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		<title>Speaking at Multi-Mania 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there!
Been a while since my last decent post with the excuse of being crazy busy over the last few months (I know it&#8217;s not an excuse at all:) but anyway, news! I just arrived in lovely Flanders on my way from London to Sydney where I will start in June working at Animal Logic.
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		<title>Using Adobe Flash inside Softimage XSI</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/using-adobe-flash-inside-softimage-xsi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As requested a few times, in this post I will try to explain how to set up a connection between Softimage XSI and Adobe Flash. I came to this idea when I was writing a procedural feather tool for Softimage XSI and wanted some more dynamic interface to control the feather system. To understand this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=93&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finished Master Course Bournemouth</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/finished-master-course-bournemouth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished my Master Course in Bournemouth which wrapped up the end of August. It was a highly intense but super interesting year where I got to know some talented cg folks which I won&#8217;t forget quickly. Time for a quick trip home and a short break after which a new episode will start working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=122&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wing Feather Tool Version II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working further on the wing feather tool for xsi, I decided to rewrite the tool partly and enhance it in terms of appraoch and usability. The next version of the tool introduces a guide feather approach to control the feather behaviour. It is still procedural in terms of generating your feathers and now gives you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=75&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>XSI wing feather tool</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/xsi-proto-wing-feather-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New version:
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Lately I was looking at rigging feathers on a wing in XSI and I decided to develop a small prototype tool for dealing with this.
Basically it started out as a procedural feather system which enables you to draw out a curve and attach it to your bone system (or extract from a mesh) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=57&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on a Massive Crowd Simulation Pipeline</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/notes-on-a-massive-crowd-simulation-pipeline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AS promised, In this post I will talk about how to use Massive Crowd Simulation software in a project pipeline based upon the experience I built up doing the Path To War group project where I had to solve several crowd shots. I will not go in depth into how massive works, agent brain building or explain every step I took in detail. Rather I will pick out some specific issues and techniques I came along using the tool. This document assumes you know what Massive is, what it does and its internal workflow...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=31&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NCCA Symposium &#8211; Renderman Presentation</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/ncca-symposium-renderman-research-presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 11:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the people that attended my talk at the NCCA symposium and anyone that is interested, here is my presentation together with some scenes, shaders and scripts I&#8217;ve talked about. It concerns a global overview over renderman rendering.
Presentation pdf
Additional material
Jo
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		<title>Won NCCA Rob Edwards Memorial Cup 2008</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/won-ncca-rob-edwards-memorial-cup-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worth mentioning, last Saturday we won the annual NCCA soccer tournament with our MA 3D Computer Animation team! The tournament contained 12 teams representing either industry companies and CG courses. It was a very nice day with some more then heroic games and a beautiful turn out for us in the end. The winning team:

The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=25&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FMX 2008</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/fmx-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from a week of sunny Stuttgart (aka the city where every car is a Porsche, Mercedes or BMW) where I attended the FMX 2008 conference on animation, effects and games together with some of my coursemates.

left to right: Pedram, Me, Dapeng
We had a great time over there with lots of interesting lectures, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=22&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pixar Renderman</title>
		<link>http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/renderman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 07:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Plaete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I have access to Pixar Renderman here at my university I choose to aim my third term research project towards this industry standard renderer to get more familiar and confident with it. I am looking at the whole package going from the structure of RIB archives to the renderman shading language and SLIM to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joplaete.wordpress.com&blog=742475&post=20&subd=joplaete&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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