Hi Jon Unfortunately ours is a combination of two factors
1) We have done extensive polling of current and future students and they have made it very clear they will go elsewhere if we remain on Softimage 2) Even if point 1 wasn't as it is we have a legal imperative from our institution to not teach EOL software. The only grey area we have is the course that started on Softimage before the announcement will be allowed to continue using it. I would love to keep on using Softimage as I feel its a much better choice for people coming to grips with 3D. I wish the situation was otherwise ;( Ours is a small course we only have two staff really not not really much wiggle room. Kind regards Angus Angus, I agree with not teaching EOL software it may not be approprite for you. However I'm not totally undecided or against migrating over the 3 years. Obviously it depends on the set up of the syllabus and staffing. Hi David, I have many questions but my my initial questioning is around character setup and what is an appropriate autorigger (that could complement some rigging principles) We currently use the rigging tools as well as the biped as well as some Gear. The Maya ones I have on my research radar so far are: abAutoRig Advanced skeleton Human IK Mgear Kind regards, Jon On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:27 PM, David Gallagher <davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com<mailto:davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 3/27/2014 5:21 PM, Jon Hunt wrote: My chat today was very constructive and supportive. I would certainly request that if you haven't already, contact Maurice and he can put you in touch with the best channels. It's far from rosie as I have a lot of retraining in a short space of time and a lot of equivalents to find/discover that they don't exist. If there are any educators that already have Maya in their syllabus that can offer some advice I would be grateful. Thanks. We teach in Maya (with some support for Softimage, that is now winding down.) Do you have any specific question? Kind regards, Jon On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:38 PM, David Gallagher <davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com<mailto:davegsoftimagel...@gmail.com>> wrote: Oh, that's good. The educational side of this debacle was perhaps handled the worst. On 3/27/2014 4:03 PM, Jon Hunt wrote: Hi David, I had a Skype call today from a chap from autodesk where it was confirmed from the feedback they have received, the free student versions shall be offered for another year (timeframe - iirc it was a year) to aid migration of the education community. I have certainly found this useful in our plans J On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jason S <jasonsta...@gmail.com<mailto:jasonsta...@gmail.com>> wrote: Yet I'm sure that a number of positive silver linings would come out of this in coming versions of Maya, Cheers On 03/27/14 16:36, Jason S wrote: Nad Center in Montreal is also hit pretty hard.. (among many) The thought of where XSI7 was heading, in that sense I can undestand what may have motivated the measures taken in consequence. Typical sentiment in Area Forum back then << .. with programs like Houdini and XSI 7 (with ICE) gaining a lot of ground in the development arena, is Autodesk actually taking a hard look at Maya and making it more stable while providing new features? The underlying theme I get from people on forums is if Maya 2009 doesn't deliver or Autodesk doesn't lay out some sort of roadmap worthy of sticking around, people will in fact jump to XSI or Houdini. Makes me wonder where XSI would be today, had it not been subject to Laws of the Jungle. I'm sure Maya would have been very much (if not more) alive & well... as well.. (having more reasons to keep-up) On 03/27/14 15:32, David Gallagher wrote: Hello! We will begin to remove Softimage assignment options, unfortunately, as it appears the students will no longer be able to download a student version, and we would be unwise to promote it for their sakes. We will continue to offer our more advanced rigs in Softimage to the animation students who may already have it, and our free, public rigs as well. I will continue to show Softimage's amazing capabilities to our students in my extra help sessions with the students. Thanks for the compliment! Dave G <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. 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