Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 25, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Jay wrote: > Running hot was one of the issues for Kodak to step away - as they > replaced > the monitors when they went away. Costly. Yeah, bad idea. > So, you were at DD for a while, Scott is an old friend of mine from > the SF > Bay area days. When Scott ran ILM? Scott was my first boss in 'the biz'. I see him every once and a while when I go down there, but he's very busy these days with development. I left DD about a year and a half ago, but I still like the place and am very proud of the work the company did. > Can't remember the lead compositor's name - used to be at CIS - his > business > card read "visionaut". Price Pethel? The man who's forgotten more about compositing than most people know? Nuke is his brain child. After he left other people drove it's development, like Jonathan Egstad and Bill Spitzak. > Never did get a chance to play with Nuke, but did like Shake - even > though > it seems to be going the all Apple way You would like Nuke. It makes most other packages look like a toy. > .Are they having problems selling that package? Shake or Nuke? Nuke went commercial about 2 years ago and is slowly gaining momentum. Apple cut off Shake for Windows. They are really only supporting it for OS X and Linux. The biggest problem is cost. Both packages are rather expensive, which limits their mass appeal. feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com