The Scarecrow
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Hi, this animated commercial is one of many that I’ve come across that I enjoyed the story and animation is superb, and the meaning is direct and truthful. My kudos to the team that worked on it !

RedShift Render & Softimage customized Icons
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Many in the CG World are RedShift Beta Users, it is a excellent Render for both the Maya and Softimage communities. I wanted to share a render that I did a while ago with an earlier beta of RedShift, the speeds of the renders were incredible fast, although I continue to resort back to MentalRay when I need close to if not, realistic renders, hopefully that will change with RedShift, or the soon to be commercially released Arnold Render, but MentalRay is a dependable render engine.

redshift_preview

Here are the customized Softimage Icons that I created for the U.I
si_ui_icons

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RenderTree
ICE
Custom Scripts
Schematic View
Scene Search

Here is an old Softimage graphic I was going to use as a Softimage ICE Icon a long time ago.
ICEIcon_Graphic

Camera Raw Love
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I recently found that Camera Raw can be used for designers. I didn’t believe this, until I watched this tutorial. Photoshops clone stamp tool, you never know what you were sampling, thanks to Camera Raw you can preview what exactly your sampling, that is just one of many tips and techniques I found from watching the tutorial.

Below are two images, the left is the regular image downloaded from the Net, the right is re-touched in Camera Raw.
BeforeAfter

Machine does and will do, only what you tell it to do !
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A Machine will do exactly what you want it to do.

Weight Map Switch by Object
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I whipped up this quick ICE Tree, that with the aid of an object allows you to turn on and off the weight map of an object by moving the torus as seen in the image which is just a proxy object.

ObjectBooleanSwitch

Photoshop Color Replace for Softimage (Mental Ray)
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I want to share with you a Mental Ray Photoshop color replace tree that I have created.
mentalray_replacecolor

ICE and Progressing
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I’ve spent a fair amount of time in ICE recently, I’ve created a few FX that could be used for just about anything. The following ICE Tree is a simple example of the math in ICE. I’m adding the total number of points from one of the sphere and the cube, then subtracting the total points from the other sphere, exciting stuff. If you haven’t see what I’ve shared with the Softimage community please visit my vimeo page.

Comments are not working, I hope to resolve this very soon. Next post will be in a week, promise 🙂

ValuesA
ValueB

Welcome 2013 – Christopher (aka The Creative Sheep)
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Hello, welcome to 2013. It has been a long time since my last post, I have been busy. I can guarantee that 2013 will be (hopefully) a better year. I will be re-establishing myself, if you are not already aware “The Creative Sheep” is my branding, that will not change, everything around it will. I will start to begin by writing more frequent posts every two weeks from this point forward. I’ve had these two funny music video clips sitting on my HDD for a long time.

Los Mono – Promesas
Los Mono – Se Puede

I hope you have had a good Holiday
See you soon 🙂