CG Academy Released Third DVD in Pflow Fundamentals Series

[PiXeL_MoNKeY]

Looks good Chris but your video links on the information page are broken. On things for the example DVD it would be nice to see how to achieve effects that may be available in 3rd party tools with the tools in standard pflow (ie fracturing, disassemble and reassemble, etc). I am not trying to take business from the plugin developers. I just would like to know how to achieve these effects without 3rd party tools as they are not always available on every job. But then again those requests would probably be better addressed with a Master Pflow DVD set, are any of these planned?

Thanks,
-Eric

[Chris Thomas]

Hi , well what your suggesting could be an idea, but some of those are extremely hard to achice out of the box, i.e. most of it would require a lot of Maxscript coding. To be honest, the example you give beyong a simple level are pretty hard core to do by any method. You can do them in script, but to be honest in a production envirnment it a plugin solution for such a thing existed, Id use that instead.

Keep a beady ehe on Orbaz and their Pflow Tools boxed sets, I understand great things will be comming from them in the near future, Oleg really should still be a Discreet from our point of view as his new tools would become aprt of the core product. but maybe/hopefully he's making more money by breaking off on his own.

Masters DVD, yes indeed, I actually plan to go stright from DVD5 of the Fundamentals series and into DVD1 of the Intermediate and advanced series. I'll have to see how I scope those DVDs out, its a fine line between intermediate and advanced Pflow usage. Where is the line for you, what defines "advanced" usage.

No offense to Allan McKay but a potential customer of one of his DVDs said to me on the phone the other day that he felt his (Allan's) DVDs were a little overpriced as the info on them was not what he considered "that advanced" (his words,, not mine). Personally I think he as just fishing for a discount (he was a student). But then pretty much all of the people that have bought Allans DVDs loved them and though they were worth the asking price and no complaints above the level of the knowledge contained.

So, what in Pflow is intermediate, what is advanced. If you use ANY scripting in a flow, is it advanced? For the advanced series I have several ideas and at some point Im also going to have to consider doing DVDs that use the Orbaz Pflow Tools boxed sets tools. There is a great deal of power in those plugins and I for one would consider them to be an esential part of any serious Pflow professionals toolkit, indeed right now I'm doing a job that uses Pflow Tools #1's Group Select and Group Split Ops/tests.

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