We work in teams of 3 Students. With our 3D lecturer being the producer. The students have been given responsibility over either art direction, technical direction or animation (although they will work in all areas where needed). I am there to help on pipeline , lighting and rendering and mostly when the shit hits the fan ;) The team strengths shift from year to year but we try and keep them as balanced as we can. We also try and encourage to really push what they are good at. This was very easy under Softimage as you didn’t spend half your time trouble shooting ;(
From: Sebastien Sterling <sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com<mailto:sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>" <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>> Date: Tuesday 29 July 2014 at 11:25 AM To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>" <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>> Subject: Re: Softimage is not EOL Do your kids work in teams Angus or as one man enterprises ? cause SI is great for singles but if you are going to have to teach them maya... best take a leaf out of the french schools book, e.g goblin supinfocom or ESMA. typically the kids coordinate of into groups each bringing their interests to the table, rigging or art direction or animation, it's a pain in the ass to keep things balanced, and i suspect it confines there learning to specific areas instead of a generalized approach of the workflow, but let's be honest there is no such thing as a maya generalist. i mean that you might be able to do all the things, but maya jobs seem very much to be need specific, so a modeller or a renderer, or a rigger. On 29 July 2014 08:40, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za<mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za>> wrote: Unfortunately for Education that EOL moniker is very much the kiss of death. While businesses can use SI until its pried from their cold dead fingers, we would never get any students for courses that teach EOL software. No Matter how superior it may be to the alternatives. In fact just to show you how skewed the reality it creates is we have to teach maya going forward until another software has sufficient market share to allow us to switch. Currently we are looking at that being Modo and roughly 2-3 years before we can switch. We had finally built up momentum to the point where we could enter international competitions and actually get placed by batting well above our average with SI. Now we will loose all of that with Maya. Friggen heartbreaking. 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. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. <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. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
