Inside Hues

Product Marketing Manager Lisa Crounse takes you on a behind the scenes tour of what goes into developing a new technology for Autodesk Labs. Lisa introduces you to members of the Impression development team and shares their unique ideas and insights.

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posted 01/30/07 by Lisa Crounse Entourage - Its not just an HBO original
Okay, so our Impression entourage doesn’t include a guy trying to make it big in Hollywood, and you won’t see any of us presenting at the Golden Globes, but the Impression entourage library will soon include a cast of characters from the Impression team. (Coming to a Tech Preview near you…)

We’ve had a lot of requests to ship with more entourage elements – cars, plants and people, so Product Manager Michael Perani came up with a solution, “How about we take some photos of the team, and have them stylized, and voila, we’ll have a library of royalty-free library of images.” (Okay, that is my paraphrasing what was going on in Mike’s mind.)

Before we knew it, we were all posing in front of a giant tarp out by the dumpsters in back of our building. Let’s just say that it wasn’t exactly like walking the catwalk at fashion week. Oh, and we were instructed not to wear black or patterns. Imagine that – designers - not wearing black. Many of us felt really out of our element.

Step 1: Work the parking lot.

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Step 2: Become part of a software application.

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What began as a simple idea to solve a problem quickly became a fad, and before we knew it, people were clamoring to become blocks. As we were trying to set up a schedule for additional photo shoots, Michael wrote me, “So do you think that being Impression entourage will be the super trendy thing to do. Kinda like when the biggest stars of the 60’s were begging to be villain guest stars on the Batman show? Hmmmm…probably not quite THAT trendy eh?”

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So far, the trend hasn’t gone far past the parking lot of an office building in San Rafael, but who knows…maybe one of us will make it big in one of your Impression images! You can't wait to get your hands on Technology Preview 4, can you?

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  • I gotta ask. When is Shaan Hurley's entourage pic coming to Impression and what about Mike? BTW you should have named the team members. I recignize a few, but not all.

    Posted 2/1/2007 11:35 PM by Nick Van Laar

  • Shaan needs to come out here to get his picture taken:)

    Here's the roll call for the folks above, going clockwise from the upper left corner - Nikolai Sander (development), Yan Schober (Design), Jay Behr (Design), Matt Rogers (on loan from the Plant group), Katy Evans (also on loan from the Plant group), Amy Peterson (Program Manager - more about her in my next blog entry), Long Pan (Design), Linda Saldana (Technical Publications), yours truly.

    We have a bunch more coming, so I'll be sure to introduce new folks as those come along!

    Posted 2/5/2007 11:51 AM by Lisa Crounse