In that case get in touch with autodesk for a beta seat, which they have publicly offered left and right for months now, and go keep an eye on Bifrost personally.
That's their plainly declared "spiritual successor" to ICE. On 9 Mar 2014 17:40, "Jason S" <jasonsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the sentiment was not necessaritly Ice centric.. > If a day would come where Maya+Bifrost (overall) would, in real terms, > actually compete .. (Maya workflow cut in half) at that point we could then > freely shed tears & veneer the (past) legacy of Softimage. > > On 03/09/14 1:14, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: > > I think you're extremely unlikely to see something like that. > The only app that could possibly benefit and take the windows dependencies > might be max, but rumors have long had it that the max team pretty much > outright refused it back then betting the horse on a half arsed > implementation of TP instead. That PM has, since then, been fired I believe. > > Maya will be the first to receive Bifrost, and Bifrost is actually > stand-alone philosophically and architecturally, so it might or might not > be plugged into other software or become its own thing. I'm sure in the > back of someone's mind at AD there's this possibility, or at least back-up > plan, that if everything else goes to shit monopoly wise they could at > least have that as a production hub and platform central to some markets. > > Given Soft was finally murdered in cold blood with the misguided > intention of re-resourcing and re-focusing heavily on less efforts, and > everything I heard on all channels pretty much sings the same song (sorry, > no mustache twirling, cat petting backlit villain sitting on an iron chair > whipping Chris and Maurice into performing unspeakable acts), I seriously, > seriously doubt ICE as a code base will do anything except rotting on the > vines. > > Bifrost though might soon be able to do a lot of the things ICE was good > for, and a few more to boot. Just give it four or five years and a few > buckets of early adopter blood on the floors and see! In the meantime, > stick to Soft, look at Houdini, or just curl up and cry if ICE is a key > part of your day; there is nothing, nor there will be for a few years, that > can do exactly all the same things as elegantly within the domain of what > ICE does well (though some other things ICE doesn't do so well at are > possible elsewhere). > > Fabric has some visual programming cooking up as well according to Paul, > but I don't know when and to what extent it'll be available and fruible. > Right now I give it more of a chance than I'll give to Bifrost to be useful > for something next year or two. > > > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Katherine Rodtsbrooks < > krodtsbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I sincerely hope that Autodesk won't throw away what was working... let's >> move Ice over to another package! >> >> -- >> Katherine Jones >> > > > > -- > Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it > and let them flee like the dogs they are! > > >
