LOL
> On Jul 9, 2015, at 12:48, Kevin mc bride <kev....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> that's the best advert i have seen for the foundry so far....
>
> On 9 July 2015 at 11:13, Stephan Haitz <sha...@3d-agenten.de
> <mailto:sha...@3d-agenten.de>> wrote:
> I asume it will probably work for Autodesk as it is a similar story with
> Adobe. Nobody liked the renting thing but now most of the people play the
> game.
>
> Little difference: there are a few 3D-Apps around, which are not Audodesk to
> which one can take a sidestep...
>
> Welcome in the club of Betatesters, where you can´t be sure something´s
> working this month will also work in the next month/softwareversion. So my
> Adobe experience.
>
> Am 09.07.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Simon Reeves:
> That chap looked confused after waking up on the sofa
>
>
>
> Simon Reeves
> London, UK
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>
> On 9 July 2015 at 09:08, <pete...@skynet.be <mailto:pete...@skynet.be>> wrote:
>
> industry standard 3d software – that’s so mental ray.
> right about when they started promoting it as industry standard,
> development froze in it’s tracks.
> perhaps if every marketeer at Adsk was replaced with a developer, they
> might have a future.
>
> and what’s with all the guitars?
>
> oh my, this is wrong on so many levels – whoever commissioned and approved
> this should get flayed.
>
> *From:* Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com <mailto:3dv...@gmail.com>>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2015 9:19 AM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
> *Subject:* Re: Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya!
>
>
> Agree with Mirko,
> This is an experiment to see if they can get away with it...
> If the hipster guy had a shirt with XSI logo that video would be
> absolutely perfect.
>
> Not sure what is the situation in your countries, but I rarely see
> freelancers this calm, cool, with the headphones and smelly t-shirt...did
> they watch How I met your Mother and saw that the high five is what the
> cool kids do nowdays?
> Or they hired Richard Linklater to really see what the youth is all about?
>
> Jesus ADSK Jesus!
>
> 2015-07-09 7:22 GMT+02:00 Stephen Davidson <magic...@bellsouth.net
> <mailto:magic...@bellsouth.net>>:
>
> I find it amazing that marketing is so out of touch with their target
> audience ...
> "$125 / month ... that's maybe an hour of your time?"
>
> Are there any freelance 3D animators out there that get
> $125 / hour? Maybe I'm out of touch...maybe 10 years ago.
>
> I will be using Softimage, with Redshift 3D, till I change careers.
>
> Not buying , or renting, anything else. Sorry.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:32 AM Mirko Jankovic <
> mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com <mailto:mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> This all is just big social experiment... let's see how much ppl can
> take.. how stupid they are, how much we can shovel down the throat without
> rebelling.
>
> Stop buying AD crap, lets see how long will they keep Maya and Max
> then,, what is the limit of income they are willing to "push 3d industry
> forward, be innovative and help artists give us their mo.. *cough* do their
> job"...
> Fing marketing ppl that has no idea about target audience at all.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Scott Parrish <scotte...@gmail.com
> <mailto:scotte...@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> "Sell one seat to a company for lets say 1500$ per year with a chance
> to update of 50%. Or sell twelve seats for 125$ each to freelancers and the
> probability of selling updates is much higher."
>
> Starting next year companies will no longer be able to obtain new
> permanent licenses either.
> It will all be subscription based. Count on the incentives showing up
> to swap your permanent licenses to monthly or annual subscriptions, and
> more than likely for support of permanent licenses to go away.
>
> I find the ad insulting on many levels. There is the fact that it may
> as well be a marketing campaign for mens casual clothing. It is a generic
> ad campaign for Product as Lifestyle. All of the imagery is of people doing
> cool stuff that cool people do.. no 3d.. no work. The video following the
> guy with vacant bloodshot eyes (arguably the only authentic part of the
> video) around his day being a cool guy involves about 5% of him tumbling
> and pondering a mesh before getting back to his cool guy duties like being
> dressed good for the MUNI bus and the club.
>
> This feels very idiocracy-like and I think strongly reflects on the
> people making decisions at Autodesk. I do not want to give these people
> money and this is one of the bigger motivations I've had to pursue Fabric,
> Houdini and Modo and transition away from Maya.
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Sven Constable <
> sixsi_l...@imagefront.de <mailto:sixsi_l...@imagefront.de>> wrote:
>
> This video insists that freelancers should take the cost of software
> licensing instead of the companies they are working for. To me it looks
> like ADSK starts to shift business to starving freelancers because they
> didn’t succeed on forcing companies to go subscription. Makes sense busines
> wise, because freelancers want to stay current with the software even it
> has no real production value. Freelancers want to stay current because they
> think no one will here them otherwise.
>
> Sell one seat to a company for lets say 1500$ per year with a chance
> to update of 50%. Or sell twelve seats for 125$ each to freelancers and the
> probability of selling updates is much higher.
>
>
>
> sven
>
>
>
> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
> <mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [
> mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
> <mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>
> <softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
> <mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>>] *On Behalf Of *Scott
> Parrish
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2015 12:35 AM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
> *Subject:* Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya!
>
>
>
> Anybody see this today?
>
> Barf!
>
>
>
> http://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/your-life-maya
> <http://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/your-life-maya>
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