Many studios having the same problems at the same time is a HUGE opportunity if we leverage it properly.
I completely agree about the collaboration that will be necessary from users. However, for studios' part, I know a lot of places are interested in Fabric already, even if they haven't actually bought licenses yet. So if part of the incentive was some kind of agreement for the FE guys to help nurture a scene assembly tool to life quickly, it might help tip the scale for whatever cost/benefit analysis places are doing. The devs working on Fabric are truly some of the best in the world (and from what I understand, a big part of the reason AD bought Softimage to begin with). They are a big part of the equation for what will happen in the future, even if they don't end up wanting to build a scene assembler as a supported "product" in itself (or who knows -- maybe they will?). It would be great to get a little (or big?) list of studios that are interested in this sort of project (or other ones) and possibly have some kind of summit with the FE guys about what it would take to fast-track FE into certain critical areas of production, assuming a certain number of licenses were purchased. No commitments at this point -- just a list of interested parties who might be curious enough to be part of the conversation, pending whatever other conversations need to be had with superiors. I.e., it's understood that nobody is speaking for their companies at this point. Just indicating that they think their company *might* be interested. I'll start: Psyop Massmarket On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Felix Geremus <felixgere...@googlemail.com>wrote: > 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. >>> >> >
