OS X that I know of so I guess it will involve a to of hacking on your part
you need to figure out if the stone format is compatible with mac os x
you will need to make sure the fibre channel stone plug is compatible with Apple’s fibre channel card (i don’t know if the G4 or earlier support that card)In theory they ought to work, maybe you need to reformat the disk array but I will try it…
I see where you are going…
I think apart from the fact that you would have to crack Flame which like everyone says is illegal, you will need to be able to run Irix in virtualization mode, which since its an old OS it doesn’t support it. Also for Virtualization you need the same processor and there never was an IRIX version for .X86 processors only for MIPS which makes it incompatible.
I guess technically it can be possible but you will have to write from the ground up IRIX so it runs on x86, hack Flame and the Virtualization App to support IRIX, and finally install the system on a Mac…
Hey maybe by 2050 you will have it running 😉