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Leonard
04-29-2008, 07:00 AM
http://www.itsartmag.com/features/timborgmann/shape69c.jpg (http://www.itsartmag.com/features/timborgmann/TimBorgmann-P1.html)



Hi all,

It's Art magazine has posted an interview with XSI artist Tim Borgmann. Check it out. :)

>> Interview with Tim Borgmann << (http://www.itsartmag.com/features/timborgmann/TimBorgmann-P1.html)

Tim originally started with traditional painting and illustration back in the end of the eighties. While studying Communication design at the begining of the ninties he gots his first computer (a 486) and a tool called pov ray. While It tooks hours to render a small image, and there was no modeler and no interface, he was totally blown away from the fact you can create something like a photo of a non existing scene. Since this first shock, Tim focuses is artwork on light and materials and play with them in a very enhanced, and creative way. But he also has invented an art who captures time and the imagination, sowhere between a microscopic world where a new art tries to developp its own expression.

Best,

Leo

yayas
04-29-2008, 10:36 AM
I think this guy deserves a chance to create XSI splash screen. Pixologic hired Meats Meier to do so for ZBrush.

wurp
04-29-2008, 12:13 PM
best Idea I've heard all week :)

it would be great if that guy could come up with a nice splash-screen, his style would fit perfectly.

something like this:
http://www.itsartmag.com/features/timborgmann/fragment_012802c.jpg

its simply beautiful.


I think this guy deserves a chance to create XSI splash screen. Pixologic hired Meats Meier to do so for ZBrush.

doktor
04-29-2008, 12:28 PM
Loved the Splash Screen in 4 and 5.... not too impresed with the hoody guy... but its the software updates like Motor and Delta ref that matters the most... But splendid idea...

3DDave
04-29-2008, 08:05 PM
Loved the Splash Screen in 4 and 5.... not too impresed with the hoody guy...

100% agree, I have no clue why they placed a skateboard dude on the front package of a highend animation program.

3dtutorial
04-29-2008, 08:25 PM
100% agree, I have no clue why they placed a skateboard dude on the front package of a highend animation program.


Really?

It's because that's what the majority of the userbase looks like - take a good look round SIGGRAPH sometime :-)

Still I have to agree, it seems that the hoodie guy is almost universally hated by the majority of XSI users and as such can only be judged as a failure.

Sorry marketing dept :-)

J

norvman
05-01-2008, 10:42 PM
Yes I think even all the hoody guys can aprecheate a little class out of their tools apperarance....

How about if Borgmann did special XSI cover piece entitled ... "hooded guy" ?



http://http://www.itsartmag.com/features/timborgmann/shape71b.jpg

yayas
05-04-2008, 01:03 AM
The fact that the hoodie guy actually isn't bad at all. I'm really sorry for 'him' for getting a lot of sticks he doesn't deserve. It can be (much) better, though.

Concerning the splash, the bar is already high for Softimage. I think the hoodie is just a victim of previous elegant ones. How about moving the hoodie scene to "XSI_SAMPLE_SCENES" while we get the new one? It virtually hasn't been updated sice version 2. Mmm... am I asking too much?