MODO/MARI Games Webinar Series

BladeEvolence

It’s game on! Join our Game Jam webinar series.

This December and January, join us for an exciting series of webinars that will show you how to use MODO and MARI for game asset creation. As you probably know, MODO is our powerful, fully featured 3D content creation package, while MARI is our high-detail, physically based 3D painting solution. Used together, these two applications offer tremendous flexibility for asset creation, and we’re going to show you both how and why.

The most frustrating thing about learning a new application is, well, learning a new application! Specifically, learning the basic concepts behind how an application works. This series of webinars is intended to get you up to speed using MODO and MARI, fast. In each of the webinars, we’ll be showing a different aspect of MODO and how it can be used in game workflows.

Each webinar will also include a special guest speaker, who will give either an interview, or deliver a workflow session or mini tutorial showcasing their own work. You can get more details on the first three presentations and register to attend below. You won’t want to miss these! We’ll send you another email in January with the next set of sessions.

Webinar 1: Getting familiar with MODO

December 8, 12 noon to approximately 1:30 p.m. (PST)

This session will focus on MODO’s interface, customization and the basics of modeling. We will also be touching on exporting geometry.

Guest speaker: Tor Frick, art director at Machine Games

Find out more and register

Webinar 2: MeshFusion, sculpting and topology

December 10, 6:30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. (PST)

Discover how to dramatically improve your modeling workflow with MODO’s MeshFusion, sculpting and topology toolsets.

Guest speaker: Barry Zundel, owner of Villusion Studios

Find out more and register

Webinar 3: UVs and the Shader Tree

December 16, 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. (PST)

Find out how MODO’s UV tools and Shader Tree can make texturing your game assets a breeze.

Guest speaker: David Vega, Siggraph member and Game Jam organizer

Find out more and register

Sabotage

Whats the registration password?

Farfarer

Why is the font so big? :P

Tzur_H

Farfarer said:

Why is the font so big? :P

This ^
And also, these will be uploaded to your vimeo / youtube channel for people unable to attend, right?! (please? )

Gheromo

That font size! 

Also same as above, what is the registration password? 

BladeEvolence

I have no idea why the font went full Grey Hulk!

There shouldn't be a password required now. Please check again and let me know if you have any problems. 8)

R3D

I am now blind.

Farfarer

BladeEvolence said:

I have no idea why the font went full Grey Hulk!

There shouldn't be a password required now. Please check again and let me know if you have any problems. 8)

You used Header 2 text for all of it, that's why. Remove <h2> and </h2> from the post

Lt_Commander

I'd love to watch this series as I just bought modo, but I won't be able to make those times. Are they going to be uploaded elsewhere for watching later?

Greg_Brown

Heya,

Yes, the sessions will be recorded and posted later.  There also will be in total, 7 sessions.  The times will switch between approx. noon PST and 6:00 PM PST depending on the webinar so more people have a chance to join.  We will be posting the info for each session as it is finalized.  The 3rd webinar will be the 16th.  Still nailing down the actual time.  If you can attend, please do.  We really want to do more things like this here at The Foundry.

Also, some of the sessions will include some free assets and scripts/macros.  The guest presenters and I will definitely be showing some things that will make your lives easier...

Lt_Commander

Thanks for the heads up! Love the app, just looking forward to getting proficient with it.

BladeEvolence

Text all fixed above now. Thanks Far good buddy!

Sabotage

well...now the links not working.  Ill just watch the replay.

BladeEvolence

Sabotage said:

well...now the links not working.  Ill just watch the replay.

Links are working on our end. Are you being forwarded to a Service Unavailable page?

dzibarik

Tor Frick will be tommorow. I've registered.

MisterSande

Ahhhh... looked forward to this all week only to find out I can not attend yuk! Anyone knows when the recordings will be posted ?

Hristo Rusanov

Guys you've send me email to tell me the event is over but you did not send me email 10-20 min. before the start.

Dataday

Great event so far!

pangaea

The event was fine. But, it was really hard to hear Tor Frick and the person who did the first presentation talked really fast. Look forward to the next one on meshfusion.

Zack Maxwell

It's over? I never even got my email saying it started or where I could watch it.

BladeEvolence

Shaz_Snow said:

webinar one is over. I didnt got a message that it started but multiple reminders

I'm wondering what would be a good way of alerting everyone when the next one goes live. I'm guessing a simple reply post to this here thread how about them apples?

Zack Maxwell

BladeEvolence said:

Shaz_Snow said:

webinar one is over. I didnt got a message that it started but multiple reminders

I'm wondering what would be a good way of alerting everyone when the next one goes live. I'm guessing a simple reply post to this here thread how about them apples?

I was expecting to get some sort of email. At least one telling me where I would watch it at when it does start.

CreativeHD

Rawz said:

You can download the webinar from the landing page and play it with the Webex player, but it's 1.9Gb and a bit of slow download (on my end).

Nice, started downloading it now. Thanks!

BladeEvolence

Webinar 2: MeshFusion, sculpting and topology

Starts at 6:30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. (PST)

Discover how to dramatically improve your modeling workflow with MODO’s MeshFusion, sculpting and topology toolsets.

Guest speaker: Barry Zundel, owner of Villusion Studios

Register here:
https://thefoundryevents.webex.com/mw3000/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&amp;siteurl=thefoundryevents&amp;service=6&amp;rnd=0.6759839962134273&amp;main_url=https://thefoundryevents.webex.com/ec3000/eventcenter/event/eventAction.do?theAction=detail&confViewID=3814379064&&EMK=4832534b0000000295ae41377d187c4ae4b8356fbff5c6ce255e80abfd8a2d1ea426ed21f954ec48&&encryptTicket=SDJTSwAAAAIT6VCb-fIKloQ9Ydi6wovkF5AOvN7m75Ahy_q3YlqmIg2&&siteurl=thefoundryevents

BladeEvolence

We have the full presentation for Barry in h.264 and will post it ASAP after the webinar concludes. 8)

Greg_Brown

Heya folks.  Thanks for attending.  Registering and attending helps make it more likely that we can do more of these in the coming year.  As for webex and streaming problems in general; I couldn't agree more strongly.  We need another solution...  Currently we only scheduled the 3 for this month for this reason.  I am hoping we will be using something else for the 4 in January and am currently trying to make that happen.  These will only get better as time goes on.

We had Barry pre-record his presentation yesterday on Modo to UE4 rigging and animation.  And I'm glad he did because there was a problem and the first 10 minutes was dropped from the stream.  We also are putting the video together from Tuesday to go up on youtube/vimeo.  I'll be editing that together this weekend.  For now, we have posted barry's recording since anybody who joined the webinar didn't get to see those first 10 minutes.  All video links will be updated in the following thread and I will post the youtube and vimeo links here once they are available early next week.

http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=3&t=117878&page=1 

haiddasalami

Have you guys tried google hangouts or youtube live stream? Just wondering. The stream on my end was pretty good except tor was a bit hard to hear at times. I asked it in the questions but dont think it ever got answered or maybe stepped out but if it did sorry! Any idea when the scripting one you guys mentioned is taking place? 

repete

All of this is useless if we can't watch it !

Greg_Brown

repete said:

All of this is useless if we can't watch it !

I hear ya.  That stream has been reconstructed so you can watch it.  We'll have it up tomorrow as mentioned earlier.  We also did post Barry's presentation pre-record right after the event on Thursday to make certain you guys had that.  This is a lot of work.  I'm spending my free time out of work just wrangling all of it. 

There is some very good news though.   The next webinar will be held on Twitch.tv:
http://www.twitch.tv/thefoundryevents

Should be much higher quality and easier for everyone to hear as well. 
@haiddasalami
I think we did.  Not sure.    I'm scheduling that with the presenters this week.  Will get back to you on that by the weeks end.  The scripting session will be January 13th from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM PST.  More info later.

dzibarik

I see Tor Frick's session posted but Tor isn't there. Will his part be posted later?