Eric Thivierge

Worked on a spot for Florida Times Union. We used Softimage 7.01 with the emFluid3 and emRPC plug-ins for the particles. I was responsible for the particle simulations and renders. See the spot on vimeo:

Florida Times Union

Had to create a function to capture the viewport today and thought it’d be useful to post it here for others to find. See below:

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This plug-in gives animators an easy constraint workflow for picking up and putting down objects. Most useful for character animation but also works for other instances where one object picks up another.

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Just got an email from Mark Schoennagel that he posted his latest blog entry on the Area. Was super stoked to see that he gave SpeakeasyFX a good mention in the article. I was also super excited he linked to my site! Thanks to Mark for the mentions!

Mark Schoennagel’s Planet Softimage

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An artist friendly constraint work flow plug-in. This plug-in consists of 3 commands which allow the animator / user to pickup objects, put them down, and remove a pickup while animating.

The script doesn’t remove the transform keys laid down by the script on the object being picked up to ensure that no animation is lost throughout the pickup process. Simply delete the unwanted keys after you remove the pickup.

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Responsible for modeling puzzle pieces, UV mapping of pieces and animation on various shots in the spot.

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Modeled EasyMac Cup and animated variations of the cup and text objects.

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Rigged and modeled the base Cootie Catcher / Fortune Teller while at SpeakeasyFX.

You can take a look at a little bit of a Cootie Catcher Rig Demo:

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WIP Spider Rig to be released as a free rig to Softimage Community.

As per a discussion on XSIBase:

http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=11;action=display;threadid=39869;start=0#lastPost

I followed RayFigs video and setup his arm but then aslo took it a bit further to ensure that the Arm bones wouldn’t drift in rotation. Take a look at the attached file.

NoodleArm.emdl

Eric T.