I read all these threads and the general feeling I get is: people are
accepting what's happening... But didn't we accept too much since 2008?
AD acquisition, AD not promoting Softimage, AD kicking Softimage's
original developers: for all these slaps, we grumbled then we accepted.
Now AD kills Softimage: we grumble then we accept! We're even helping AD
to improve Maya!
The last request to AD from our community is to keep Softimage half
alive with some small fixes from time to time. I have a question for
those who requested it: if AD grants you that, and if Softimage becomes
a stagnant living dead app, will you be happy? Will you thank AD for that?
Now AD says with some workflow ideas from Softimage, the future of Maya
is bright (click). Do you buy it? Can they do it? A true nonlinear
workflow? A modern GUI where everything is drag and droppable? A render
region? An explorer so complete? A true animation mixer?
If Ad asks you to leave your young beautiful wife, and choose your fat
ugly mother in law instead, would you accept?
Why not keeping Softimage's development instead! It already has a solid
ground for improvements. When V7 came out and ICE was making a lot of
buzz, who in this community would have thought our software of choice
(and us) would head for this situation? It's like XSI was an orphan
child, adopted by some cold, silent parents, who do not understand his
talent or even his culture. They see no use for him so they kill him.
Enough! Screw the fifth stage of grief! Acceptance? What AD is doing is
NOT acceptable. Everyone should go back to stage 2: RAGE. I'd just like
to see more fighting spirit here. Something should be possible to stop
this madness and to bring XSI back to the time it was dazzling everyone.
The open letters and Pooby's project are great initiatives. These days
I'm contacting all my friends to ask them to sign the petition. Perhaps
I'm unrealistic, but I can't let XSI die without a fight.
David
