You are probably right. But these times are a little bit different and maybe that's exactly the one chance inside all this mess. We're all sitting in the same boat at the same time. I know a lot of studios who entirely rely on Softimage for lighting. All of these will have to spend time and thus money to move on to another pipeline during the next two years anyway. So why not invest at least parts of this time into the same thing? Individuals are great, and the community should absolutely try. But it's so hard to put something like this together in your spare time. A few studios supporting and profiting from this effort would accelerate the whole process immensely. And about showing potential: wasn't Stage, and all the other fabric applications build for exactly this reason? To show the potential of such a project?
2014-03-04 21:55 GMT+01:00 Steven Caron <car...@gmail.com>: > it is a bit harder for visual effects vendors/studios, in an already > difficult market, spending money on software development (not their core > business) is a hard sell. seeing a product or product in development on the > other hand drums up interest which leads to real investment and > collaboration. they need to see if their ideas are aligned with others on > the project. don't take my comment as discouragement, it is just how i see > it... for now it will be on individuals to come together on a project which > shows potential. i hope we, the remaining softimage community, can do that > together. again, not discouragement to any studio which wants to partner to > make something happen... > > steven > > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Felix Geremus < > felixgere...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> >> So now that Softimage will be gone, isn't there room or even need for >> collaboration here? Before everybody tries to build something themselves, >> shouldn't people try to bundle forces? And I'm not only talking about >> individuals here. I'm talking about small to medium size companies who >> couldn't afford to build something like this alone. >> >
