"Last year was a watershed one for the industry for many different reasons
resulting in many significant changes to our strategy"
Yes, the industry is changing. Budgets are getting smaller and work needs to
be done faster.
So surely, the wise thing to do would be to invest in the tool with the
fastest workflow. I have spent the last 3 years demonstrating to my studio
why Softimage needs to be what we are using to make our projects feasible,
and despite the fact, I'm the only Softimage person there. I have managed to
persuade them through demonstration and now we are setting up production
with it.
By making tools that perform complex tasks quickly ( Softimage and ICE
combo ), There is a huge market to be explored doing movie quality work on
television that would have been unfeasible a few years ago.
How do you think it feels after all that effort, RIGHT before the project is
about to start, to hear this news? Its utterly short sighted and I imagine
it will be rather embarrassing when we reveal how we managed to pull this
off , as its going to be a testament to the clear advantage given by
Softimage over any other solution and I will take every opportunity I can to
say that.
There is no way I'm going to change tracks back to a tool I had to spend all
that time proving Softimage was far superior to.
-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Patel
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:21 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Autodesk webinar
Hi Perry,
At that time, although Softimage was not an area we were planning on
investing more in, there was no plan to discontinue it. That decision was
only made at the end of last year. Last year was a watershed one for the
industry for many different reasons resulting in many significant changes to
our strategy. At the time this statement was made we did not even have any
plans for MayaLT. Unfortunately things can change very fast.
maurice
Maurice Patel
Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Perry Harovas
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:12 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Autodesk webinar
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."
