Meetings Archive Thursday, January 27th, 2005 Thanks to our sponsors Avid/Softimage, Jellyfish Pictures and ERA. Event Summary Presentations by Passion Pictures, Kim Aldis and The Mill. Mark Wilson, Stuart Hall and Neil Riley showed how Passion Pictures created the spot for "Domestos". Prior to that they had a LightWave/Messiah pipeline which was converted to XSI. They used Point Oven, developed by Mark, to transfer the model from Lightwave to XSI. The different steps of rigging, animation, rendering, texture mappig and compositing were shown and explained. Kim Aldis of CG Soup talked about his most recent film he worked on, directed by Neil Jordan. He showed a detailed rigging of the bird that was used for the production and all the controls he created for it. Jan Walter and Jordi Bares of The Mill presented XtoR, a custom developed Pipeline for XSI to Renderman (XtorR). The user previews scenes with the render region and mental ray, then the shaders are converted to Renderman. They couldn't mention any details about the availaibilty of this plugin, but mentioned that probably Softimage will obtain it. Passion Pictures - Latest Advert for Domestos Markel Stefan Andersson and Nikos Gatos Peder Kallin and Darren Cullis A rather stressed looking Matt Morris Jordi Bares (left) Raffaele "The Jaco" Fragapane Ismini Sigala and Ola Madsen Denis-Jose Francois and Robin Emerson Alexei Godek Adrian Wyer Larry Ruppel applying to replace Robert East Axel Akesson, Darren, 'stoph Will Rockall of Jellyfish Pictures (left) Tom Greuelsberg and Alan Jones Christoph Schinko Preparing for the event. People on the street always wonder...what kind of party this must be...."it's for the meeting of the anonymous alcoholics..."