“It was in our hotel room, recalls Davidson, fondly. While the other companies were spending a fortune on marketing, got to know everyone personally and that was a great move at the time.” ICE editor (click for larger image)Īctually the first every user group was officially the User Group at SIGGRAPH 1989 in Boston. We all had Greg and Kim’s home phone numbers and they never minded us calling in the middle of the night if we had problems.
But it was such a great family atmosphere at the first user groups. As one original user Harry Magiros, (who went on to be an Australian reseller for Side Effects), recalls, “Greg would throw these amazing parties with interactive stuff happening – all live – which back then was unheard of, today of course you can do it with a PS3. Mojo morphingįrom the earliest days, Side Effects threw good parties. All this in addition to the tools around the core Action module, such as the channel editor JIVE and the Material Editor Lava. But Prisms also included Mojo – a morphing package, Moca a motion control interface and ICE, Interactive Compositing Environment. In Prisms this was controlled and programmed by SAGE which allowed the procedural SOP’s to produce say complex reflections on logos that were not naturally available directly. To work on Prisms meant as it does still today – an offer of expanding on the functionality of the products via procedural animation.
Interestingly, many of Houdini’s features and products can be mapped back to that set of applications that passed the torch to Houdini around 1986 (although there was a period when both Houdini and Prisms was sold).
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By the time the software was being phased out, Prisms was a suite of software products, all referred to as Prisms but really almost separate products in their own right. Prisms or the Action 3D animation module at its core was the first of the company’s products. Action 3D: The screen grabs are from PRISMS 7 running on Kim’s own SGI Octane
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Kim Davidson and Greg Hermanovic bought the rights of the Prisms 3D software source code from the receivers and incorporated Side Effects Software as a company (as you can hear in our exclusive interview with Kim Davidson). But in late 1987 Omnibus got into trouble and fell into bankruptcy. In 1987 Omnibus was the largest CG production house in the world having just acquired Robert Abel and Associates and Digital Productions the year before, who had a CRAY computer.
Listen to our interview with Kim Davidson below: īefore there was Houdini there was Prisms, which was based on in-house code written for the computer production company Omnibus. This work allowed, for the first time, efficient rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke and clouds in a micro-polygon imaging pipeline. We talk to co-founder, chief executive officer and president of Side Effects Kim Davidson, and two of Side Effects’ staff honored at this year’s Sci-Tech Oscars, Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt, about the invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra renderer. The company’s Houdini product rides high as the go-to tool for procedural and effects animation.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Side Effects Software.
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