EI Users: Speak out!

[Reuben5150]

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

[harryb]

No. I have not been an astronaut …yet. But 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:

Hi Alonzo, didn’t read anything about your wanting to become an astronaut but that’s a great idea about the commercial space trip stuff. Just for fun (and because the ship is so cool) I modeled Space Ship One and White Knight. Maybe we could make an animation for Virgin Galactic? They’re going to need promo stuff, right? I’d trade my time for a free trip.

You know I’m only half kidding here. I already accepted a partial payment as a ride in an Albatross fighter jet from one of my clients. . .

Sky’s the limit (or slightly beyond).

[Martin_Kay]

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

Turns out I can upgrade for about £247 inc shipping, so I’ll do that.

Martin K.

[Guet-Apens]

Hello all,

Nice to see a new area for the EIAS community. My name is Stephane CROUZET and I use EIAS for over 9 years. I work for the company I created with my brother, Guet-Apens, and we are doing CG Images and Animations.

You can read all the history here : http://3dny.org/?p=16
See some of our work here : http://www.guet-apens.com
Note that the DemoReel is outdated, but we are currently finishing a new one.
And see our last work which is not so outdated here http://www.guet-apens.fr/voeux/gaparis_voeux06us.htm

See U.

[Vizfizz]

Phillip…

So nice to see a representative of EITG here. Welcome. Keep your eyes peeled to this forum…we’re gonna try to make your life a bit more busy.

Brian

[system]

Congrats to everyone for getting this forum started. I was busy on a project and didn’t realize EIAS was approved until today.

I go way back with EI to 1993. I married a marketing director for Apple and moved to California from the midwest and she hooked me up with EI via a project involving the architectural market. I started teaching digital media at a small college and got the school to buy a couple seats so we could use EI in our curriculum. I began using the software in a freelance forensic animation business and eventually wrote a number of articles for litigation publications as well as some industry mags like DV and Publish.

I got a sweet position doing multimedia for a joint Apple/MTV campaign at the MTV Beach House while it was in Long Island and got to do some nifty animation that was incorporated in the VJ segments.

Eventually I decided I needed to get serious and went back into forensic animation full time. I remember visiting the Electric Image offices in Pasadena and still remember fondly the great staff that treated me so hospitably.

I used EI for almost every project I was involved with. In 1999 my company worked for the defense of two marine pilots who struck a ski gondola in Italy. We rented a roomfull of G3s and had the pilots live with us for a week so we could have their input on the flight dynamics. We could have never done the project without EI. We were pleased to have the animation featured on CBS 60 minutes and it played on all the morning news shows. Luckily I stuck our web address on the footage as it generated a huge amount of interest and some good business for the company.

Version 6 has been fantastic for us. Though my core animators are Max users, they all consider me a miracle worker and can’t believe some of the turnaround times I’ve had on projects that they’ve gotten f*cked up in one way or another. EIAS has literally saved my company’s rear on numerous occasions.

Glad to be here.

Mark Johnson
Forensic Arts

[alisdair]

Hi everyone, my name is Alisdair Jones and I’m primarily a broadcast designer living in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been using EI for over 9 years and EIM is still my main modeler. I’ve been doing broadcast work for almost 16 years. For the first 10 years I worked in the graphics department at CTV ( Canada’s largest private broadcaster ) and since then, I’ve been freelance, working from home.

 Here is some of my EI work:

http://homepage.mac.com/alisdairjones/PhotoAlbum.html

 and here is my latest broadcast reel ( all the 3D in the reel is EI )

http://homepage.mac.com/alisdairjones/iMovieTheater103.html

 Thanks to all for starting this forum.

-cheers, Alisdair

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