Maurice, I know things change, but this statement from Marc was only a year and a half ago:
"Autodesk plans to continue to develop all of products mentioned [in this story]. These are all solutions that serve many different customer needs across multiple industries and in many different types of workflows. We are not discontinuing development on any of the products you mentioned but we will increase focus in specific areas where individual products are strong." On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>wrote: > Actually at the time of the acquisition Maya and 3ds Max were about 50-50 > in games other than Japan. Outside of Japan, Softimage's core has primarily > been TVC. But this was more about building a run-time tool and so was > different from all three. It was a radically different philosophy to DCC - > maybe too radical. > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Nicolas Esposito > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:52 AM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: Autodesk webinar > > Hello Maurice, > > What sound strange to me is this: Softimage for years had all the > necessary tools in order to satisfy game development technology, which is > way more advanced than 3ds and Maya. > Facerobot, even if old and not updated at all in the last years, is a > quick way to produce head rigs with lipsync and optionally mocap, and it > generate ready-to-use models for game engines > Rendermap, altough is a tool that is used right now in other 3d app, is a > tool which was there since long time, same thing Ultimapper, GATOR ( which > is unique and Ubisoft had to made their own GATOR inside 3DS ) and poly > reduction, with many other useful tools. > Not even considering that lots of companies are still using Softimage for > game development, and companies like Valve and Crytek release their own > plugins in order to properly use propetary model export into their game > engines. > > What is not clear is, since Softimage had those tools for a very long > time, you decided to push Maya into Game Development instead of Softimage, > which was ( still, not the recent release, but for years ) the perfect > candidate for that. > > 2014-03-18 15:40 GMT+01:00 Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com > <mailto:maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>>: > Hi Alastair, > There were many reasons behind the acquisition but the main one was > because we saw an opportunity not just in ICE but also in the engineering > team that was capable of creating it. As Marc Petit stated in the press > release at the time: > "Upon the completion of this acquisition we will be adding Softimage > technology and products to our portfolio, and welcoming one of the most > talented teams in the industry to Autodesk Media & Entertainment. Both will > help us accelerate the work of our Games Technology Group, as we build the > next-generation of real-time, interactive 3D authoring tools for games, > film and television." > We had plans to build a next generation technology, starting with games - > we called it project skyline. The industry was in a growth period. Everyone > was optimistic. And if we had succeeded we probably would not be having > this conversation. > maurice > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134<tel:514%20954-7134> > > -----Original Message----- > 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 Angus Davidson > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 4:42 AM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > > > Subject: Re: Autodesk webinar > Xsi in the hands of Dassault would have been something, Adobe not so much > ;). AD bought it purely because ICE was such a threat. > > > On 2014/03/18, 5:55 AM, "David Saber" <davidsa...@sfr.fr<mailto: > davidsa...@sfr.fr>> wrote: > > >Maurice, > >Just one more question: couldn't you have realized that in 2008? Why > >buy Softimage if it's just to realize you don't have enough resource to > >develop it? > >Back in 2008 there were other companies willing to acquire Softimage > >and they would have kept developing it, not kill it. > >Shame. > >David > > > > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/>
