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Buzz, the Montreal-based visual effects studio, has a new web site up. They’ve got some nice content to view, but of course, I’m biased.
Cheers.

Recently I ran into a severe problem. Whenever I would try to import modules in the Python command line shell, I”d get syntax error pointing to the first line. In fact, trying to import the module in XSI from a custom command gave a syntax error at line… zero! What the?

And everybody except the targeted audience gasps at the price of 95K for Face Robot Designer and 15K for Face Robot Animator.
People in the OSS and free software world like to talk about free speach vs. free beer. Well, it seems to me like the ever widening 3D application userbase likes to have its free [...]

I’m currently winding down on this Behavior project that has been making me loose sleep. I’m at the stage where I need to create my data for my multiple render passes….
Warning: If you’ve never used Behavior before or don’t care for crowd sim, skip this one. If you care for a stupid Behavior trick… Read [...]

A whole lot of time can be wasted by tweeking a parameter in XSI when you don’t know the units it’s expressed in. This is especially true in simulation.
Simulations
You can deduce the units of a parameter rapidly with only a few tries. The Age of a particle is expressed in seconds, not frames. The Size [...]