Some VFX studios in London are only taking on people with Modo skills in their repertoire. I guess the way The Foundry has now dominated the compositing world with Nuke they are now on the hunt for 3D software domination. Maybe Autodesk will buy it out and crash it into a cliff like XSI :(
If you own a modo license, Brad Peebs, also known as B-Rad, drops sneaks into special subforum (visible to license holders) on the foundry site. One of the videos he showed was cage baking and then an animated gif with vertex normals being moved around with a transform widget, also painted in a direction with a type of…
I highly doubt the foundry would let AD near modo, considering they only just got it, and considering what AD have done with Soft. I've seen people on here say that modo seems more geared towards VFX lately, and seems to be veering away from game dev, like newtek apparently did with lightwave. Has this changed with 801?
If you pop into the Modo SE chat channel on steam, you can talk to the guy who made that video. Theres generally a member of the Foundry staff in there and its a great way to find out more information or just chat it up about the software. I see no reason why it cant be baked into a normal map though. Theres always…