EI Users: Speak out!

#22

Hello, my name is Steve Wilkinson. I started with EI back right around the transition from 2.75 to 2.8 (had 2.75 for a few weeks before I got my 2.8).

I had dabbled with 3D a bit on and off back since the Atari ST (as Brian made me aware of again), but really started doing actual work in it with EI while working with an industrial design firm.

I went on to work for an advertising firm for a brief time until they went out of business. I now work in IS/IT full time (which is what my training / schooling is really in), but have kept 3D as a hobby. I still do a ‘job’ now and then, with my most recent being work on a series destined for PBS on India. I hope to keep always keep 3D at some level of hobby status and do some work now and then with it. I just enjoy it too much to drop out of it.

My time has been really stretched for the last year, as in addition to working full time +, I am also a full time student. Pretty much any time left just has to be family time (no kids yet) and hopefully a bit of sleep in there somewhere.

But, congrats to EI users everywhere on this forum. I’ll hope to participate here and there as I can. Yikes… I just noticed that Brian linked my tutorial pages up. It’s cool, though they are REALLY REALLY old. LOL (My whole site never did get ‘finished’, I really need to change that ‘coming soon’ graphic… a couple years into it now).

-Steve

:arteest:

#23

Hey Steve,

You ought to get a kick out of this. Cad3D is considered Max’s grandfather. :slight_smile: Check out the links. Its a great history lesson in the 3D arts. I loved the Atari. Great machine.

http://www.asterius.com/atari/cad3d

#24

Hello everyone
I’m Jedt Sittidumrong from Thailand. User and also reseller of EIAS since 5.0. Happy with EIAS and happy with you guys in every communities. I’m willing to help as much as I can.

#25

ha, that’s really interesting - here the same, i was an atari ST fan, too. there was also a dutch program called ARKEY which was able to do ‘complex’ 3d hidden line renderings :slight_smile:

cheers

markus

#26

Hi, Brian, congrats for this new forum.
My name is Felix Albert and a EiAS user since the transition from 2.75. I loved the reviews of Eias in MacWorld back then, and when the moment was right i jumped in, and never leave. I have a little design and advertising company and use EiAS for animatiosn and complement for ilustrations. Always i try to do short movies with the app, but no time enough and, in my web site i have an spetial seccion for the intents… maybe someday :rolleyes:

Great forum indeed. Thanks

FelixCat

#27

Hi,

I’m Tomas Egger, a Visual FX Director in Brazil…
http://www.electro303.com/electro303/05-bench-Art/articles/002-TomasEgger/Tomas_Egger-US.html
I’m a EIAS huge fan.
and my goal is always push EIAS to the limits.
;))

Thanksss

Tomas Egger

#28

Hi! I work as a graphic designer at an Aerospace company. I started my career as an illustrator, but the company changed job classifications about 10 years ago.

I’ve been doing visualization animations using EIAS since 2000 when we got 2.9. I use it for scenario illustrations. I also use it to create interesting textural effects for graphic design and multimedia.

The most unusual application I’ve had for EIAS was animating a turntable demo an award I designed using Silo. The demo was used for proofing the award design with my internal customer and for communication with the vendor that produced the award. The award was one of those laser-etched leaded crystal glass objects. The vendor used my Silo model to etch the 26 awards created for the project.

#29

Welcome Will.

#30

Hello Everyone,

I am Phil Martin with EITG, Sales/Shipping/Customer Service. I know so many of you through orders and emails but I have learned so much more about all of you reading these posts. I find it all fascinating. I have been with EITG since '99 in Pasadena, then Santa Ana, then San Clemente and now San Antonio. I personally don’t use the software but I am totally amazed at what you all can do with this software. So much talent.
My congratulations to Brian for getting this forum started and all of his hard work in maintaining this forum.
I am sure I will be communicating with all of you in the future…I know I do “spam” you with emails.
Best of Life to you all through this new year.
Phil

#31

My name is Alonzo Von Threet. I’m an artist. I live in Buffalo, NY.

I moved from Buffalo to NYC 15 years ago with a paintbrush and a rag to become an artist. I ran into EIAS, and I’m not sure what happened next but all I remember is, teaching in a few colleges, being a CG specialist for a fortune five, running a business on broadway, TV shows, commercials, magazine covers, industrial design, architecture, music videos, nice suits, pretty ladies and fat checks. :slight_smile:

Then I got on a furry train with wings and wound up back in Buffalo. Must have been a bad chicken wing or I fell asleep on the subway reading an EI manual…maybe I just dreamed it all and I’m really just hobbyist/part freelancer in Buffalo hoping to do film shorts with 3D one day? Well right now I’m teaching EIAS to rollover and bark minus the dog bites it’s working GREAT.

Heel boy, Heel!

I love the new FBX import for Maya/MotionBuilder intergration (MA/B) After Effects support and endless possibilities.

For many years EIAS was the one and only professional 3D app on the mac. I’ve beta tested EIAS for a few years now. It’s simple and fast and you can get great things done.

http://homepage.mac.com/avtpro5/iMovieTheater37.html

http://homepage.mac.com/avtpro5/iMovieTheater7.html

http://homepage.mac.com/compusa9/iMovieTheater5.html

http://homepage.mac.com/avtpro5

http://homepage.mac.com/compusa9/FileSharing9.html

http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/community/gallery_characters.html

Glad to see EI being exposed for Hollywoods best kept secret.

I want to help create a better world to live in.

#32

Hi Everybody,

I’ve been an EIAS user since 1997 or so. All of my demo reel’s animations and a few large illustrations were all made with EI. For anyone with QuickTime 6.5 or higher, here’s the URL to my demo reel:

Harry’s Demo Reel

The first minute is interactive media using LiveStage and Flash but the other two minutes are animations and illustrations. I hope you enjoy it! Feel free to visit my website too:

Harry’s website

I’m amazed at all the great work in this forum!

#33

Ahh ha ha, thats great Alonzo :slight_smile:

And you still have the coolest name.

Reuben

#34

I have been an EIAS user for ten years and have been surprised to find how few in the 3D community even know about it. Well thanks to this forum and those who maintain it, I am finally starying to feel like I am no longer sitting at the kid’s table at the 3D banquet. For those of us who just can’t get enough of those flying logo reels, mine is here: http://homepage.mac.com/b_dismukes/iMovieTheater5.html There are a few other examples of EI there, one of which is a car commercial for which I apologize. It’s not my intent to further pollute the airwaves, but a guy’s gotta eat.

#35

No problem Brad…you’re welcomed here. Show your stuff!

#36

Your work is wonderful! And there’s so much of it. So, have you ever been an astronaut? I think that’s the only thing I couldn’t find on your bio :wink:

#37

No. I have not been an astronaut …yet. But :slight_smile: you never know, I hear they are commercializing Space Trips. I would have to be a extreme million to go right now tho.
But I’m not going to rule that out either.

Funny!! You saw that? I must have written that in one of the ReadyRigs documents. Yes, guilty. I’m notorius for making publication as an opportunity to express my soul LOL.

Thanks so much for the compliment. I appreciate it.

Just had to add, I was a Major Matt Mason kid. (Not that Matt) If know who he is, you will understand why I had it out to be the kid in space. I feel 3D in EI is a very likely alternative. I can space travel, without a million dollar ticket and it’s a lot less likely I’ll get sliced up by some space alien I created :wavey: :thumbsup:

#38

Thanks Rueben. I hear that a lot about my name.It’s my real name on my birth certificate. I think my parents have more imagination than I do. They deny it but I think they wanted me to be an artist. :arteest: Once, a guy I barely knew told me he stole my name and went around introducing himself as Alonzo Von Threet at bars to impress girls. (LOL) So, he bought me a drink as conpensation.:beer:
Alonzo is Nobleman, Von= of, Threet is a clearing in the forest. 1-2-3-T (Three-T) like the number. Nobleman of the clearing in the forest.

Brad I absolutely LOVED YOUR Demo. Talk about outer space. What a celestrial experience watching it. Very Clean and Smooth.

I totally DIG the music. Very nice professional Porfolio. The opening scene was very artsy and creative. Composition was great. You don’t see stuff that clean that looks that good anymore. This is the kind of stuff that gets me in the groove to work.

:thumbsup: :bowdown:

#39

Hey There fellow EI Users.

I’ve been working with EI since version 1.5 when I was introduced to it in Hollywood along with Form Z. Back then I created Movie Trailer titles, like Mission: Impossible, for film, and this was in 1995-1998 on the first PowerPC’s! It was the fastest rendering system I had seen then and it still is today.

I went on my own 8 years ago and I have been cranking out all kinds of work since. I’ve been fortunate enough to have found a niche in Infomercials and Multi-screen shows, as well as creating Large Format Stereoscopic 3D shows and HD content.

You can see a retrospective of my work at my website http://www.sgscreative.com . All of the really wide screen shots in my demo reel are three screen or more shows projected on 20’ X 30’ screens. There is no way I could have created all of the work I have over the years at the sizes I have in the time frames I did with any other 3D program.

BTW, I just moved back to my wife’s home town of Houston, TX about a month and a half ago. I usually deliver all of my work over the internet from my home office!

It’s great to see EI users in this forum. Everyone’s work looks great!

Thanks Brian for starting this for us!!!

#40

Its nice to see EI on CGtalk, and hello Rueben from the UK. I always look at the forums, but don’t post much- not too keen on that ‘other’ largely unmoderated forum…
I’m largely ‘retired’ now having been in some branch or other of visual media for over 40 years, mostly as a photographer. I bought EI originally for £1500 when it was at 2.7 as a ‘special offer’. This was to access some rendering oomph out of mesh constructed in formZ. When c4d reared its cheap and cheerful head I largely jumped ship to it, mostly for being able to raytrace, and still output huge files.

EI, through 2.8 to the early Universe really looked as if it was heading for the rocks… Meanwhile c4d, although adding this and that feature was no longer that cheap and was still only quite cheerful. I’m at 8.5 with c4d, and although there are a few useful additions in the latest 9.5, its still essentially the same program with its dubiously cheap and cheerful rendering and mesh handling. Ok, I know that Hypernurbs are good, especially with the Ngons available now. Basically, in c4d, nothing looks quite right. Bump maps look awful compared to EI. C4d is largely the product of software engineers and it shows.

As I no longer work on a Mac I have downloaded the DVDGarage demo of the cutback Universe to see how it runs on a PC. I remember how awful Universe ran compared to 2.9, (on the Mac) and see that EI have claimed to have rewritten the openGL implementation. How does EI run now? It used to be a real doddle working in 2.9. I’m really not inclined to waste money upgrading to the latest c4d and currently I’m thinking of buying back in to EI on the PC, especially as the app is really competitively priced now. Is the software package for both platforms- I can’t figure out from their site what’s what.

Martin K

#41

Hi, i’m pretty sure you get Mac and PC versions on the disk, also the new open GL performance is way beyond the 3D toolkit or EI v3 + versions.

If you are thinking of buying i’d really recommend the v6.5 demo, the program has improved so much in recent years.

BTW, I run EI exclusively on the PC and its pretty solid.

Reuben