Valid points Paul. At our shop I'm the last hold out using Softimage and I'm being forced to go down the Max Vray path. I personally plan to hold onto Soft until they tear it out of my cold dead hands. But in the meantime I have to play nice with the masses and move onto something else which has been predetermined.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:45 PM, <p...@bustykelp.com> wrote: > Well its true that we can all carry on using it. Thats my plan for the > foreseeable future, but Its very annoying that firstly you cant just buy > Softimage alone after 2 weeks and then you have to get a package with Maya > which will be more expensive, then in 2 years time, you can't get any more > seats at all. There is no real justification for the bullying tactics > whatever they say. > > I'm hardly bothered at all about them not developing it, I can do that > myself with ICE. I'm more concerned the ability to get new seats. I'll just > have to buy up as many as I can in the next 2 years I guess. > > Paul > > *From:* Chris Johnson <chr...@topixfx.com> > *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2014 3:29 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: More XSI Monkey business by The Mill > > I doubt "The Mill" cares all that much. The artists might. Considering > it's The Mill and they have the R&D infrastructure to make Softimage and > ICE do what they need too....they could probably work for a long time with > the current version as is. What is Autodesk going to bring to the table in > the next 2 releases that the Mill couldn't easily create themselves. > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:22 AM, adrian wyer < > adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> this; >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: >> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of * >> p...@bustykelp.com >> *Sent:* 14 March 2014 15:03 >> *To:* Morten Bartholdy; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> *Subject:* Re: More XSI Monkey business by The Mill >> >> I wonder what the Mill think of all this debacle? >> >> Its so utterly ridiculous discontinuing Softimage. >> >> Its the best solution for designing complex character deformation bar >> none in my opinion. >> >> Surely Autodesk aren't stupid enough to not be able to see that they have >> a diamond here? >> >> 'Selling it as a particle system' my arse! I don't think they even know >> what they have. >> >> Paul >> >> *From:* Morten Bartholdy <x...@colorshopvfx.dk> >> *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2014 2:33 PM >> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> *Subject:* More XSI Monkey business by The Mill >> >> >> While we are talking about why we want to keep using XSI, here goes >> another very good reason: >> >> >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQo0Qtr5iU8 >> >> >> >> >> >> Morten >> >> >> >> >> > >
