Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

There are a lot of blind people here. AD sucks. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Guy Rabiller wrote: > > All until Autodesk came. > > Here is what happened in 2008: > > http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112=12030177=14271589 > > Then when Ronald

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

All until Autodesk came. Here is what happened in 2008: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112=12030177=14271589 Then when Ronald Beirouti left (who created ICE), it was definitely the end of ICE (and Softimage).

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

** The 2003-2012 list was XSIBase job post count. On 04/20/16 20:45, Jason S wrote: On 04/20/16 7:27, Matt Lind wrote: The couple of versions of extra

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

On 04/20/16 7:27, Matt Lind wrote: The couple of versions of extra dev was just the benefit of having the larger staff for a short period of time. You can look at Softimage's market share any way you like, but it all comes back to

Re: New render layers in maya

a better video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZu-zjtd6PQ On 20 April 2016 at 01:59, Francois Lord wrote: > Ok I just watched the video and I must admit this is pretty cool! > Expressions for collection members, relative overrides with multiplier > and offset, overrides

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

"We use Shotgun here and the general perception is that the development pace has appeared to slow since the acquisition. There has been updates and some nice stuff, but at the same time larger chunks that seem to be still pending." This has been our observation as well... some basic things like

RE: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Welcome back, Stephen. gray From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 10:07 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle On Wed, Apr 20, 2016

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Same here. Glad you were part of the acquisition. You help has always been invaluable and incredibly appreciated. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Angus Davidson wrote: > Good to hear ;) Hope it continues to be awesome > > > On 20 Apr 2016, at 4:07 PM, Stephen Blair

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Good to hear ;) Hope it continues to be awesome On 20 Apr 2016, at 4:07 PM, Stephen Blair > wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Rob Wuijster > wrote: Yes, I can imagine Stephen was jumping

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Rob Wuijster wrote: > Yes, I can imagine Stephen was jumping with joy to be part of the AD > family again... ;-) > Getting laid off by Autodesk was the best thing that ever happened to me ;) Because I couldn't have planned a better career move.

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Yes, I can imagine Stephen was jumping with joy to be part of the AD family again... ;-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 20-4-2016 12:40, Srecko Micic wrote: Interesting thing is that Stephen Blair is again at AD :D -- *Micic Srecko* --- *Mail:*

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Just speculation on my part, but I think the hiring of the Singapore team was made after the decision to send Softimage into maintenance mode. The Montreal and Singapore teams co-existed as a means to get the Singapore team up to speed with the nuances of the application as Softimage was built

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

> > Interesting thing is that Stephen Blair is again at AD :D > > -- > *Micic Srecko* > ow my, I wonder how he feels. -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Interesting thing is that Stephen Blair is again at AD :D \-- **Micic Srecko** \--- **Mail:** [srecko.mi...@gmail.com](mailto:srecko.mi...@gmail.com) **Skype**: srecko.micic \--- On Apr 20 2016, at 10:50 am, Graham Bell bell...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Correction: ADSK bought softimage for $35 million. On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:36:18 +0200, Tom Kleinenberg wrote: That drop in market share was largely down to AD's inability to market it. That was my perception as well, though I'd make that unwillingness, rather than

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:36:18 +0200, Tom Kleinenberg wrote: That drop in market share was largely down to AD's inability to market it. That was my perception as well, though I'd make that unwillingness, rather than inability. Phasing out Softimage however was not so

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

Well, if you remember it was the same profile for Ice. They had that supa-crew of ice developpers that gave us 2 or 3 generations of true big ice improvements (crowd, ice modeling, Build array from set, etc..) Then there was that moment when they fired a big part of the crew, saying that

RE: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

I was hoping shotgun would have been may available to EDU Institutions post acquisition , but sadly that wasn’t the case. I am more hopeful about Arnold. From: Graham Bell [mailto:bell...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2016 10:49 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re:

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

We use Shotgun here and the general perception is that the development pace has appeared to slow since the acquisition. There has been updates and some nice stuff, but at the same time larger chunks that seem to be still pending. >From a brand view AD might keep SA/Arnold separate in the same way

Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle

That drop in market share was largely down to AD's inability to market it. They seemed to be positioning it as an "Almost Houdini but not quite" because it had ICE. They couldn't sell it as an animation package, as that would canibalize Maya market share, an asset creation package as that would