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  • Hopefully things will go on as normal, and we'll just switch to whatever model of paid service works for the site. They aren't letting anyone know what the changes will be until may. Other than that they will be discontinuing the free service in association with the layoffs.

    Part of the reason we chose ning initially for this was that they promised there would be a migration path off their servers if they ever stopped doing it.
  • Just an update on this. Based on the information we've been given so far by Ning the existing Studio Artist forum should be continuing along with no problems. If anything it will probably be considered an improvement by a lot of users since the ads will be vanishing.
    • thanks john

      will be emailing you a message about my troubles with layers.
  • We've now made the transition to the new Ning services. As you can see it doesn't really affect the forum at all. Except in a positive way, the ads are gone now.

    The only real change is that you can no longer directly upload a video file to the forum. You need to upload to a 3rd party video file sharing service like vimeo.com, and then link to that via a video embed code when posting video to the forum. I don't see this as being an issue, since everyone has been doing this anyway since the compression quality of Ning's direct video uploads was so poor.
    • thanks for the update john.

      still testing on some old session files that seem to be doing the right things at this point.
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On the closure of the User Forum : An open letter to John Dalton

Hi John I have no idea what you are going through. However the impact you have made not to continue with the user forum and your desire keep it as a permanent feature as promised in the past is a big shock. It also betrays the faith and love we have shown in you and Studio Artist.  Bluntly spoken, it sucks. That you have chosen to follow this direction in silence, allowing no compassion or understanding on our part is a betrayal of the deepest level. What is going on? This is not the John…

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2 Replies · Reply by Paul Perlow 1 hour ago

Interdimensional Coincidence Control

Hi everyone, I am glad the site is still here! Here is a new short video I made. All made in Studio Artist, several separate videos with alpha channels, then combined in layers with the music in Blender. A lot of MSG running through brushes, with several of the brush Path Starts being controlled by the MSG Scan Generator in the Generator part of the Path Start in the Paint Synthesizer. Also some MSG running through a brush, then making a video of that with an alpha channel, then making that a…

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3 Replies · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 22

Whats going on with this site?

Has anyone else gotten a warning about this site disappearing? An email form just popped up, asking me to contract the owner and leave a message to let them know that they may loose their "network"Did Synthetik forget to pay it's bills, or is something else going on?I think 8 months is more than enough vacation time. Is anyone at Synthetik doing any development work at all? 

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7 Replies · Reply by Alf 1 hour ago