<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hi, Developers!</span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm Jinseok Park, responsable in 3d department of EDI, a visual FX company based in Milano (Italy).</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have been this year's Blender conference, and it was exciting experience for me.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I would like to thank so much for developers and Blender foundation for your fantastic software.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In these one and half years, we tested Blender as a main and generic 3d software in our pipeline.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We also use other software, like Maya for generic use and Houdini for FX. And we have nuke in compositing pipeline.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As we are a small-medium sized VFX studio, we didn't want make too complicated and expensive pipeline like big studios.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So we decided to use Blender, because we noticed that Blender makes fantastic results and have so many interesting features.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And here is our one and half year's results:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">this is a specific Blender's works reel:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT75_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT404_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="https://www.effettidigitali.it/video/2015_reel_blender_amsterdam.mp4" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">https://www.effettidigitali.it/video/2015_reel_blender_amsterdam.mp4</a></span></span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(all 3d stuffs are rendered in Blender(cycles) and some 3d stuffs are entirely done in Blender)<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and here is our Generic reel:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT76_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT405_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://www.effettidigitali.it/cms/204-elenco-showreel/1637-showreel-2015" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://www.effettidigitali.it/cms/204-elenco-showreel/1637-showreel-2015</a></span></span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In our tests, Blender proved to be as great as other expensive commercial software and I believe that it could be a strong competitor in professional use in visual FX industry with some improvements.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For some reasons I couldn't be in Blender Developers Q&A in <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT77_com_zimbra_date" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span>, but I'm willing to express our main need to integrate Blender in our pipeline: Alembic.</div><h1 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 824px; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: initial;"><font size="3"><br></font></h1><h1 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 824px; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: initial;"><font size="3"><br></font></h1><h1 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 824px; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: initial;"><font size="3"><br></font></h1><h1 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 824px; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: initial;"><font size="3"><br></font></h1><h1 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 824px; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: initial;"><br></h1><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alembic support is our first priority, because we need to communicate to other 3d and compositing software like Houdini, Maya and Nuke. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I think Alembic is the best format to exchange data between 3d or 2d software because it is very stable, light, hightly compatible and it is opensource too!</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And I really want to ask you when can we have official Alembic support. <br>I know it is work in progress on your task list, But <b>we may contribute to accelerate this task to be completed in the near future. Please let me know how can we get involved.</b><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br><br>Then there is a short list of features that we need, with lower priority:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1. Improvements import/export functions</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There are some bugs importing and exporting formats. for examples, when import fbx with camera animation from nuke, the animation starts from frame 2 not 1.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. More detailed render pass options <br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Actually it is only on and off. If we have more options will be better. More controls Ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing on and off for object and material id ecc....</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3. Override everything based on render layer</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is fantastic Maya's function, override every parameters based on render layer. for example, material override specific object, render sampling override ecc..</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4. Outliner improvement</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Outliner is a little bit uncomfortable to manage objects. selection, deleting, grouping is not so much intuitive.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5. Material editor</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overlooking all materials in a specific window will be better to manage materials.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6. Light linking features in Cycles.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Will be fantastic for lighting.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">7. Multi objects controls</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In Blender it is not to easy controlling massive objects for detailed options, for examples controlling ray visibility for tons of objects was impossible for us(maybe it is).</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maya have spread sheet of almost all parameters for all selected object. if Blender have that kind of window, will be nice.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In any way, Blender is a very nice tool for our purpose, and we will continue work with it.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So, many thanks again to developers and the foundation.<br>I'm looking forward to see new blender 2.8 as soon as possible ;)</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bye!</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jinseok Park.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani<br><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT407_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.effettidigitali.it/" style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">www.effettidigitali.it</a></span><br></div></div></body></html>