Hello to my fellow Houdini users. My apologies for being absent from SESI forum. I have been extremely nose-into screen sence coming back from Taiwan, where I worked with Diginoise FX. Winning the Challenge Contest (best model category) was great. I am currently working as animator/TD at EyeballNYC. One of the top 10 advertising design and effects shops in Manhattan. I started in August (right after SIGG03) and have sence worked on multiple spots (all in HD). Though the shop is MAX based, I have used Houdini to suppourt MAX pipeline, and XSI pipeline in near future. I worked with MAX before at previous employer so I found it easy to convert my Houdini techniques into MAX.
As I stated to SESI before. I consider the model of centaur I did for Challenge, as property of entire Houdini community. It is free to anyone to use as they wish, as long as its not for commercial porpouses. Please contact SESI to get it. Its face and head are fully rigged and body is partially rigged. I want to collaborate with a Houdini savvy animator to bring this creature to life. If anyone wishes to attempt this CA (as a thesis project for example), you contact me at daverindner@yahoo.com or at my work e-mail which can be gleaned from studio's site.
Dave Rindner
Animator/TD
EyeballNYC ( www.eyeballnyc.com )