The Undeclared Variable

Since settling in here at Lucasfilm Animation I have been buried in both my day job and with Fracture and TD College that personal time is next to non-existent. Currently the Blender Art magazine bundle is NOT up to date. I know this so please keep any shity emails to yourself. At Fracture we are feverishly trying to get some new demo material ready for SIGGRAPH 2010 as Kevin will be there trying to spread the word a bit more about latest additions and improvements.

A couple weeks ago I did attend a demo for Houdini 11. Not to sound completely bias but I was far from impressed with their newly implemented voronoi destruction addition. Voronoi is so over user, I am glad that at Fracture we are offering more solutions beyond that of voronoi.

For those who asked, I no longer am maintaining www.mayawiki.com, even though it was being used as an errata forum for my book a lot of time was wasted cleaning up spammer trash. It is no longer worth the effort.

Recently someone contacted my co-author and I to gripe about grammar in the comments of scripts we used, as well as technical errata. He states “As TDs, we must preserve the illusion we are technically infallible”. For anyone out there let me state that this is total garbage. There is no illusion to preserve. Infallibility would imply that our pipelines are flawless and that there is no need for dailies of simulations because if we were infallible then our sims would be perfect the first time around.

As far as grammar in the comments go, remember the material in that book was copy/pasted straight from scripts we have used in productions of various scale. I am sorry that during the height of production and just trying to get shit done on time that we didn't take the extra time (like there was any) to make sure that we utilized perfect grammar. Because its grammar that gets the shots out on time...

So here are some points:

-Our book is not perfect
-Our scripts are not perfect
-Productions are NOT perfect, ever
-EVERYONE at some point publishes broken code

So please, stop attacking us for flaws in the book. The book was about preparing you for production, which also means dealing with errors, bad grammar, and the occasional f-bomb. If you have a problem with any of that you may want to consider another line of work.