Re: Ensuing Chaos

2014-03-04 Thread Alastair Hearsum
Love the software and its nice light grey interface. The problem we would have as a company is freelancers. We gear up and down depending on the project and if its difficult to find freelancers, because they're a dwindling resource, then that's a problem. The major educational establishments

RE: Softimage Devs petition

2014-03-04 Thread Sven Constable
For 1) and 2)... I dont think 2015 will be the last version, ha! 3) Softimage|3D 4.082 MB Softimage XSI 4.0 173 MB Softimage XSI 5.11 367 MB Softimage XSI 6.0 399 MB Softimage XSI 6.5 437 MB Softimage XSI 7.01 505

Re: OT: TDToolmaker looking for work

2014-03-04 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Hey Leonard have you checked Animal Logics website ? http://www.animallogic.com/Careers/Jobs they seem to be gearing up, and are looking for lots of people. good luck ! On 4 March 2014 08:43, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com wrote: Hey List, I hope you guys don't mind a post like this

Re: Render Tree Crash

2014-03-04 Thread olivier jeannel
Ok, Problem : For a Quadro 4000 the suggested driver is 295.73 As mentionned here : http://www.nvidia.fr/object/quadro-certified-drivers.html#partner_id=11application_id=94page=driverSelected seems old old thing. I don't think it's even compatible with Redshift. Suggestion ? Le 04/03/2014

RE: Render Tree Crash

2014-03-04 Thread Sven Constable
I always take the 'performance driver'. I have the current 332.50 version installed without problems (running a quadro4000 too) -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of olivier jeannel Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Ensuing Chaos

2014-03-04 Thread nick name
Does anyone know on what website will any announcement be made, Area or autodesk.com? On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.ukwrote: Love the software and its nice light grey interface. The problem we would have as a company is freelancers. We gear up and

Re: Ensuing Chaos

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen Blair
As is now pretty much standard, a reseller will post it first. Maybe like this: http://www.jigsaw24.com/news/news/11949-autodesk-softimages-retirement-what-you-need-to-know/ On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:38 AM, nick name creator3dstu...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know on what website will any

Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Sofronis Efstathiou
Was it announced - been in lectures all morning? Arse http://www.jigsaw24.com/news/news/11949-autodesk-softimages-retirement-what-you-need-to-know/ Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread nick name
The future is bright. Not for XSI users, obviously. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Sofronis Efstathiou sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk wrote: Was it announced - been in lectures all morning? Arse

Re: Ensuing Chaos

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
so here is also official FUCK YOU autodesk and good bye. lying to customers for the past couple years, can't call it anything else but that. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: As is now pretty much standard, a reseller will post it first. Maybe like

Re: Render Tree Crash

2014-03-04 Thread olivier jeannel
Following your advice, I took Performance Pilot (Not the 3ds nor the Autocad) 332.5 and problems are GONE ! I'll let you know if something bad happen. Thank's a lot all for sharing experiences ! Le 04/03/2014 11:46, Sven Constable a écrit : I always take the 'performance driver'. I have the

Re: Ensuing Chaos

2014-03-04 Thread Jordi Bares
Is this a hoax? Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 4 Mar 2014, at 11:45, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote: As is now pretty much standard, a reseller will post it first. Maybe like this:

Re: Ensuing Chaos

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
hoax was when they bough it at the first place. I still remember chill I've got down my spine the moment I saw that they bought it.. it was fully proven to be correct predicament On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a hoax? Jordi Bares

RE: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Sofronis Efstathiou
I can't believe Jigsaw broke the news... Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Email: sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.ukmailto:sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1202

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Ben Beckett
Houdini On 4 March 2014 11:55, nick name creator3dstu...@gmail.com wrote: The future is bright. Not for XSI users, obviously. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Sofronis Efstathiou sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk wrote: Was it announced - been in lectures all morning? Arse

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Artur Woźniak
Yep, ok, but how many houses uses Houdini as they would use SI? What we looking at is Maya ... nothing, 3ds Max, ... ? Maybe Cinema4D, Artur Woźniak https://vimeo.com/83506156 https://vimeo.com/user3560131/videos 2014-03-04 13:03 GMT+01:00 Ben

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Actually we are looking at Softimage in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and at least 2018 and more.. better then those other two Frankenstein dinosaurs of software. Till 2020 ther will either be world warr III so none will care about software at all or something will show on market. Autodesk is crap

Re: OT: TDToolmaker looking for work

2014-03-04 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Other way around, sorry. The fact all departments have expression of interest means we're not hiring additional staff for anything right now, just accepting submissions to our internal database for future hiring. Mind, of you fancy Australia definitely start registering one, but I doubt we'll be

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Jason S
On 03/04/14 7:07, Artur Woźniak wrote: Yep, ok, but how many houses uses Houdini as they would use SI? What we looking at is Maya ... nothing, 3ds Max, ... ? Maybe Cinema4D,  Artur Woźniak   https://vimeo.com/83506156

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Simon Reeves
While I am able to stay in my current position at this nice small company, I'm not going to switch to another autodesk product when *I feel the need*to switch. Although I don't see that for a while either unless suddenly development of renderers stop. But I might start to have a look at

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Live long and prosper! at least they won't make it worse anymore plus all that nice budget to direct to plugins and renderers. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/04/14 7:07, Artur Woźniak wrote: Yep, ok, but how many houses uses Houdini as they

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Daniel Sweeney
So they have spoken. Slow transition to another DCC then it is. I will use soft for as long as possible, But time to get the thinking hat on. What is everyone thinking of going too? I am going to look into modo for my own work I think but will probably need to know a bit about maya for freelance

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread John Clausing
It also says support till April 2016 As for me, as a freelancer, gotta go Maya. But I'm going to learn Modo and Houdini Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Daniel Sweeney dan...@northforge.co.uk wrote: So they have spoken. Slow transition to another DCC then it is. I will use

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Maurício PC
I just hope companies don't change to anything AD. Freelancers have to learn whatever a job asks for, but a company can choose it's way of working. So please ... no more money for AD, they don't deserve it. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:24 AM, John Clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com wrote: It also

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Max Evgrafov
managers of AD are scoundrels. they will burn in hell 2014-03-04 16:24 GMT+04:00 John Clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com: It also says support till April 2016 As for me, as a freelancer, gotta go Maya. But I'm going to learn Modo and Houdini Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:22 AM,

Re: OT: TDToolmaker looking for work

2014-03-04 Thread Leonard Koch
Thanks for clearing that up Raffaele I thought as much when I took a look at it. On Mar 4, 2014 1:13 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Other way around, sorry. The fact all departments have expression of interest means we're not hiring additional staff for anything right

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Martin Contel
A sad day indeed. :_( I'm still grateful to Jordi Bares for introducing me to XSI 10 years ago. It showed me how wrong Maya was. My current company uses Maya but I still use Softimage for modeling and UV stuff daily. I don't know what my next tool will be, but I will not stick to Maya for sure:

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Max Evgrafov
it is impossible to forgive AD 2014-03-04 16:33 GMT+04:00 Max Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com: managers of AD are scoundrels. they will burn in hell 2014-03-04 16:24 GMT+04:00 John Clausing jclausin...@yahoo.com: It also says support till April 2016 As for me, as a freelancer, gotta go

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Cristobal Infante
Linked removed from Jigsaw, even though they even tweeted about it? weird enough. Sad day guys, best of luck to everyone.. On 4 March 2014 12:39, Max Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com wrote: it is impossible to forgive AD 2014-03-04 16:33 GMT+04:00 Max Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com: managers of

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Simon Reeves
True to a degree, but think of all the freelancers right now using softimage, working at a company where there might be some people using maya, and knowing all the jobs out there for maya, it's likely they would just pick up maya and give it a go and eventually, everyone is maya Somewhere like

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
http://www.jigsaw24.com/news/news/11949-autodesk-softimages-retirement-what-you-need-to-know/ taken page down.. who was a bit premature On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Max Evgrafov summ...@gmail.com wrote: it is impossible to forgive AD 2014-03-04 16:33 GMT+04:00 Max Evgrafov

Re: OT: TDToolmaker looking for work

2014-03-04 Thread Sebastien Sterling
My mistake then, I thought this might be prevision of a project. On 4 March 2014 12:35, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for clearing that up Raffaele I thought as much when I took a look at it. On Mar 4, 2014 1:13 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Thivierge
3pm EST today folks... stay tuned.. On Tuesday, March 04, 2014 7:41:19 AM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: http://www.jigsaw24.com/news/news/11949-autodesk-softimages-retirement-what-you-need-to-know/ taken page down.. who was a bit premature On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Max Evgrafov

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Maurício PC
Hey Eric, Since the jigsaw article said Softimage will be around until 2016 (when it finally stops on AD side), I do hope that you guys can change to something no AD a all. Giving them money after what they've done has to be a no-go. But I understand that you guys need to change for what will

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Thivierge
Just an FYI, all my opinions are my own and not of Hybride. We still have many many internal conversations yet to come to decide on our path. I've voiced my opinion enough about where I think we should go and I'm sticking to my guns. I dislike AD as much as the next person, but making a

CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
Because I know how modest everyone over at Glassworks is and that it wouldn't occur to anyone to share this, I'll go and do it myself! http://www.glassworks.co.uk/news/how-we-made-freeviews-catandbudgie Be sure to watch the making-of video! Amazing work from all involved! It's poignant at this

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Paul Griswold
They released their profit loss statement last night. I'm pretty sure it showed ADSK as a whole had a 27% drop from the previous year. Personally I don't plan on supporting them financially at all from now on. And I will do my best to discourage anyone I know from buying any ADSK products.

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Sad...very sad... Well...I guess I'll start to have a look at Maya Thanks for the big middle finger Autodesk, very classy 2014-03-04 13:49 GMT+01:00 Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com: 3pm EST today folks... stay tuned.. On Tuesday, March 04, 2014 7:41:19 AM, Mirko Jankovic wrote:

Re: OT: TDToolmaker looking for work

2014-03-04 Thread Leonard Koch
It's the thought that counts. Thank you Sebastien. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: My mistake then, I thought this might be prevision of a project. On 4 March 2014 12:35, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Maurício PC
I know that Eric, I was just curious. I always dreamed of one day to work with Softimage in a big studio. Guess that's over now. I've played with Maya, I've just started a workshop with Allan McKay on FumeFX, so that's not to say I hate 3ds Max or Maya, but I do hate Autodesk and if I get the

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
just a trim...

RE: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Sven Constable
Beeing a small one man company, rarely doing freelance work at other companys anymore, I'll stay with softimage until I'll die:) I will update to the latest version, be it 2015 or whatever and I will be very happy for the next ten years. For the 3dsmax and maya users, it's not an ideal

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Maurício PC
That's some amazing work Dan. Congrats to all you guys, really impressive. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Because I know how modest everyone over at Glassworks is and that it wouldn't occur to anyone to share this, I'll go and do it myself!

Re: OT: TDToolmaker looking for work

2014-03-04 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
We do have projects running, and should have more slated, but nothing being hired for yet. However, for anybody interested in the long term DO submit the expression of interest. AL has a strict no poaching policy and tends to play strictly by the book, so they can't contact everybody willy nilly

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
Awesome, the cannery is mindbogglingly good. Congrats. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Maurício PC goneba...@gmail.com wrote: That's some amazing work Dan. Congrats to all you guys, really impressive. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Because I know

RE: Retirement.

2014-03-04 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Seriously? Modeling with Maya or Max is like making love with a cheese grinder. Painful, no joy, just when you finished. That is Autodesk then. Hate it forever! Hate it forever! From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sven

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Jens Lindgren
So lets assume the last version of Softimage will probably be Softimage 2016 SP1 then. That's two more years of development! Lets make those two years count and really try to push the dev team to invest their time into what really counts: Polish badly implemented features, fixing bugs and open up

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
I should point out that I did not work on this! I'm just sharing... :) On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome, the cannery is mindbogglingly good. Congrats. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Maurício PC goneba...@gmail.com wrote: That's some

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Considering the latest update of Soft 2014 I wonder if they will just release bug fixes If they'll open up the API/SDK maybe would be the last gift that AD will give us...but I strongly doubt it... 2014-03-04 14:09 GMT+01:00 Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com: So lets assume the last

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Peter Agg
I'm reading that as in 2015 is the last version, but I imagine that they're required to keep it usable for 2 years. On 4 March 2014 13:09, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: So lets assume the last version of Softimage will probably be Softimage 2016 SP1 then. That's two more

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Simon Reeves
great stuff as usual Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 4 March 2014 13:15, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: I should point out that I did not

RE: Retirement.

2014-03-04 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Just finished the final moves that we completely switched to Softimage. The best tool for modeling, having an awesome non-destructive modeling system, having versatile scripting system, and one of the best scene structure (groups, model nodes), and now we are forced to use some mediocre piece

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
hmm access denied? On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com wrote: great stuff as usual Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Jens Lindgren
Yeah you might be right in that 2015 will be the last feature version. We'll just have to see. But I really hope that they will be working on bug fixes for the whole of two years then and not just sit around waiting on the Support Phone to ring. /Jens On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Peter Agg

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
You can still watch the making-of video here: http://www.glassworks.co.uk/under-hood On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:28 PM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.comwrote: im getting access denied in multiple browsers anyone? a -- *From:*

RE: Retirement.

2014-03-04 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Obviously I move to Maya, because I want to work in the industry few more years. Max is crap, I can work with that, too, but c’mon. There were almost nothing I couldn’t do with Softimage, faster than any other Maya or Max artist here. And I will embrace modo too, modeling is quite cool in modo,

Re: Rigging Reel 2013

2014-03-04 Thread Edy Susanto Lim
Looks great Cesar. Good luck with the job hunt ;) On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: Great work! Congratulations! 2014-03-03 10:03 GMT-06:00 Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com: Clean design and great results. Nicely done! -=Eric Turman On Mon,

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Alastair Hearsum
We've been asked to take it down for some reason. Hopefully we'll get it back up soon Alastair Hearsum Head of 3d GLASSWORKS 33/34 Great Pulteney Street London W1F 9NP +44 (0)20 7434 1182 glassworks.co.uk http://www.glassworks.co.uk/ Glassworks Terms and Conditions of Sale can be found at

Re: Rigging Reel 2013

2014-03-04 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Really cool ! On 4 March 2014 14:17, Edy Susanto Lim edysusant...@gmail.com wrote: Looks great Cesar. Good luck with the job hunt ;) On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.comwrote: Great work! Congratulations! 2014-03-03 10:03 GMT-06:00 Eric Turman

RE: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread adrian wyer
https://twitter.com/autodesk/status/440851164343828480 hehehe cry Havok.. _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jens Lindgren Sent: 04 March 2014 13:28 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re:

Re: CG Cat's face and Budgie by Glassworks.

2014-03-04 Thread Edy Susanto Lim
same one https://vimeo.com/87084920? Amazing work guys... Anything with feathers always caught my eyes :P -edy On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.ukwrote: We've been asked to take it down for some reason. Hopefully we'll get it back up soon

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Dates
Yeah, I expect tons of these... http://cgmemes.blogspot.com/2014/03/autodesk-you-c.html and http://cgmemes.blogspot.com/2014/03/softimage-sniffle.html On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Oscar Juarez
That went sad by the end! On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jeffrey Dates jda...@kungfukoi.com wrote: Yeah, I expect tons of these... http://cgmemes.blogspot.com/2014/03/autodesk-you-c.html and http://cgmemes.blogspot.com/2014/03/softimage-sniffle.html On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:28 AM,

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Francisco Criado
I don'believe is true, Autodesk on its site didnt change anything, ssoftimage is still abailable. Please stop publishing this kind of stuff, i'ts almost a week about people talking and speculating about softimage's end. If you want to talk about it go to a geek gossip forum or maya's forum. This

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Jason S
Apart how slipping the rug under an entire community, can be off the charts in terms of "wrongness" in most people's book, it's also still mostly unanimous among anyone having used XSI, that the (quote) "workflow" or "overall intuitiveness" or "friendlyness" remains (objectively)

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Thivierge
You can not believe it is true all you want. Writing is on the wall and the various posts this past week being more real than any others should jog your vision. If it's not just wait until the end of the day and you'll have your confirmation. Also it's now not just a couple of users if you

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread pedro santos
Ah the View Cube shows up yet again xD On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Oscar Juarez tridi.animei...@gmail.comwrote: That went sad by the end! On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jeffrey Dates jda...@kungfukoi.comwrote: Yeah, I expect tons of these...

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Mirko Jankovic
no one from AD dare to show their name anywhere as they know that they will get thrown with rotten stuff and even worse as soon as they try to say anything at all. there is no marketing guru or PR wizard that can sugar coat this. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Eric Thivierge

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Thivierge
Sure, but with their absence, it is a confirmation of its own. On Tuesday, March 04, 2014 9:58:28 AM, Mirko Jankovic wrote: no one from AD dare to show their name anywhere as they know that they will get thrown with rotten stuff and even worse as soon as they try to say anything at all. there

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Francisco Criado
f**k autodesk, f**k the police. http://youtu.be/Cxuj_xjevTY F. On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com wrote: no one from AD dare to show their name anywhere as they know that they will get thrown with rotten stuff and even worse as soon as they try to say

Re: Maya Questions: Ref Models/Resolutions in Soft vs. Ref Scenes/Assets/Assemblies in Maya

2014-03-04 Thread Lawrence Nimrichter
Very nice! Thanks You!!! On Mar 3, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: In Maya, file referencing is handled via namespace: nodes are prefixed with a colon indicating their namespace. For example, a node with parentNamespace:nodeName indicates that it belongs to the

RE: Retirement.

2014-03-04 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
+1 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Emilio Hernandez Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 4:25 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Retirement. [http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8965/erojamailpleca.jpg]

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Arvid Björn
That was truly depressing. I was nodding in agreement, but I didn't smile. =/ The 2 pieces of software that I've truly enjoyed working with, Shake and Soft, both buried by suits trying to cover their asses. How can you own something, yet be unable to appreciate its value? Surely there must be a

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Jason S
Please lets remind ourselves that however bad a situation may be, that **Free bitching** can only grossely exacerbate what can be of that already bad situation. On 03/04/14 10:02, Francisco Criado wrote: f**k autodesk, f**k the police. http://youtu.be/Cxuj_xjevTY F. On Tuesday, March 4,

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Francisco Criado
Ed, i'm having a constant loop here ;) F. On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Stage 1 lasted nearly 5 years. It's only natural to spend a few days in stage 2. The stages, popularly known by the acronym *DABDA*,

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Dan Yargici
E, can you stop doing this now Emilio, it's really annoying... On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: 2014-03-04 9:30 GMT-06:00 Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com: That was truly depressing. I was nodding in agreement, but I didn't smile. =/ The 2

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Max Evgrafov
sadness is that AD is a monopoly now. ;-) This is bad not only for users of xsi 2014-03-04 19:41 GMT+04:00 Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com: Ed, i'm having a constant loop here ;) F. On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Ed Manning etmth...@gmail.com wrote: Stage 1 lasted nearly 5 years.

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Ahmed Barakat
an old softimage 3d testimonial video featuring lots of london's old timers from various studios including a young Kim Aldis :), https://vimeo.com/21515771 On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.comwrote: Ed, i'm having a constant loop here ;) F. On Tuesday,

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Luca!!!!
2.5. *Fucking in the ass with a cactus the first AD suit who's been involved in the Softimage ending *— Hey, man. Look at what I got for you. Yeah, its a cactus and I'm one of the guys using Softimage that your're doomed to struggle again in weeks for doing what I already was doing before with

RE: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Angus Davidson
Ita a good thing they never harnessed the Softimage communities creativity to build war machines. Would be a very one sided conflict. From: Luca [superposit...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 March 2014 05:57 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re:

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Emilio Hernandez
What is really annoying is that we complain, and complain and do nothing about it really. Some of us have the chance to stick with Softimage forever until something really better comes out. Some of us in the need of no finding jobs will have to switch to Maya for a serious film work studio for

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Jason S
Emilo? Luca? A -*-properly channeled civil-*- stage 2 can go a long way in terms of invoking change. (the opposite of civil doing quite the opposite, especially in more public forums) Also found this sort-of ironic from the jigsaw release, which did heighten my own stage 2 concerning the

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Christopher Crouzet
While we're there, can you please remove your massive signature too? It's both poorly designed (big images, text difficult to read) and annoying. If you were trying to give a professional look to your email with those, it's a miss, sorry. On 4 March 2014 10:54, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Christopher Crouzet
Wow, I wouldn't like to be you. Life sounds hard when all of it seems to gravitate around a software. Good luck! On 4 March 2014 11:04, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: What is really annoying is that we complain, and complain and do nothing about it really. Some of us have the

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Emilio Hernandez
I respect your point of view. 2014-03-04 10:07 GMT-06:00 Christopher Crouzet christopher.crou...@gmail.com: While we're there, can you please remove your massive signature too? It's both poorly designed (big images, text difficult to read) and annoying. If you were trying to give a

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Good thing is that we all are different. Don't you think? 2014-03-04 10:10 GMT-06:00 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: I respect your point of view. 2014-03-04 10:07 GMT-06:00 Christopher Crouzet christopher.crou...@gmail.com: While we're there, can you please remove your massive

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Francisco Criado
Jason, maybe autodesk is leaving those 2 insanely applications and put their afforts on getting better products until... they realize they only needed only one profesional software, oh, ups, we buried it in 2014, which has the name? ah softimage. On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Emilio Hernandez

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Christopher Crouzet
Indeed! :) Thanks for removing the signature! On 4 March 2014 11:12, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: Good thing is that we all are different. Don't you think? 2014-03-04 10:10 GMT-06:00 Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: I respect your point of view. 2014-03-04 10:07

another link about Softimage's demise

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen Davidson
http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/03/autodesk-to-retire-softimage/ -- Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson* *(954) 552-7956*sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* - Arthur C. Clarke http://www.3danimationmagic.com

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Emilio Hernandez
You are welcome. 2014-03-04 10:15 GMT-06:00 Christopher Crouzet christopher.crou...@gmail.com: Indeed! :) Thanks for removing the signature! On 4 March 2014 11:12, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: Good thing is that we all are different. Don't you think? 2014-03-04

RE: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread adrian wyer
every time that video pops up, Dave sits next to me with his head in his hands. hehehe a _ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ahmed Barakat Sent: 04 March 2014 15:56 To:

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Rares Halmagean
I think someone just got schooled on grace. Please stick to the subject of this thread and not resort to singling out individuals for sniping. On 3/4/2014 10:17 AM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: You are welcome. 2014-03-04 10:15 GMT-06:00 Christopher Crouzet christopher.crou...@gmail.com

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Doeke Wartena
They should have included a free version for maya and max users years ago. That way the might have could sink another boat by now. I will switch in 2 years to modo or houdini. Sad softimage was sold to satan. 2014-03-04 17:24 GMT+01:00 Daniel H vfxc...@gmail.com: Ok Ed. This is the stage I'm

Re: I'm sure this is one of many...

2014-03-04 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Yes you are right. I haven't noticed it until Christopher pointed it out. 2014-03-04 10:25 GMT-06:00 Lawrence Nimrichter xsiuse...@gmail.com: I thank you too. As far the list goes, Its easier in my opinion to scroll through all the emails without large Signature attachments jumping out at

caught in a lie...

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen Davidson
http://www.cgchannel.com/2012/09/autodesk-denies-intent-to-kill-off-3ds-max-softimage/ -- Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson* *(954) 552-7956*sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* - Arthur C. Clarke

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Francisco Criado
LOL On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Daniel H vfxc...@gmail.com wrote: Ok Ed. This is the stage I'm at. 10 LET denial = 1 20 LET anger = 0 30 GOTO 40 40 IF denial = 1 THEN GOTO 50 50 LET anger = anger + 1 60 PRINT HATE, HATE, HATE, BUT LOATHE AUTODESK ENTIRELY! 70 PRINT anger 80 IF anger = 1

Re: Retirement.....

2014-03-04 Thread Enrique Caballero
hopefully you all will stick around on this list, or move as a group. as I've grown to rely on this mailing list whenever I've had trouble or needed some advice. I don't think I could match this community if i tried. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Doeke Wartena clankil...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Softimage transition audience poll

2014-03-04 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hey Alan you are missing the option Screw Autodesk I will stay with Softimage until I believe there is something better. So I didn't vote. Cheers! 2014-03-04 10:37 GMT-06:00 Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com: I've set up a poll out of curiosity... *Where will you transition to when

Re: Softimage transition audience poll

2014-03-04 Thread Mathias N
No option for sticking with Softimage till the end? On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I've set up a poll out of curiosity... *Where will you transition to when Softimage falls?* Vote! http://strawpoll.me/1257710 (Multiple-choice allowed btw.)

Softimage transition audience poll

2014-03-04 Thread Alan Fregtman
I've set up a poll out of curiosity... *Where will you transition to when Softimage falls?* Vote! http://strawpoll.me/1257710 (Multiple-choice allowed btw.)

  1   2   3   4   >