It was cool ! See you next year !

Feed back stuff, many photos and Russian speech:

• http://picasaweb.google.com/cgevent/CGEVENT20081 – day one
• http://picasaweb.google.com/cgevent/CGEVENT20082 – day two
• http://picasaweb.google.com/luno17/CGEVENT20082930 – nice sepia photos 🙂
• http://picasaweb.google.ru/zabelinvlad/CGEVENT2008
• http://picasaweb.google.com/Vodoley88/CGevent2008
• http://picasaweb.google.com/Vodoley88/Cgevent200805
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tykobi/sets/72157610647521011/ – photos by Mach Tony Kobayashi (Pixar) NEW
• http://picasaweb.google.com/sashagorec/CGEvent2008WinterMkRisunok
• http://www.cgtalk.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=22124
• http://forum.cgtalk.by/showthread.php?t=4374
• http://www.myarchipress.com/archives/2008/12/02/1195
• http://blog.leoartz.com/2008/12/02/cgevent_2008_feedback/
• http://renderman.ru/forum/read.php?1,7839

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1.A New Era – from sidefx.com

The news that Softimage will be acquired by Autodesk marks the end of an era. The past 20 years, developing software alongside Softimage has been a dynamic time, full of innovation and healthy competition. Starting with character animation in 1988, Softimage has advanced the industry in many areas. I would personally like to thank my contemporaries for their past contributions to the CG community.

Since this news was first announced, discussion on the forums has been lively and has evoked a wide range of emotions. In some of the posts, the role of Houdini and Side Effects is being discussed and I wanted to address some of the speculation about who we are and where we are going.

2. Cool clip, Autodesk internal discussion about Softimage 🙂

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• Job Exec Order – new abilities for job schedule !
• Job Dependences between any job !
• In-line job list edit – job priority and order !
• New job tag for preventing submit jobs w/ not unique output sequences
• Any color mask for any jobs
• New multi host commands on render farm (user customized)

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Indicators by Programeter

• Know-How Score. Illustrates breadth of the programmer’s knowledge in the project.
• Unique Know-How. Measures knowledge of the programmer that is NOT shared with other team members.
• Fresh Know-How. Measures programmer’s knowledge that was refreshed during the reporting period.
• New Know-How. Measures knowledge of the programmer that was introduced during the reporting period.
• Contribution Size. Illustrates the amount of code produced by the programmer.
• Activity. Indication of the programmer’s activity during 1 month.
• Team Friendliness. Illustrates how much the programmer is oriented towards working together with other team members.
• Complexity. It is McCabe’s cyclomatic complexity of the average non commenting code statement produced by the programmer.
• Density of Comments. Ratio of comments to the total source code produced by the programmer.

P.S: By the way company located in Estonia (former USSR republic), like Skype when it was the startup 🙂

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Apple filing takes Podcasts to the next level – Fanny 🙂 Tree patents, but none of which have come to fruition as of yet !

“A recently published filing discovered by AppleInsider reveals work by Apple’s chief software architect to advance the Podcast beyond its static form and into a live interactive presentation medium suitable for use by educational institutes and businesses for their daily presentations.”

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1. Talks by vfx supervisors Mike Fink and Jeffrey Okun at CineGear 2008, care of StudioDaily. Some fanny and interesting video, Jeffrey Okun talking about Balancing Artistry & Budgets 🙂 (more…)

http://dontclick.it – some nostalgia 🙂 At the beginning of 2006, this site was Cool As Hell , but rigth now, it is like not usable funny stuff 🙂 P.S: We just installed in our blog Digg, sociable bookmarks and Gravatars !d.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0].appendChild(s);