Tomas Egger

Hey Spleeve, EIAS 8 GI & Raytrace engine is reallly faster than EIAS 7, Would be interesting to see render time difference from 7 & 8. Thanksss Tom

Ola Rick, Amazing TIP!!!! Worked like a charm!!! Which version are you using? Thanksss Tom

Ola my friends, What can be done to improve Sim Cloth and Bones deformations? 1) Open Prj 2) Hit Preview button on Camera viewport to simulate 3) The cylinder deformed by bones will intersect the plane. Thanksss Tom Sim Cloth.zip

Hey Dieguito.. REALLLLY IMPRESSIVE!!!! You need to do some Video tutorials to everybody here showing these amazing ideas.. :) Thanksss Tom

Hey Ash, TERRIFIC WORK!!! Thanks Tom

Ola Excelent Michael!! btw: Boris Vallejo is a amazing artists... :) Thanksss Tom

Ola, We have a long road to bring what we always dreamed and let us confident. We are really happy, time to share this everyday.. Thanksss Tom

Ola Tango, Agree with file formats and frame rates.. About Codec, I use a lot Quicktime PNG, its lossless but have 1/3 size of Animation format... Thanksss Tom

Ola Bill, I dont have A edge, but all EIAS 7 UB shaders and plug-ins are supposed to work with EIAS 8. Drop a msg to Triple D Tools... :) Thankss Tom

Ola Buggsy, Great work... if you have time later, Why dont try to use EIAS 8 area lights and the new GI sampling engine to compare? Thanksss Tom

Ola batoloco OBJ2FACT is a product of Ramjac, so please contact with them about this purchase. Thanksss Tom & Igors

Hey Buggsy, The idea is really interesting, I want to consult the EIAS3d team, because we are thinking on other ideas too, so, probably we can mix all your efforst with us.. Thanksss a lot Tom

Hey Dieguito, Worked like a charm!!! Niceeee!!!! Excelent test too!!! I saw Reptidle Pro export all groups in one click, one file per group, but MDDIO only export one file each time. I was thinking, because XSI automaticly export all groups and all MDD files separated, you need only to convert to .fac with OBJ2FACT batch and them load all MDD files with using the “folder” feature from MDD 1.0. One thing I like most in the MDD plug-in is the ability to reload the animation if the client ask. e.g. 1) You do a complex animation in Maya, having the first frame like a T-pose, export to EIAS (OBJ first frame and MDD). 2) Add all materials, textures, Light on EIAS 3) Render the animation 4) Client ask changes 5) you re-do the animation in Maya 6) Only export MDD motion file 7) replace the MDD files on the folder and reload in the MDD plug-in. 8) Everything is ready again Fantastique Thanksss Tom

Ola, hehe... its By The Way.... :) Tom

Ola, Now, we have huge to do list, but I have lots of ideas to make video tutorials showing cool stuff to our user base. Thanksss Tom

Hey Mark, You dont need to use greenscreen in this particular trick, you need only to track the spheres attatched to the body or face, of course, a plain color behind in the background is important, because will help to let the spheres more in separated, remember, if the balls have a color or they are white, the background need to be a color. You can light your background using lights from your sides and from your celling too. Syntheyes have the tutorials to do Mocap. Thanksss Tom

Hey Monday, Excelent btw... Thanksss Tom

Hey Mark, Its your idea.... I hope too. Everytime I become free, I will try to do a making of to our friends here. Thanksss Tom

Hey Mark, Motion Capture probably is cheaper than I used in that time... was $10.000 to a session. (a good one) Today, you can get a black cloth to entire body and self illuminant spheres from 3M in the correct joints of your body, rent 3 or 4 digital video cameras (the same model) with same fps frame rate. And buy a 3d tracker software like Syntheyes http://www.ssontech.com/ which does motion capture too, more manually of course but cost only $399, btw: its the software I use everyday. You can use with Syntheyes the “dots” in the face, but they still used only to facial tracker. :) Thankss Tom

Ola my friends, Our first Music video clip which we won 1 MTV award in Brazil (1998) Sorry, its in portuguese and dont have caption. http://www.ottostudios.com/OTTOSTUDIOS/Blog/Entries/1998/12/15_Made_in_Japan_Making_of.html Hope you like it Thanksss Tom

Ola my friends, A Music video clip which we won 1 MTV award in Brazil (2000) Sorry, its in portuguese and dont have caption. http://www.ottostudios.com/OTTOSTUDIOS/Blog/Entries/2000/12/2_Get_Down_Making_of.html Hope you like it Thanksss Tom

Ola my friends, A Music video clip which we won 2 MTV awards in Brazil (2001) Sorry, its in portuguese and dont have caption. http://www.ottostudios.com/OTTOSTUDIOS/Blog/Entries/2001/12/5_O_Rappa_Making_of.html Hope you like it Thanksss Tom

Ola my friends, To start our new sub-forum: A TV adv. which I did to Healthy insurance company in Brazil named “Golden Cross” http://www.ottostudios.com/OTTOSTUDIOS/Blog/Entries/2008/5/30_Golden_Cross.html Hope you like it Thanksss Tom

Ola Diego!, I just tried, its working fine.. btw: You can have only one MDD plug-in to all groups. I just sent you a sample project with your files.. Thanksss Tom

Ola Diegoo!!, Could you send to us your Mdd export and OBJs from C4D? I would like to see your latest test which works... Thankssss Tom