FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Live chatroom event with DAZ Productions Inc.

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Draper, UT – August 7, 2006 - DAZ Productions Inc., a leading developer of professional quality 3D models and software will be having a live chatroom event hosted by Ringo Monfort via EFNET.

Location: EFNET

 channel #carrara  questions

 channel #carrara2 answers

Date and time: Tuesday, August 22nd. 8am Pacific, 9am Mountain time.

DAZ special guests:

Dan Farr, President/Co-Founder

Bob Stockwell, Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Charles Brissart, Director of Software R&D

Chad Smith, Vice President of Creative

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The DAZ executive team will be addressing current concerns of the online user communities in addition to sharing future plans to better serve its customers.

AM???? I hope you'll have a text document of the chat...I'll be working, as I'm sure most will :(

We will capture the  transcript and will be available later the same day.

You maybe surprise but we get lots  of people in the chatevent in the morning.

Good deal - Wish I could be there but can't chat while at office when there is work to be done.

Fergit it. Why would I want to talk to the marketing people who misled me before? Now, you get some of the ENGINEERS up there and you'll have some interest.

Nomuse.

Charles Brissart, Director of Software R&D  Is  the Lead engineer for Carrara and he is now director of all the Software R&D for DAZ.   So you will be talking to the main guy.

Yes, an upper manager. Does he actually get into the guts of the program, or does he attend strategy meetings? There is a difference. I want to hear from someone who is actually working on the program, and can honestly tell me what is happening inside it. Anyone else is simply going to be parroting the current marketing push. I'm sorry if this is argumentative, even insulting. But the team as currently constituted has lost my trust.

Nomuse ,
 Run carrara and look  in the credits and you will really find out who Charles is.
He created the Carrara render engine, Global Illumination, Physics, Caustics, Sub Surface Scattering, NPR and much  much more. So he is  responsible for what has been in  Carrara and what will be added in future versions.
Next time do a bit of research regarding who these persons are.

It is your choice to attend or not  that is all.

Well, if he personally created the GI engine he has my undying respect. That was a sweet piece of work. I see no reason to attend but I look forward with great anticipation to the transcripts. You will be posting that link here, I hope?

Ditto - when & where will the transcript be posted...dying to read it :)

Hey there,

I've been really busy recently. Let me add my request for a transcript of the discussion, or a brief but comprehensive synopsis.

Many thanks!

Add me to the list of those who would like a transcript. I have a normal job during the day, internet is accesible, but I dont want to be caught attending a live chat session.

Well the chat event will be on  the  22th of this month an the transcript will be post later  on that day.

Regards

Ringo

I wonder what posessed them to schedule this for a time when those of us in the USA will be at work? Very disappointing. Scheduling it for the 6-9 or 5-8pm USA time zone range would have been considerate.

Also, the location is only listed as EFNET. Persons unfamiliar with EFNET will need a little more guidance.  :-)

We have had 4 chatroom events in the same location and time and they have very successful. The time helps in many ways it allows  the European community to join.

Sorry but we cannot please everyone. We just do the best we can.

Ringo

Thanks for opening the lines of communication. I am very new to Carrara and Hex. Will be very interested in hearing what the future may look like. And I hope that DAz does a great job at developing this software, and some of the other titles they have. All the best!

This is fantastic news. I'm looking forward to this. I have questions about heavy bleeding edge use of OpenGL possibly getting ahead of the average users hardware in some other than Carrara products. Thanks for this notice. You guys rock!

:biggrin: :b_grin: :biggrin:

Typically the transcript is posted on the yahoo group, this time probably daz and digitalpainters.net, as well. The 2 channels, one for questions and one for answers seems to keep things organized better. Any chat program or chatzilla will work. Many evenings there are users there...so might want to practice if your irc is rusty or new.

http://artzone.daz3d.com/index.php?mode=featured_chat

Dan Farr and Chris Creek will be in a chat over at the Art Zone TODAY (maybe NOW)

August 10, 6 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time-  if you got here later after seeing this-

there will be a transcript made available later...