Redshift is very, very nice. ATM, it seems 1 license will be fine to work with both Maya and Softimage.
I have the Redshift paid beta running on my modeling box and use it to literally instantly get a good preview of what things are going to look like later. Redshift has completely changed the level of preview quality I take for granted. VRay 3 for Maya will sure be pretty nice, too. Arnold 1.0.1+ feels pretty mature now and can be found in a great many places looking for an extensible plattform. In terms of rendering options, this is like the golden age finally... Personally, for me it´s mostly Redshift but I wouldn´t automatically discard Vray in favor of Arnold. Arnold already needs significantly more dedication for just getting it to render a sequence out of Maya and the whole kick/ass thing and rlm business is a lot of script(ing) stuff where Vray may provide you with just a button/GUI that works as expected. To me, VRay is the final version of mental ray that actually just works. Arnold is like the stereotype of a TD. Powerful but not neccessarily easy to get just because you dialed the AA. Cheers, tim On 14.03.2014 21:46, Stephen Davidson wrote:
Wait till they see it with 4 Titans installed. Goodbye renderfarm. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com <mailto:mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com>> wrote: Chris, just demo them Redshift inside Softimage. When they see how it works... they must be crazy to ignore it then On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Chris Johnson <chr...@topixfx.com <mailto:chr...@topixfx.com>> wrote: 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:chr...@topixfx.com> *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2014 3:29 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto: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 <mailto:adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com>> wrote: __ +1 this; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] *On Behalf Of *p...@bustykelp.com <mailto:p...@bustykelp.com> *Sent:* 14 March 2014 15:03 *To:* Morten Bartholdy; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto: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 <mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk> *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2014 2:33 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto: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 -- Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson** **(954) 552-7956 * sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com /Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic/ - Arthur C. Clarke <http://www.3danimationmagic.com>
