Hi Maurice, could you explain what you mean by "certain flexibility". I began working as head of 3d in a new studio, and they were working until now with Maya and we would like to migrate to a profesional tool like softimage. I won't be able to start the purchase process until April 15th. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance. F.
On Monday, March 24, 2014, Maurice Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > If you buy a license now you will have a certain flexibility later to add > new licenses. But ultimately, yes, the program was built for existing > customers to be able (if they want) to transition their licenses to 3ds Max > and Maya and not really for new customers to be able to invest in Softimage. > maurice > > > > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Maurice > > > > I don't think anyone who is going to start a CG career will do it based > on SI even if you don't stop selling it for a few months or years! It isn't > logic to do it. Only those who are already Softimage users and have > Softimage based projects running will need new licenses to use a few years > more. > > > > There are still too many projects based on Softimage in the industry and > we need to be able to buy Softimage licenses for at least a year or two to > be able to pick those jobs and finish them! > > > > I was planning to buy one license soon, go freelance and probably buy a > few more later before the announcement. So should I just give up and don't > take those jobs ? just because you decided that that was the best solution > for us? You should have give us time to plan what to do with our business. > > > > Isn't it bad enough that you discontinue, without warning, the best tool > we have to make a living ? > > > > Martin > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On 2014/03/25, at 4:27, Maurice Patel <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> The bundle is a transition bundle therefore it is only for those who > >> already have Softimage to get access to Maya or 3s Max for free > >> Existing customers can also purchase new seats to increase capacity if > they need to Softimage is discontinued from sale because we would prefer > for anyone starting a career or a business not to do so on a product we are > no longer developing. However if you really want it there is an option: > Softimage will be in the Ultimate Suite for 2 more years, If you are a > student with an accredited institution you should qualify for special > discount rate too. > >> BTW - everything has a cost and implementing and maintaining > >> offerings in our systems is not trivial Maurice > >> > >> > >> Maurice Patel > >> Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > >> > >> From: [email protected] > >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emilio > >> Hernandez > >> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 2:59 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass > >> > >> What I still don't understand is why Autodesk cannot still deliver > Softimage last version to Max or Maya suite, bundle or whatever name it has. > >> I know they've saying a lot of reasons, but really none of them makes > anysense to me. > >> > >> After all we will be buying Maya, MAX seats to get Softimage. It still > means revenue from them for a software they are going to stop devoloping, > addressing bugs or fixes. > >> Ok. Don't sell Softimage seats perse, but package Softimage like Toxic. > Let the user decide what tool he wants to work with. Just keep the Send > to Softimage button regardless of the Maya version. > >> This is no additional cost to Autodesk. > >> > >> Is this too much to ask? > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------- > >> Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. > >> > >> 2014-03-24 12:23 GMT-06:00 Nuno Conceicao <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > >> So for what I understood you can buy your first license only till the > 28th then after this you are able to purchase more. > >> If you have no licenses after this date you wont be able to purchase > >> Softimage anymore... :( So I would suggest you get in touch with a > >> retailer asap, he will be able to confirm this info obviously > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Nuno Conceicao < > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I think you have until the 28th March to be able to purchase > >> Softimage for the fir
