As I said, mine is my personal take on it. For you it might be an option to keep investing time and efforts in a software for which new seats can't be bought any longer, for me it's not an option.
Out of respect for those working around me, and for the people I have to provide for, it's important to me that what I have can keep generating income for me. Being a Softimage Rockstar, given my preferred field and role of employment, has absolutely zero value. If you provide content to other parties and you can work with whatever tools, great for you. I provide expertise, services, development, and a number of other things, all of which rely heavily on my efforts being marketable in relation to the platforms I use, or can develop with and for. Softimage has left the map last month for those that have necessities and methods of operation similar to mine, and no amount of sentimentalism or bloody minded stubbornness will change that. We all have different priorities, I don't pretend I can understand yours, and even less have any interest in dictating them, but please don't assume my statement is uninformed or defeatist. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com>wrote: > Actually I disagree with "Sadly, I have to accept that experience isn't > coming back any time soon, if ever." > I;m more towards "that experience haven;t left anywhere at all" > Softimage is till here and there to stay until there is something better. > Guys, it won;t stop working, noone is gonna uninstall it from your drive > and it work same way as it worked yesterday. > I really don't get that immediate feeling of loss. It is huge loss for > time to come but not right now. > If factory that made your hammer you have at home stopped working and > making new ones, no one is gonna take your hammer, and the rest of > tools..... > Diversify, learn new tools see what is out there that is always good > thing. But use what works for you right now :) > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Sadly, I have to accept that experience isn't coming back any time soon, >> if ever. >> >> Currently Maya is the one that involves the least problems with >> animators, and it has OK rigging facilities and is expansible enough to >> cover what gaps are left. >> If you want any agility using it you pretty much have to put a ton of dev >> work into it front-loaded, or cope with a few plugins and pray they don't >> get discontinued (because unlike Soft every major version they will need to >> be recompiled). >> >> Performance is on the high end of single threading, but abysmal on the >> multi-threaded side of things. Nodes are actually quite easy to write, and >> usually not unpleasant, but again a major pain in the arse to thread out >> properly, which makes Splice an almost necessary companion for it in my >> eyes. >> >> So currently the only option is more or less to move to Maya if you can't >> afford proprietary (tons of it), and clench your teeth in hope H-Maya won't >> fondle camel balls, and rely on Fabric for performance and hope they >> deliver on atomic primitives in place of Autodesk some time soon. >> >> That's, obviously enough, a personal take on it. It's not even AL's take >> on it, don't think what I think or say has any reflection on what my >> employer does, please :) >> >> The scope, quality, quantity and type of work one does can swing that in >> any direction. Given I work (and therefore am interested in maintaining or >> evolving expertise) on either feature animation movies or creature work for >> live action ones large teams of animators and the ability to scale staff >> promptly are staples, and my choices are restricted, someone else might be >> in a better situation, someone else in a worse one. >> Soft was the perfect storm for the work I do. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:20 AM, David Saber <davidsa...@sfr.fr> wrote: >> >>> OK Raf, so what are the options left? What would you do? >>> David >>> >>> >>> On 2014-03-31 14:44, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: >>> >>>> Maya and Houdini simply don't provide that experience, and their >>>> learning curve to reach that level of fluidity is measured in years, while >>>> with Soft we had people who never used it literally flying around within a >>>> month. >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it >> and let them flee like the dogs they are! >> > > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
