Seriously? Modeling with Maya or Max is like making love with a cheese grinder. Painful, no joy, just when you finished. That is Autodesk then. Hate it forever! Hate it forever!
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sven Constable Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 2:03 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Retirement. Beeing a small one man company, rarely doing freelance work at other companys anymore, I'll stay with softimage until I'll die:) I will update to the latest version, be it 2015 or whatever and I will be very happy for the next ten years. For the 3dsmax and maya users, it's not an ideal situation either. Because if AD integrates softimage's functionality into the other packages, it will be only a glimpse of the real strength of softimage. A half-arsed implemented sugarcoat on two gravestones (especially max) with stone-aged architectures that maya and max are. Seems strange to me, that the most modern software of all tree will be retired. In an ideal world ( with a company focusing on innovation and developing) it should be the other way around. Killing max first, then maya. Integrating some of their features into Soft. Of course we're not in an ideal world but in Autodesk world. Oh well. sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of John Clausing Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 1:24 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: Retirement..... It also says "support till April 2016" As for me, as a freelancer, gotta go Maya. But I'm going to learn Modo and Houdini Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Daniel Sweeney <dan...@northforge.co.uk<mailto:dan...@northforge.co.uk>> wrote: So they have spoken. Slow transition to another DCC then it is. I will use soft for as long as possible, But time to get the thinking hat on. What is everyone thinking of going too? I am going to look into modo for my own work I think but will probably need to know a bit about maya for freelance work. utter bullshit, but not a shock to be honest. probably the worse thing that could do is alienate there user base. like the blind leading the blind. Daniel Sweeney 3D Creative Director [http://northforge.co.uk/www/images/emailsig.jpg] Mobile: +44 (0)7743429771 Email: dan...@northforge.co.uk<mailto:dan...@northforge.co.uk> Web: http://northforge.co.uk<http://northforge.co.uk/> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com<mailto:s...@tidbit-images.com>> wrote: Not that I know of. And it says at the top: "Slated for release in 2015?" What? Was it announced - been in lectures all morning? Arse http://www.jigsaw24.com/news/news/11949-autodesk-softimages-retirement-what-you-need-to-know/ Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition & Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Email: sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk><mailto:sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk>> Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965805<tel:%2B44%20%280%29%201202%20965805> Profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sofronisefstathiou Student Work: http://www.youtube.com/NCCA3DAnimation http://www.youtube.com/NCCADigitalFX http://www.youtube.com/NCCAAnimation [cid:image001.jpg@01CF379F.4F6AC9C0]<http://www.bfxfestival.com/competition/> [cid:image002.jpg@01CF379F.4F6AC9C0]<http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/> [cid:image003.png@01CF379F.4F6AC9C0] <http://www.bfxfestival.com/> [cid:image004.jpg@01CF379F.4F6AC9C0] Awarded for world-class computer animation teaching with wide scientific and creative applications [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Images/QueensAwardLogo.jpg] BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages<http://www.disabledgo.com/en/org/bournemouth-university> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email. -- --------------------------------------------- Stefan Kubicek ste...@keyvis.at<mailto:ste...@keyvis.at> --------------------------------------------- keyvis digital imagery Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien Phone: +43 (0) 699 12614231<tel:%2B43%20%280%29%20699%2012614231> www.keyvis.at<http://www.keyvis.at> -- This email and its attachments are -- -- confidential and for the recipient only --
