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TESTIMONIALS
what our clients say
Yost Group
"The
Yost Group is the development arm of Autodesk / Kinetix. We are the
developers of 3D Studio DOS and 3D Studio MAX—3D animation programs
for video and film production. Due to the complex nature of 3D animation
production, good manuals and support docs are essential. This is what
Forcade Associates have consistently provided.
Since 1991, Forcade
Associates has provided alpha/beta testing and ongoing developer and
user support for both programs. Forcade Associates' tutorial articles
and books have enabled 3D Studio artists and animators worldwide.
Additionally, they
have been a tremendous resource for 3D Studio plug-in Developers including
Kinetix, Second Nature Ltd. and Unreal Pictures. They have proven themselves
time and again to be an excellent source of content for user documentation
and instruction manuals.
Their user manuals
are well designed, comprehensive, and extremely effective. They have
always produced these documents on time and within budget. Their quality
has been consistently reflected in the positive feedback we have received
from our user base and various plug-in developers."
Gary Yost, President
Digimation Inc.
" I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thanks for a job well
done. Once again you and your crew have come in on time and on budget.
The World Builder manual looks great and exceeds our expectations despite
the fact that this was a huge job and perhaps bigger than we both counted
on.
World Builder has
received some great reviews and each one has commented on the quality
of the documentation. We look forward to working with you again in the
future."
David Avgikos, President
UnReal Pictures, Inc.
"Unreal Pictures Inc. develops Character Studio for Kinetix,
the multimedia division of Autodesk. For our 1.0 release, the services
of Forcade Associates were enlisted to 1) help the tech pubs team at
Kinetix draft the User's Guide and 2) develop a set of tutorials that
would teach our users the fundamental features of our software. Because
Character Studio 1.0 introduced many new ideas and innovative techniques
to the character animation community, a great challenge of this documentation
effort was to help our users conceptualize our product's novel methodology
and overall framework .
From the outset,
Forcade Associates focussed on making sure that the "big picture" of
the software was clearly communicated. We appreciated that their team
expended the effort needed to learn our software at its deepest levels
of complexity. They soon became our most prized expert users. In fact,
since our work with Forcade Associates began while we were still in
beta testing, they made many important contributions to improve both
the Character Studio user-interface and its overall work flow. At the
same time, they were meticulous and thorough in their attention to details
in the documentation that we sometimes overlooked. Most importantly,
their writing skills helped us overcome the task of explaining the difficult
technicalities of our software so that the content in the docs could
reach the user's mind in their own language.
It was a great pleasure
to work with Forcade Associates, and we would welcome the opportunity
to do business with them again."
Michael Girard, President
Computer Graphics World
"As a contributing editor for Computer Graphics World magazine,
Tim Forcade has provided valuable insights regarding developments in
the graphics industry. His recommendations as to which animation tools
and technologies show the greatest promise for artists and animators
have been a tremendous asset to the publication.
Because he also
uses these products in his own work, he has been able to provide not
only a thorough understanding of how well a particular software program
performs its intended task, but practical advice in its use as well.
His professionalism, adherence to deadlines, and degree of product knowledge
in writing product reviews and other editorial for the magazine have
been exemplary."
Amy Rowell, Senior Editor
Second Nature Ltd.
"Second Nature Industries Ltd developed HyperMatter, a soft body
dynamics plug-in for 3D Studio MAX. Because HyperMatter offers a unique
approach to animation, its processes and even its language had to be
defined from scratch. The application is unique and represents a major
shift in paradigm for computer animators. This had a significant effect
on both the user interface design and the documentation. We were recommended
Forcade Associates by some colleagues of ours for whom Forcade Associates
had built a complete training and documentation suite for an animation
software application.
They (Forcade Associates)
were involved from the outset and made invaluable contributions to the
product's design and usability. Last year we received an industry “Product
of the Year” award and the award review commented on the elegance and
sophistication of our interface, for which Forcade Associates were largely
responsible.
Forcade Associates
were instrumental in the authorship of HyperMatter's esoteric lexicon,
as our product needed completely new language to define its functionality.
This was very important in expressing HyperMatter's complexities to
our non-technical user base. Forcade Associates manual expanded on their
lexicon to provide an exceptional reference to our program's processes
and techniques. Our users appreciate the great docs produced by Forcade
Associates. Their superb work has streamlined user support and thus
saved our company time and money."
Blair Harrison, President
Sony Interactive Studios America
"As a senior member of a team of artists and engineers working
in game development, I am often placed in situations where I am in need
of specific technical information very quickly. This can occur in both
the initial planning phases of a project, or at the eleventh hour when
a deadline is looming and there is no time for experimentation.
Over the past four
years, I have leveraged Forcade Associate's expertise in finding solutions
to complex graphics problems through their articles and books, which
have become a staple in my reference library.
I would highly recommend
Forcade Associates to anyone seeking timely and reliable information
on computer graphics, design, or information systems."
Mark Anderson, Art Director, Product Development
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