That's so totally right!!! On 27 May 2016 at 22:36, Matt Lind <speye...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> When Daniel Langlois ran the company, the customer facing element was very > design and artist centric. It spoke to the end user. Daniel was selling > inspiration, a vision. > > When Microsoft entered the picture, they threw money at it to make it more > visible and accessible with the peak being around the time of the photo you > reference. When Daniel Langlois left the company and Microsoft later sold > it to Avid, there was a noticeable shift in personality transitioning to > more of an engineering focus with attention to user friendliness and > corporate like global branding. The company didn't speak through it's > leader's vision anymore, but instead through the face of it's products > which > didn't have a central voice. Sumatra was still being sold on inspiration, > but Daniel wasn't around anymore to push the message. > > In some ways, Daniel Langlois' Softimage was just like Steve Jobs' Apple. > When you bought from Apple, you were buying Steve Jobs' visions and being > inspired by him, and that momentum carried you to the purchase. Today > Apple > still exists and sells really well, but it speaks through it's products and > it's products don't have that same inspirational connection they had when > Steve Jobs was around to push them. > > > Matt > > > > Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 11:07:39 -0500 > From: Pierre Schiller <activemotionpictu...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #274 > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > > How much is that Sotimage ICE shop bag again? > Alienware logo-like in picture #52 ( I meant). Were we even that far ahead > in the future, back then? > OMM (Oh my Mind) Eisner?s original book (that?s like looking Illusion of > Iife back in the 60?s original print)! > > My mind, come to think of this, this merchandise was so powerful to sell > XSI (I came into it in 2k) that > I can?t even imagine what could?ve come of XSI with this branding if it > kept flowing into the stores and specialized 3d magazines... > > Oh wait..I know I can imagine, that?s why japan and Konami made a big name > for Softimage! > -Seeing this on America, AD (and > low-rate-configure-it-yourself-crazy-crashing-in-sales-competitor-software) > wasn?t getting the love > it thought it deserved, and then...yeah, let?s close Softimage division.... > these softimagers really know how to be > catchy and stylized, that can get our > > never-updated-from-the-ground-up-lets-keep-patching-software-for-another14-years > 3d-package) look bad.. > > There, I let it out. > > Cheers. > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk www.dot3d.com
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