CGNetworks.com Announcement

[Soulstorm]

this partnership with gnomon sounds interesting. so is cgnetworks gonna provide us with free tutorials because of this partnership or will you still have to pay for it all?

[Leonard]

Originally posted by Soulstorm
this partnership with gnomon sounds interesting. so is cgnetworks gonna provide us with free tutorials because of this partnership or will you still have to pay for it all?

The stuff to run on CGNetworks is intended to be free. We need to review the situation in case it get's too popular where bandwidth becomes an issue - however, the intention is to provide the tutes and co-brand CGNetworks and Gnomon.

Gnomon Online will always remain as a pay site.

Hope that clarifies it.

Leonard

[jason-slab]

nice webpage:thumbsup:, hmmm what is my homepage gonna be set to, hmmm tough one

|jason

[Milho]

Originally posted by Leonard
...the situation in case it get's too popular where bandwidth becomes an issue...

No problem, force every member to buy a cg-string and you'll have enough money for more bandwidth ;)

Now seriuos: These are great news! You can be proud of what you did and will do!

Big Cheers, CGNetwork team
:beer:

[show]

Brilliant news Leo, I love the way things keep getting better and better around here.
Keep up the hard work, its very much appreciated.

[Airflow]

Im more interested in ballistic..... you guys gotta start a collborative cg comic in the mold of heavy metal.... short anthologies.... hehe you got all the artists you need on this boadr all you need is writers.. :)

[CGmonkey]

This is awesome.. *gets chills down my spine*

[Hexodam]

great job yet again from the cgnetworks people :D

a cg related comic, I reeealy like that idea, then I could read about the jokes none of my friends understands :D

[MadDuke]

Great website! I was hopeing that you would make a central cgNetworks website that would tie together all of the cg* sites that you have. Great work.

[tyryan]

Ive been checking out CGnetworks for a good portion of the morning and I can say that I love it!

I generally go to cgchannel.com for cg news but I think this may be my new source.

Thank you:)

[sigma]

very nice work. love the new colour scheme ;)
looking forward to seeing the gallery catagories restored.

Congratulations to all those involved! You guys are doing a fantastic service.

[Neil]

It's kinda funny to look back and when the site changed format and colors and every time people swore that they hated it and were never gonna come back... well... that never happened.

[Icarus]

Once all the talk and hype goes away, its an awsome thing that has happened, hopefully this will allow for more greater things to happen, for both professional and student / newbie alike

good luck to all, and lets keep this going,

TyR-

[Joel_Longie]

I have to admit that you guys have really done a good job at expanding and improving your web sites over the last year. I also really like the more professional tone that has developed here recently. Good work!

[HapZungLam]

so confusing :shrug:

isn't that there has no 3dfestival.com anymore but cgnetworks.com?

[lildragon]

Originally posted by HapZungLam
so confusing :shrug:

isn't that there has no 3dfestival.com anymore but cgnetworks.com?

Read the about page to find out the answer but bascially

3dfestival is an event, much like siggraph, and we only really push this site around the event time. CGNetworks is a webzine which 3DFestival was never meant to be, but it was in our blood to continue bringing content so we did :) CGNetworks basically frees us from that restriction of having everything under an event website but we co-organize 3DFestival when that time comes (most likely beginning of 2004 we'll push the site again).

And it's really cool you guys like the site!

-lild

[wmendez]

Leonard, Tito, Ali, Mark and crew you guys are doing a fantastic job in for the CG community and I commend you all!

:beer:

[SheepFactory]

Glad you guys like it :beer:

[AnimBot]

Man I can't believe all the changes that this site has gone through since I joined. The seperation from cgchannel, the increase in members, the 3d awards. It's amazing you guys have done such a fantastic job since this all started.

[BonoMan]

excellent...man I love all these resources at my fingertips! very empowering....

but why do the designs of cgtalk always seem similar to the designs of cgchannel? is there a shared connection (as the poster above me mentions)...I'm a bit new to cgtalk so I'm not sure. Thanks again for all the stuff!

[fixxorion]

This is great news! I'm very glad that 3dbuzz has had such an excellent impact on the 3d industry that even such people as Gnomon would start doing free training. Thank you 3dbuzz and cgtalk...great move!

fixxorion

[erilaz]

Fantastic. I'm so glad that this has progressed so far. I guess all those Expose copies paid off huh?:D

I really hope you guys never get sick of doing this!

[sigma]

It is amazing when you think about how far they have come. Ive been here almost since the beginning, through all the CGC drama and server troubles, Im just amazed by these improvments. CG Networks and the people behind it are honestly some of the nicest, most down to earth individuals out there.

Heres to the future and continued success. :beer:

[PixelShader]

Originally posted by BonoMan
but why do the designs of cgtalk always seem similar to the designs of cgchannel? is there a shared connection (as the poster above me mentions)...I'm a bit new to cgtalk so I'm not sure. Thanks again for all the stuff!

If you read Leonard's initial post, and do a search, the reason it looks similar is because the CGNetworks crew are all the original editorial and development team for CG Channel. These guys MADE CG Channel. One year ago, they left after some dispute (which is all past now I gather), and the content/goodness on CG Channel simply went downhill. They then went on to do all sorts of great things like the 3D Awards and 3D Festival. Now they're BACK with CGNetworks. With this partnership with Gnomon, EXPOSÉ and more, it's gonna be a ride!

Look at the people these guys hang out with!
http://www.cgnetworks.com/about_scrapbook.php

:thumbsup: Bravo!

Geoff

[Invader Zim]

Cool ! A new site to go check everyday :)
All of you guys deserve a round of beers :beer: Keep up the great work !! :thumbsup:

PS-> I'm not sure if I remember correctly, was CgChannel created in Montreal ??

[dbach]

I am wondering about the finacial ideas behind the EXPOSE book as well as future financial ventures. Is the network a nonprofit idea or is the long term goal to have it make money?

I hope this post fits this thread, and I hope I have made my question clear enough.

Out,
Don

[Leonard]

dbach - The entire venture of CGNetworks and Ballistic is to provide a quality service for the CG industry. The hard fact is that we can't do that without finance. Banner advertising doesn't sell and do not cover costs. However, books do sell and all parties win: customers get a quality product, and we can continue running everything. We will always endeavour to give everyone good value. CGTalk will remain free, and the news/content on CGNetworks too.

Invader Zim - The five of us that left are from all over: Australia, Toronto, San Francisco.

Best,

L.

[dbach]

Thank you for your response, and thank you for answering my question. Of course you are right about add space and let me say that it seems to me that your sollution to the problem seems to be very elegent.

-Don

[Invader Zim]

Thanks for you answer Leonard.
It nice to read that CGTalk and CGNetwork will remain free - for a long time... I hope for all of us CGPeople (humm... If we were a country, what would we be called ?!? - CGNetworkers, CGTalkers, CGNetTalkworkers...)
Sorry 'bout that - most go to bed :eek:

[s-rajesh78]

:beer: its a great news that Gnomon and CG networks partnership,
It great have a book of Expose, i've ordered for one.Its been a great effort by u guys to bring this book to print with good quality.

[Astaroth.NL]

just new here but luv you guys allready, you deserve every penny that you get for this well performed plan. I would really love to see a interview with you guys at ballistic, like how and why you started and how it got like this

anyways thumbs up! :thumbsup:

[Cube6]

CGNetworks looks good... really good :D

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