author
Sam
Weisbard
Chicago-based Studio/Maya consultant for training and production work
sweisbard@attbi.com
special
thanks to
Design Engine
for hosting these pages.
Chicago area user group past events.
08.22.01
Thursday/Friday,
September 7/8, 2000. hosts - SGI Chicago/William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising
& Design, Milwaukee
hosted a day of Maya and Studio demonstrations.
Terry Stoeger showed 3D painting in Maya, Subdivision Surfaces, and other
cool new technologies. Sam Weisbard showed Spider and Studio tricks.
Tuesday,
September 14, 1999. hosts - Gregg and Doug Montgomery, Montgomery Design
showed off their new space. Ted Woerner of Access3D
detailed his design and visualization services, showing images and explaining
rendering issues. Dave Blomme outlined shader techniques for rendering
car exteriors.
Wednesday,
June 23, 1999. hosts - Alias|Wavefront
surfacing expert Barry Kimball showed workflow technique when creating
Class A math data, how to use Evalviewer with Surface Studio, and ways
to get useful information from highlight and curvature plots, illustrating
the differences between Direct and Curve Based Modeling.
Thursday,
sometime in fall 1998. hosts - Dave Blomme, Carl Hagele, and Sam Weisbard,
Case
showed Alias Studio Version 9 and the new software, Surf Studio. This
worked well with the 3D digitizing demo courtesy Steinbichler Optical
Technologies; closed with Chris Landreth's "Bingo".
Tuesday,
May 26th 1998. hosts - Joe and the gang at the University of Illinois
at Chicago's EVL
showed a virtual museum with hypersculpture that contorted and made music
as one interacted with it.
Thursday,
September 25th 1997. hosts - Andrius Stankus and Paul Wilson, Colorimage
demonstrated particle replace plugin and the ATOR Alias-to-Renderman translator.
Thursday,
July 31st 1997. host - Diego Velasco, Cutters
demonstrated animation techniques, emphasizing character animation; hierarchical
animation and paths, expressions, skeletal animation with deforms and
IK handles dynamics, some shapeshifting.
Thursday,
May 29th 1997. hosts - Sam Weisbard and Carl Hagele, Case
Art Lee of Simon Marketing presented his technique in creating a walking
IK human skeleton and Sam Weisbard showed off Case's magnificent Design
Center.