I was SO bored by this year’s Siggraph - As most of us here who live far from the US and cannot go to Siggraph I was truly bored with so little updates regarding 3D apps and nothing at all regarding MAX.
Also the coverage of the events wad DEAD.

Even FJORG that was so gladly celbrated last year was practically ignored.

the only stuff was from Softimage and 2-3 updates from Modo Lightwave and C4D ahh and Final Render.

DEAD as can get.

Every year we get many news but now- as if it hand’t happenned at all.

I think those of us who were there just got back to a computer and haven’t had a chance to post photos or blogs yet.  I had a GREAT time at Siggraph and thought there were so many great things happening at once, it was difficult to decide which events to attend!  Some great people, info and parties!

I went for one day (drove up from San Diego) and I had a good time.  I stopped at a number of booths and talked to many people.  Made it over to the job fair as well, talked to people there.  Yes, there was a lot of stuff to do and didn’t cover everything in the one day. 

Because someone ignores something makes it dull?  And only updates to software makes an event interesting?  Did you look at some of the smaller booths (vs Autodesk) to talk and see what they have to offer?

Michel (aka Mike)
software engineer by day...3D interest by night
Max v7
hardware: who cares

Mike

not sure if you noticed - I was talking about the ones who couldn’t be there for distance reasons.

BTW - I am not saying anything agaist you ppl - just that the 3D websites who usually DO cover the event with lts of news and info - were quite dead this year.
Usualy (previous Siggraphs) they would upload lots of news from the event and each day you would see a page full of new news.

Nir

You are correct - I didn’t notice that you did NOT go.  My mistake, and that makes sense of Pepster3D’s comment regarding photos not being posted yet.  Your initial statement made it seem that you were there and were bored by it.  Last week, the Area had a daily log - did you see that?

Michel (aka Mike)
software engineer by day...3D interest by night
Max v7
hardware: who cares

nirsul 19 August 2008 08:03 PM

Mike

not sure if you noticed - I was talking about the ones who couldn’t be there for distance reasons.

BTW - I am not saying anything agaist you ppl - just that the 3D websites who usually DO cover the event with lts of news and info - were quite dead this year.
Usualy (previous Siggraphs) they would upload lots of news from the event and each day you would see a page full of new news.

Nir

Autodesk had live, streaming videos during the event. http://area.autodesk.com/forum/index.php/events/siggraph_08/ Did you watch any of them? The videos posted there now don’t have anything interesting except the Mudbox video (in Day1 tab, go to Videos tab), but there were plenty of demo presentations during SIGGRAPH- Mudbox 2009, 3ds Max, Maya, MotionBuilder. This was the first time Autodesk broadcast streaming videos for those who couldn’t be there.

There wasn’t a whole lot about Max probably because the most recent release was not that long ago. The 3ds Max presentation covered the Creativity Extension for Max 2009 and workflow.

Bulk of the morning demos were shown via streaming videos. Some of them were exclusive to attendees only, but you could still hear the audio.
http://area.autodesk.com/forum/siggraph_schedule

E. K. Anna Hennequet [FA]

I did but most of the time there was a sign saying this is exclusive to Adesk booth visitors

I’d love to read some reviews/blogs on what was new at Siggy… especially from us 3d folks (Max-types hopefully) who bang on this stuff everyday. Any suggestions?

wade s

Max 8 (no mo) & 9 (solo) SP2
Win XP SP2, 3.7 Ghz, 3Gig Ram
Quadro FX 3400

Max was not well covered since there was not a lot of exciting stuff shown, the release was a while ago and most have already seen the example videos. Heard rumors that the road map private meetings were making people a bit happier....
There is a blog from Ken P that confirms that....
The Mudbox stuff and Maya stuff was pretty cool because I hadn’t seen it before. SoftImage ‘s new ICE system looked cool, Particle Flow on Steroids....
Zbrush showed some cool stuff but that UI Still makes no sense and the guy was struggling during the demos, not a good sign....
There was a really cool City Builder application that creates Cities in no time and does it procedurally.
The Vray event showed of some cool real time rendering as well.
The Blur Party rocked, Crystal method played and there were free drinks, can’t complain :) though I missed the Autodesk Party and the Soft party was good I heard. They had Vanilla ICE :)
The coverage was not that strong I think because nothing ground breaking was happening.
Mainly refinement and speed in most apps I saw. The fact there isa recession on in the US might have had some thing to
do with it being quieter.
Boxx gave away free t-shirts and Pixar was giving away something that had people lined up for miles.
Not as much swag as I was hoping for but I brought back quite a bit of stuff to my office ;)
Cheers
Mike K

Core i7 920
Win 7 64 Bit
12 Gigs Ram
ATI 5850
Vray 1.5 SP5

There was a really cool City Builder application that creates Cities in no time and does it procedurally.

regarding this procedural citygen thing:

it’s called CityEngine and you can DL a 30 day trialwith limited export
http://www.procedural.com/cityengine.html

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