Question is actually is does any of these concerns comes anywhere near people taht can make any decision at all even by long shot, or they are all filtered and fire walled by poor souls that in front of AD have to receive negative feedback from Softimage guys? It is simply possible that all these complains simply gets filtered, anything that has anything to do with same Softimage options is pushed to spam, end of story, and those that ask about Maya transition they are ok. And just one more thing to add and really nothing else is left to say. To a lot of people Softimage is really ONLY solution and tool they can use in daily work to be productive and competitive. Transferring to anything else, either AD horses max and maya or others on the market houdini max.... will render them efficient enough to fight for place on market which is hard even as it is. So beside working every day you need to learn new thing too.. Do you really think that people now have time for that? O to simply just stop working for a month or more to learnt new tool and then start working gain. And remember people have to eat every day, pay bills... So whoever thought of brilliant idea: oh they ca just move to another tool" have NO IDEA how this work is done and what it means to find any time per day or week for learning beside trying to work for living. But how they could know, their bank accounts are filled that they can stop working and earning now and would be set for couple generations... Us, "normal" working people actually depend on daily and monthly income.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Stephan Hempel <elh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since there still seems some chance for improvement of the current > situation I have yet another suggestion although I am sure that we > can't turn the wheel back. > > It was stated that quite some schools use Softimage for teaching 3D > for obvious reasons. There shouldn't be a reason why they are stopping > this instantly. With no other software you can gain so much basic > understanding of 3D in a short amount of time so hazzlefree like with > Si. Learning 3D can be such a daunting experience. Boy, if I had made > my final film with Softimage instead of Maya... No student needs the > newest version of a 3D software. Even we professionals very rarely use > its full potential. And when you have learned the basics you can > easily transfer them to other packages. > > At the same time it is clear Autodesk can't offer a viable alternative > to Si at this point in time. To be honest I don't think there will be > an alternative on the horizon without a major rewrite of Maya and we > all know how long this can take (How long took Moondust?) > > Imho, a good compromise for all would be if Autodesk stopped active > development besides of bug fixing and opening up the SDK for third > party development and let Si remain in its product portfolio. To be > honest I find it an absolute ridiculous idea to stop selling a product > within 2 weeks time. A product which doesn't cost any more money and > has still the potential to earn some shouldn't be put from the market. > What if in the future a company decides it needs Softimage for a > certain task? > > Related to this with FabricEngine some promising developments are > coming which mean that the host application doesn't necessary needs to > be active developed and can nonetheless live on for quite some time > by third party development. I see FabricEngine in a form of "geriatric > care" for retired Softimage. That would also give everybody more > breath for transitioning to possibly upcoming alternatives. So don't > put it this abruptly from the market. It simply doesn't make any > sense. > > Second thought to this. As a solo entrepreneur never having seen a > large studio from the inside I have only a notion of how complex large > studio piplines for film or games can be. But I find two years for > transitioning especially for large studios a ridicioulus short amount > of time. Most likely you are cought in production right now, in > preproduction for the next show and planning a sequal for a Softimage > produced film afterwards. And then you should rebuild your whole > pipeline right in the middle within 24 months? > Especially in the sensitive state the VFX industry is right in the > moment? (I've just watched "Life after Pi", quite depressing) > So 5 to 10 years would be a much more reasonable amount of time for > transitioning especially for the large studios. This would also help > that 3rd party development doesn't cease so rapidly. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Cheers, > Stephan. > > > MP> Hi everyone, > > MP> I have an update to the Softimage Transition Plan to share with you: > > MP> When we created the initial Softimage transition plan our desire > MP> was to provide our customers with > MP> an easy, no-cost path to transition to either 3ds Max or Maya. > MP> We have been monitoring all of your > MP> feedback on the forums, including many direct conversations with our > customers, and have made > MP> adjustments to the transition offering to address your concerns. > MP> As we had previously announced, a > MP> program is available to all Softimage customers on Subscription > providing you with the option of > MP> migrating to 3ds Max or Maya via a bundle that will include a > MP> Softimage license until April 2016. > MP> Based on your feedback we will be adding the ability to continue to > access Softimage indefinitely > MP> with your Subscription entitlement even after we stop support on > MP> Softimage in April 2016. We have > MP> heard you and we want to make sure you can continue to be able to > MP> access your Softimage projects even > MP> after the retirement of Softimage. Our intention was not to > MP> create more burden on you with this > MP> difficult change. > > MP> As many of you have also asked about this, we would also like to > MP> clarify what will happen if you do > MP> not want to transition: your licenses will not stop working. Any > licenses you have purchased are > MP> yours. They are perpetual licenses and will continue working > MP> whether you are on Subscription or not. > MP> You will continue to be able to contact support if you need to move a > license to a new machine. > > MP> maurice > MP> Maurice Patel > MP> Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > > > > >
