Having the same conversation with our students tomorrow. But I think they always knew why we taught Soft and we always referred to Maya/Max specific tools to reassure them the craft uses the same essential tech. The likely hood was they would need to reskill at some point in new software, we were never precious about that idea. Like Andy says, a grad who can hold a conversation about their practise and skill base is always going to do well. We are also going to do a weeks workshop of Soft to Maya transition towards the end of the year.
Cheers Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition and Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Email: sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk> Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965805<tel:+44%20(0)%201202%20965805> Profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sofronisefstathiou BFX Festival - http://www.bfxfestival.com/ Student Work: http://www.youtube.com/NCCA3DAnimation http://www.youtube.com/NCCADigitalFX http://www.youtube.com/NCCAAnimation [cid:image001.jpg@01CEC43E.A54FCD10]<http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/> [cid:image002.png@01CEC43E.A54FCD10] <http://www.bfxfestival.com/> [cid:image003.jpg@01CEC43E.A54FCD10] Awarded for world-class computer animation teaching with wide scientific and creative applications On 5 Mar 2014, at 15:50, "Andy Jones" <andy.jo...@gmail.com<mailto:andy.jo...@gmail.com>> wrote: If it helps, Angus, as someone who deals with interviewing and crewing/staffing people, I can tell you that for us, it is far more important to find people who understand how to seek out the best tool they can find for every job and actually put it to use, rather than people who just want to tick a box in a list of job requirements. Ticking the box is of course important for freelancers at a more senior level on short term gigs, but at the junior level, what we care about is potential, the drive to push that potential, and personality. (And outstanding artistic and/or technical abilities, of course). For example, all things being equal, a kid who walks in and can actually hold his own in a conversation with me about how to migrate his skillset from Softimage often stands a way better chance than someone who comes in and says he "knows Maya." (We are mostly Maya based in LA). On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za<mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za>> wrote: When we switched from maya to softimage we had an immediate improvement in what they were able to deliver. I have no regrets about that. I can understand their frustration though, the job market is hard when your starting out and they dont really have anywhere else to vent. Sparing with Luc Eric has given me a thick skin ;) Just shows how AD$K's decision has much bigger knock on effects then they realise. ________________________________ From: Maurício PC [goneba...@gmail.com<mailto:goneba...@gmail.com>] Sent: 05 March 2014 05:19 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement If your students are slamming you Angus, they are stupid. The knowledge of Softimage is easily transferable as it teach you how to think properly. I'm certain they would be less artists if they started with the Maya-hell. Oh well ... I'm almost buying this Modo 701 special offer. Damn. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za<mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za>> wrote: Great getting past students slamming our decision to teach Softimage on facebook. Not sorry for teaching the best software for DCC. 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