Since Autodesk launched the streaming masterclasses earlier this week I have been swamped with people interested in testing Fracture. I have been trying to keep my inbox organized and respond accordingly. If you have contacted us for testing and have not heard back yet then I screwed up so please send me another message.

Just to remind people once again:

• Our cross platform solver is still not ready, so Windows testing only
• We do require you to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
  

Autodesk has launched the streaming masterclasses. It would have been much cooler to have been at SIGGRAPH in person for this. There are many other classes that I encourage you to view. It should all be very informative. Registration is required at The Area before viewing.

Fracture Masterclass

Finally someone has done a review, and it is actually good!

"Being somewhere between intermediate and advanced, I‘ll happily admit to not knowing everything about my weapon of choice, I sometimes find that books on areas of CGI, specifically those in relation to scripting, are either too condescending or too high handed. Thankfully for everyone, Professional MEL Solutions for Production is neither."

Review at 3D World

Preview of one of the upcoming demos for the Autodesk Masterclass.

Crack Paint is a new feature of Fracture that allows a user to define the way a mesh fractures via black-and-white imagery, either by painting with artisan or importing a pre-made file. The following demo is made from a non-uniformly scaled cube with the image below being applied to it. Fracture does the rest...

Here is a handful of videos used for our CG Overdrive masterclass on Fracture. Enjoy!

According to Kevin it was mostly a success. I guess a majority of the people there were teenagers and had little interest in the science and methodology behind Fracture. However many professional contacts have been made and that was I was really hoping for.

Now to prepare for the online masterclass supposedly to be hosted by Autodesk....

This is the final weekend before CGO. All that is left is rendering teaser footage. This has not been as smooth as would like. Nothing like trying to make deadlines with pre-alpha software bugs showing themselves and the worst possible moment. Ahh the life of production...

Some previews of Fracture renders I am preparing for CG Overdrive.

With CG Overdrive right around the corner I can't help but look at the render logs and the masterclass draft and feel a bit dizzy. Making progress and we should be good, but it is going to be very very close.

And this is supposed to be my break from college...