It is really a shame that Autodesk when bought Softimage, instead of starting the migration from the COM/OLE platform, just took the guts outs of Softimage. The Dev team. To insert it in Maya, which, IMHO is sitll basically the same from those days. I have not seen any "super development" of Maya as it would be expected by such corporate strategy... If by now, Maya had the functionality, beauty, elegance, design, and workflow of Softimage, the story would be different.
I am married to Softimage until "death tear us appart". Maybe it is not Softimage's days the only ones that are counted... Autodesk has been loosing market lately, and has been unsuccesful of driving the "small" but solid Softimage user base to Maya. And when the time comes, my perception is that the mayority of us, at least in the film/vfx industry is looking to other platforms rather than Maya. They betted to the wrong horse, again imho. Maybe I am wrong. But only time will tell. 2014-02-14 10:15 GMT-06:00 Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za>: > > For historical perspective, you need to know that we were owned by > Microsoft in 1998, and there was no indication that SGI or the Mac > would come back from the dead. The company began to consider the Film > industry as "legacy" and that games would be the future. The product > was named after the name of the game exchange format to subtly suggest > that. Max also had taken the Windows NT jump, with huge success. > > Well Microsoft hasnt gotten any better at predicting tech since. Smart > phones, tablets, pretty much anything internet based ;)= > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" > style="width:100%;"> > <tr> > <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" > size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication > is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and > destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this > communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised > signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the > University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message > may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal > views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and > opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All > agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South > African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. > </span></font></td> > </tr> > </table> > > >
