Yeah, +1 from my side as well.
-M
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Alastair Hearsum <hear...@glassworks.co.uk
> wrote:
> Good idea
>
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> On 11/03/2014 02:49, Greg Punchatz wrote:
>
> Hello Autodesk,
>
> My name is Greg Punchatz , Senior Creative Director at Janimation. I have
> a proposal, or call it a counter offer on the proper way to retire
> Softimage.
>
> First off, if you don't know who I am, I feel like I have been part of the
> Softimage team since the beginning of Sumatra testing. I spent countless
> hours creating content on my own time and letting Softimage use my personal
> work as the sample scenes that make up a good deal of the Softimage
> library. Because of this relationship I have many, many very dear friends
> from all eras of Softimage. From the very top to the bottom of Softimage, I
> was always welcomed as one of the family.
> Our company, Janimation, was instrumental in helping promote XSI from
> its earliest days from being its first customer demo at the XSI launch
> party. To its final days giving Avid and Autodesk permission to use our
> work for promoting Softimage launches. We did this because we truly believe
> it is the best software on the planet for what we do.... and that's
> commercial work. Softimage is lighter on its feet out of the box for the
> kind of work the post production world is doing today in commercials. I
> don't know a single CG supervisor that knows each package equally that
> would rather take a commercial through a single package other than XSI.
>
> That being said, I believe Autodesk needs to be working on a completely
> new 3d software package. I would hope that is the plan. I also understand
> that if you are working towards moving us all to one package, Softimage by
> market share alone is the logical one to first retire as it creates the
> least income.
>
> So if it's time has truly come (even though I believe it is the most
> complete out-of-the-box 3-D solution you provide currently) I think there
> is a more elegant... let's say, a kinder gentler way for Softimage to be
> put into retirement. You can continue to benefit from our subscription
> support while we have enough time to move our existing pipeline to somthing
> else.
>
> Please consider keepinng the current small development team you already
> have for FOUR more years.
>
> With a single focus on these three things: opening up the SDK,
>
> working with 3rd party folk,
>
> and fixing long outstanding low-level requests.
>
> It's nothing but a win-win situation, you still get our money, and we get
> to evalute Maya along the way. It's going to take a lot more than two years
> for a lot of us to be able to make a tranistion completely.
>
> I'm not sure if Autodesk realizes this, but while the team in Singapore
> was not making giant leaps technologically, they were on their way to
> leaving Softimage in a much better state. They need a bit more time than
> you are giving them.
>
> At the end of the four years, we can at least consider staying in the
> Autodesk family because they listened to the users....gave us pleanty of
> heads up of its EOL, and did thier darndest to make sure the last version
> of softimage is the best version ever...XSI deserves that....we deserve
> that ... and quite frankly I deserve that.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Greg Punchatz
>
> Senior Creative Director at Janimation ...
>
>
>
