Ohh so many memories, what great times working with some great artists.Thanks @kirk
Toni! And I spelled your name wrong!? I’m doubly sorry. Regardless, it’s great to see you here!
No worries. Its great to be here
Well as a bonus, here’s a picture of Steve, Marshall, and Bill that I’m PRETTY SURE was taken after we were all kicked out of Spirit Lounge for being… insufficiently vegan (and also unruly).
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I did this for days and each edl was a reel that we had to take in to action to combine… the organization was nuts to keep straight also locking reels was your friend
Chris…by any chance was that film “Everyone Says I Love You?” My first flame gig was wire removal on film back in 1996.
Does anyone remember what version of Flame introduced legit g-mask splines?
@andymilkis
It hasn’t been invented yet…
(Please reinstate explicit vertex and tangent vectors in the animation channels? What? Never gonna happen? Not going backwards in time? Dang!)
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I was referring to when the Gmask node made it’s debut. Before that we had to make masks in paint. There were linear and b-spline, IIRC.
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Flame 4 or flame 5
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ok so…when I “bought” flame as customer 3 - no video card…had to reload unix one time with client IN THE ROOM (somehow Nick (the only customer service guy) helping me with a “core dump” wiped out Unix!) and also when we finally DID get video I only had field 2 - remember arguing with SGI that I needed BOTH fields…and then the first flame user group - beers - 6 of us and we exchanged tips on how to generate a black frame and a white one ( you couldn’t actually do that in flame) - that turned into a flame email thread for tips and tricks which turned into fxguide…and the rest is HISTORY
(oh and that time that Nick (customer service) spent all night helping me upgrade to the version that actually had audio only to find out together that you had to load each module separately…did I say alll night?? on a land line???)
good times…
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Like I said, nobody really has any good memories of staying indoors shunting pixels around.
It’s your brain archive OTOCS playing tricks with your newly lobotomized selves.
Jon Hollis told me fun stories of how one of the financial backers for one of his early flame companies pulled the money out while they were in Las Vegas buying the flame.
People are evil douchebags.
Especially the rich ones.
Then discreet logic stepped in to help.
Imagine if autodesk helped to back you as a young company?
Or Richard Branson…
Respectfully @philm they we’re the best of times. They were the worst of times.
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Goldie Hawn dancing in the treetops in Amsterdam. We all took it up the backside that week. The producer gave us shit for taking longer than any of the other 6 companies they farmed the shots out to. He seemed flumoxed when it was pointed out that they gave us the longest shots. His previous job had been as an accountant. Every job I ever worked on with that not-to-be-named artist/designer turned into a disaster.
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I’m not sure if this counts but I gave myself a hernia carrying one of the old Sony GUI monitors down the stairs in Cape Town 
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Oh…it counts!
What about when our Onyx 2 was EOL and was down to 2 processing blades? The poor thing took 45 minutes to boot. Something that was really tough telling the ops.
“Well… I guess it’s lunch time”
The Tezro to Linux switch was, I think, relatively painless, but we took the opportunity to split the smoke and flame licenses, which led to the most productive week of my life when I had both machines on my desk.
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and Fred Raimondi 
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You got OT for that? I was a junior on a salary for less than 40k, it was just an expectation/requirement here.
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