Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

2014-03-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Bugger! That last mail was supposed to be private. Apologies in advance if anybody finds it out of line, particularly to Sam. Doesn't read all that bad, nor was it meant to, but still, I was in another Mailing List's mode (default is to reply to poster, not to list) and sent it to an ever so

Re: Headus UV Layout

2014-03-10 Thread Daniel Sweeney
What I have seen of modo tool for UV work look very good. But then again I can imagine it a lot more expensive that headus. On Mar 9, 2014 11:28 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: I haven't managed to crack Pixo one iota about ZB5, and it's not for lack of trying.

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

2014-03-10 Thread Sajjad Amjad
And here I was, making some popcorn. Guess it's back to the mindless violence threads for me. On 10 Mar 2014 06:04, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Bugger! That last mail was supposed to be private. Apologies in advance if anybody finds it out of line, particularly to

Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler

2014-03-10 Thread Angus Davidson
Its one of the major Pros of a forum as opposed to a mailing list. Its somewhat easy to make this kind of mistake, as well as hijacking threads (which is one of the things I have to apologise for from time to time) Forums also allow for segregation of topics , proper admin control, and with

RE: Headus UV Layout

2014-03-10 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
I prefer UVLayout, it's smart, and fast, has plenty of tools. However, unwrapping might be ridiculous, so in many cases I unfold in Softimage, and the work on the rets in UVLayout. There are some greta connection between UVLayout and SI too From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

RE: Anyone in the SI list transitioning to MODO? -Please add your mail here

2014-03-10 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
I am evaluating modo now as an alternative, and it looks really promising, however, I miss the history. But since I worked with LW before SI for four years, it's really fun to feel a somehow familiar feeling :D From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Maya equivalent to Workgroups?

2014-03-10 Thread Rob Wuijster
Nice find! Thanks for that :-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 9-3-2014 20:41, Siew Yi Liang wrote: Hello, for myself I actually use symbolic links in Windows; my Maya scripts directories and plugins folder are synced to my OneDrive, and then a symlink links directly to that

Re: Forester anyone ?

2014-03-10 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Yes I am waiting for the release too. This one will help me a lot not having to go often to Vue for such scenes. --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-09 13:26 GMT-06:00 Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com: still waiting

Re: Forester anyone ?

2014-03-10 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Saw that - it looks great. MB Den 9. marts 2014 kl. 20:07 skrev olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr: https://vimeo.com/groups/ice/videos/88416806

RE: Headus UV Layout

2014-03-10 Thread Sofronis Efstathiou
That's excellent news. Glad there is a decent connection between itself and the 3D app. I always found Zbrush lack of UV editing tools odd...It seemed to unwrap awkwardly with the UV space...not very efficient if i remember. Thanks again. .. -Original Message- From: Szabolcs Matefy

Re: Forester anyone ?

2014-03-10 Thread Angus Davidson
On a similar vein theres also SiScatter that’s just been released http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=19t=5003 From: Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dkmailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk Reply-To: Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dkmailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk,

Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users

2014-03-10 Thread Nicolas Esposito
I would love to see a kind of Case study similar to what Emilio Hernandez did for the Dorrito technique, but applied to various areas, from modeling/advanced modeling, material setup, UVs, simple rigging, rendering and so on... Lots of posts and articles I've found on Maya vs Softimage are mostly

Re: Forester anyone ?

2014-03-10 Thread olivier jeannel
Awesome ! Le 10/03/2014 09:35, Angus Davidson a écrit : On a similar vein theres also SiScatter that’s just been released http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=19t=5003 From: Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk Reply-To: Morten Bartholdy

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-10 Thread Jordi Bares
If you have been following sorry for the repeat, a little reminder I have been working hard to put these guides to help transition those of you that are interested in going to Houdini http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopicp=143212#143212 enjoy Jordi Bares

Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hi all: I'm working on a little test animation in XSI where a guy wearing some pants is doing acrobatics, and I was playing around with Syflex in order to get some cloth simulation going for fun. Right now, I have a main scene file that contains the rig with a Syflex ICE tree, and the

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-10 Thread Francisco Criado
Thank you Jordi, much appreciated. F. On Monday, March 10, 2014, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: If you have been following sorry for the repeat, a little reminder I have been working hard to put these guides to help transition those of you that are interested in going to Houdini

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Stupid question maybe but have you baked the syflex sim before importing as a reference model? El mar 10, 2014 10:49 AM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com escribió: Hi all: I'm working on a little test animation in XSI where a guy wearing some pants is doing acrobatics, and I was playing

Re: The truth about Autodesk and Softimage. Did Autodesk try?

2014-03-10 Thread Oscar Juarez
@Francisco Well I'm guilty of the influx of softimage people from Ana movie, I was the cg sup there, and was very happy when a lot of the artists were comfortable using softimage, they received a standard training from a certified instructor and I kept helping everyone in their learning, after a

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Oscar Juarez
What we do is always simulate in another scene, since we point cache everything, we cache the simulation scene and load that cache in the lighting scene, so we avoid issues with simulation and referenced models. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.comwrote: Stupid

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hello Emilio: Nope, I haven't run any baking of any sort; I couldn't get the sim to behave the way I wanted in the animated scene(i.e. mesh explosion), so I didn't bother so far yet. (just checked the dir as well: no cache files anywhere =/ ) Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/10/2014

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hello Oscar: Hi, would that mean it would be better for me to bake out my actual animation deformation of the mesh and then simulate the cloth on that in a separate scene? Hmm, I might give that a shot if I can't figure this out. Would be highly annoying workflow-wise though =P Yours

Softimage helps win awards

2014-03-10 Thread Alastair Hearsum
Hello I'd just like to point out that ALL finalists in the TV commercials category of the British Animation Awards on Friday used SOFTIMAGE to create their work. Yes that's right SOFTIMAGE that redundant piece of software. Mm Alastair -- Alastair Hearsum Head of 3d

Re: The truth about Autodesk and Softimage. Did Autodesk try?

2014-03-10 Thread Francisco Criado
Hi Oscar! well at least we did what we could! Lets keep on the fight while we can! In my case i gave a 1 week overview course to the animatic animators, and nowaday they are pretty happy with the softimage discovering. Greetings, F. On Monday, March 10, 2014, Oscar Juarez

RE: Softimage helps win awards

2014-03-10 Thread Sofronis Efstathiou
Congratulations - and yet, at the same time a sobering moment Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition and Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Oscar Juarez
It is annoying workflow-wise if you don't have some tools, which I don't think you really need, the cache manager can work perfectly for this stuff. I haven't rendered a sim or animation scene in a while because it's prone to this kind of problems, I like to split the processes for lighting so the

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Emilio Hernandez
What I woul do is get everything cached before. And read it again in a new empty ICE tree. That way you will assure everything is ok before referencing El mar 10, 2014 11:01 AM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com escribió: Hello Oscar: Hi, would that mean it would be better for me to bake out my

Re: Softimage helps win awards

2014-03-10 Thread Jordi Bares
And the VES winner, Cannes Lion, BTAA winner last year, etc.. etc.. etc… If only they knew what they just did... Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 10 Mar 2014, at 10:02, Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk wrote: Hello I'd just like to point out that ALL finalists in the TV

Re: Softimage helps win awards

2014-03-10 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Well there goes another slap on Autodesk face. I still dont buy their explanations. Maybe they start selling more Softimage seats than Maya and Baaam!! a shot straight to Softimage's head. Before it started getting more and more popular. Can you imagine? The unbranded software, the plugin...

Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Alastair Hearsum
Folks Dan Y and other folks, I hope this comes across as firm but reasonable. I will post it on other appropriate sites. Any ideas on that front? * An open letter to Autodesk. Dear Autodesk My name is Alastair Hearsum. I'm a founding partner, director and head of 3d at Glassworks. If you

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread olivier jeannel
I remember having sometimes weird issues (simulation behaving badly) when changing topology of a syflex sim (for example increasing a grid density) or copying the ice tree to another object. Usualy copying the whole tree deleting and pasting in a fresh new icetree solved the problems. Le

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread olivier jeannel
At last ! the voice of the big guys ! Thank you ! thank you ! Le 10/03/2014 11:20, Alastair Hearsum a écrit : Folks Dan Y and other folks, I hope this comes across as firm but reasonable. I will post it on other appropriate sites. Any ideas on that front? * An open letter to Autodesk.

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Artur Woźniak
Nice one. Tanks for this as most of us are too small to be heard. I wish other companies would follow. Artur 2014-03-10 11:20 GMT+01:00 Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk: Folks Dan Y and other folks, I hope this comes across as firm but reasonable. I will post it on other

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hi Emilio and Oscar: If that's the case, I'll polish up the animation first, then cache it out and use that result to drive the cloth simulation rather than doing it all in one scene. I'm still going to try and see if I can solve this problem within a referenced workflow though when I get

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Jordi Bares
Spot on, it feels really well balanced, mature and fair, the feedback of a true professional. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 10 Mar 2014, at 10:20, Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk wrote: Folks Dan Y and other folks, I hope this comes across as firm but reasonable. I will

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Francisco Criado
Alastair, let me know when you publish this, i would like to forward it to several places, Glassworks is a very recognized studio and your voice should be heard everywhere. thanks in advance. F. On Monday, March 10, 2014, Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk wrote: Folks Dan Y and other

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread patrick nethercoat
Great letter, Alastair, sounds very nicely pitched to me. On 10 March 2014 10:26, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.fr wrote: At last ! the voice of the big guys ! Thank you ! thank you ! Le 10/03/2014 11:20, Alastair Hearsum a écrit : Folks Dan Y and other folks, I hope this comes

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Matt Morris
Just checking, you are starting the model from a default pose right? Not launching straight into an already animated pose? Syflex particularly doesn't like the base mesh being scaled in an animation scene. On 10 March 2014 10:27, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Emilio and Oscar:

Re: Headus UV Layout

2014-03-10 Thread Orlando Esponda
AFAIK the only official plugin is for Maya. That said, I think the one for Soft is rock solid. One feature not mentioned yet, and one that I really find useful, is the repaint module. Basically let's you bake existing textures for a different UV, onto a new one, and the cool thing is it supports

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Standing ovation!!!

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Made my day really, voice from masters in the field. thanks and if there is web page to be shared relinked and reposts please let us know will gladly point to it. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:30 AM, patrick nethercoat patr...@brandtanim.co.uk wrote: Great letter, Alastair, sounds very nicely

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi Siew, I'm not used to reference model. One thing I noticed (that happen sometimes otherwise woulde be too easy) Sometimes Syflex doesn't like beeing saved at frame greater than 1. So maybe, check that your Model is well saved at start frame. Sound stupid, but I had it once... Le

Re: Softimage udp data

2014-03-10 Thread Francisco Criado
Alan, thanks again Definetely i'll give it a try tonight, sorry if i bother you again with some questions, this is giving me a hard time :s F. On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: This one definitely works: https://github.com/KelSolaar/TCPServer_For_Softimage

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Daniel Kim
Very nice~ Glassworks rock! --- Daniel Kim Animation Director Professional 3D Generalist http://www.danielkim3d.com --- On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Mirko

Re: Migrate Ice

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Marshall
But actually nothing should be private, to be honest. We are all in the same effin boat here and should all be given all the information that's needed to help us out. Just because some shout louder than others, we are ALL screwed by the decision to scrap Softimage so this process should be all

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Great words Alastair. Sums it up really well in my opinion. DAN

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread michael johansson
Just a small remark to get it right and avoid that discussion. Under So the last two sentences: Autodesk have adjusted this so we can both switch to 3ds or maya and still continue to use softimage as long as we want. So that point is not valid anymore. Let me know when you publish it. I will be

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Yes they switched that but still doesn't change the fact that they are discontinuing best software for that line of the work. What SI enable to be done in commercial work where deadlines are axe over head non stop.. nothing else can do that. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:43 AM, michael johansson

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Brilliant letter, only your age surprised me a bit... ;) Alastair Hearsum schreef op 10-3-2014 11:20: *nearly 150 years old now* -- Leendert A. Hartog -- Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue -- Administrator @, NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Jacob Gonzalez
great words. This is the type of letter AD should be getting. Would be great to see more of this coming. From the right people - like you guys. J On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, michael johansson mich...@lowend.sewrote: Just a small remark to get it right and avoid that discussion. Under So

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-10 Thread Orlando Esponda
Thanks Jordi. I've been playing with the apprentice version the whole weekend and honestly, I thought it would be much harder to learn the main concepts. That said, I think the tough part is to learn how to work in an efficent and procedural way. I mean, it's way different than the other apps, so

Re: SI and Houdini

2014-03-10 Thread Jordi Bares
Great to know… make sure you look at the help files, they are very good and there are tons of example scenes. My suggestion is to start in the non-FX areas, that will give you a very good point of view to then dive there. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 10 Mar 2014, at 10:52, Orlando

Re: Problems with Syflex and referenced model woes

2014-03-10 Thread Siew Yi Liang
Hi Matt: Yes, the model preroll starts from -40, so he starts in his rest pose and transitions slowly to the first animated pose, and the Syflex first frame is set to that as well. Here are two GIFs that show what is happening: In this one (animation scene with ref model) the collision

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Rob Chapman
Hi Alistair, well wrote, I agree with what is said and admit its hard not to go emotional with the expletives from the way this is conducted by Adsk. for further dissemination go online to cg pro , cg talk , but also written press like film and advertising press like televisual, Creative

Re: Maya equivalent to Workgroups?

2014-03-10 Thread Upinder Dhaliwal
Jeremy Ernst has some nice series on maya tools distribution with python, might be helpful to get started: https://vimeo.com/48900076 On Monday, March 10, 2014, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote: Nice find! Thanks for that :-) Rob \/-\/\/ On 9-3-2014

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Griswold
Agreed - very good letter. Just have someone proofread it for grammar, spelling, etc. I assume you're not 150 years old. Also, in Gmail the format was weird. The first character of each paragraph was alone, then the paragraph started 2 lines below that. I am working with a semi-famous

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Marshall
Well written and says what we all feel. On 10 March 2014 10:59, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alistair, well wrote, I agree with what is said and admit its hard not to go emotional with the expletives from the way this is conducted by Adsk. for further dissemination go online

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Stefan Kubicek
You just made my day! I wonder why we haven't heard more from other places like yours, like Passion Pictures for example (of BBC's London Olympics 2012 fame). Having met Mario Ucci in fall 2013 I know how unhappy they are with the current situation too. Mario, where are you? What about Blur?

Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users

2014-03-10 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Hmm, must be a huge task... Morten Den 7. marts 2014 kl. 19:41 skrev Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote: I would really like to hear Autodesk plan to incorporate some of those features in Maya. I'm guessing

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Nerd corps is also SI based as I'm aware? I'm guessing that bigger places got their offer to upgrade licences and pet talk before... but still Transfer for free to Maya doesn''t mean a thing when you will transfer all your senior stuff back to juniors with Maya as well... On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread olivier jeannel
Agree, agree. I missed a lot of mails, but did Tim Borgmaan joined the happy conversation ? And Polynoid ? And Guillaume ? Le 10/03/2014 12:10, Stefan Kubicek a écrit : You just made my day! I wonder why we haven't heard more from other places like yours, like Passion Pictures for example

Re: Fabric Engine QA thread

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Doyle
Yes of course :) On 9 March 2014 23:26, 松本 隆芳 yamahiga...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Paul, Can I translate this in Japanese and showing on my gist? I think its to be useful. (2014/03/06 3:18), Paul Doyle wrote: (cross-posted to SI-Community and to our mailing list) Hi everyone, We've

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Tim Borgmann
100% agree! Cheers Tim Folks Dan Y and other folks, I hope this comes across as firm but reasonable. I will post it on other appropriate sites. Any ideas on that front? * An open letter to Autodesk. Dear Autodesk My name is Alastair Hearsum. I'm a founding partner, director and head

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Marshall
There's a company in Iceland also using many Soft seats because all work could be done in Soft, compositing etc. On 10 March 2014 11:17, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Nerd corps is also SI based as I'm aware? I'm guessing that bigger places got their offer to upgrade

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread paul
A great, well balanced letter and I’m sure most Softimage users would agree. From: Alastair Hearsum Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 10:20 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Open letter to Autodesk Folks Dan Y and other folks, I hope this comes across as firm but reasonable. I will

RE: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Sofronis Efstathiou
Great stuff Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition and Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Christian Lattuada
THIS IS IT! This speaks for me too! .:. Christian Lattuada On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Sofronis Efstathiou sefstath...@bournemouth.ac.uk wrote: Great stuff Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition and Festival Director Computer

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Mirko Jankovic
*trim*

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Eugen Sares
Great, thanks for stepping up! The irony is - Softimage's death is the best publicity it ever got from Autodesk... -- Originalnachricht -- Von: Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk An: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Gesendet: 10.03.2014 11:20:09

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Thank you for posting this - my sentiments exactly Alastair - very well put. Softimage is the very reason why we can handle complex stuff with a very small crew. With Maya on the horizon we will be less effective and have to hire more freelance TD's to get the same things done = less money

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Eugen Sares schreef op 10-3-2014 12:30: The irony is - Softimage's death is the best publicity it ever got from Autodesk... QFA -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue – Administrator @, NOT the owner of si-community.com

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Alastair Hearsum
I've taken out the sentence referring to the threat of discontinuing Softimage licenses if the Maya offer is taken up. I've also revised my age reference. It was a joke but may have been misconstrued as a typographical error. Feel free to distribute it to any channels where it would help or

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Alastair, excellent letter and spot on. Thanks for taking the effort. I hope this letter does not just stay inside this mailing list but gets more exposure as well. -M -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ]

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Arvid Björn
Great sentiment, thank you so much for writing this. I would really like to see how this is received. When I have my sit-down with our reseller and Autodesk (as promised) I'll be sure to point to this and make sure everyone reads it. Would also be great if everyone working at a significant studio

Re: Migrate Ice

2014-03-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
In some regards things have to be private, Chris. Beside the over-abused within quarter rule for traded companies it's extremely hard to juggle a public discussion, and the sheer amount of noise and crusading isn't exactly encouraging anybody on either side to be too public. Just be one of the

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Just wondering if bigger fishes aren't actually bribed or something with some super extra offer from AD to keep them happy and silent...

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Alastair Hearsum
Not sure what size of fish we're regarded as but no bribe was offered to us. 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

Did the offer really change? (was: Open letter to Autodesk)

2014-03-10 Thread Christoph Muetze
On 10/03/14 12:42, Alastair Hearsum wrote: I've taken out the sentence referring to the threat of discontinuing Softimage licenses if the Maya offer is taken up. They didn't change their position on this afaik. They just rephrased it imho. Read carefully what Maurice wrote: -- 1.

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Pejril
Sounds great Alastair. I really hope others in your position join in and this gets some exposure. Thank you. Dan On 3/10/2014 7:42 AM, Alastair Hearsum wrote: I've taken out the sentence referring to the threat of discontinuing Softimage licenses if the Maya offer is taken up. I've also

Re: Migrate Ice

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Marshall
Yes sorry, I was thinking of the contact details of whoever is offering additional information regarding other software alternatives / assistance etc. there are so many discussions taking place on here it's difficult to keep track on who's offering what. I feel a list is in order. On 10 March

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Doeke Wartena
The irony is - Softimage's death is the best publicity it ever got from Autodesk... nice said. For the rest really nice letter, let's hope it moves other companies to speak out their minds as well. 2014-03-10 13:05 GMT+01:00 Dan Pejril d...@upbeatunique.com: Sounds great Alastair. I really

Re: Did the offer really change?

2014-03-10 Thread Christoph Muetze
I've just been told that accessing prior versions might mean that softimage 2015 will stay in all future license files of the MYECS. is that true? Can somebody please confirm this to me? Thanks! Chris On 10/03/14 13:08, Christoph Muetze wrote: On 10/03/14 12:42, Alastair Hearsum wrote:

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Amaan Akram
Alastair, brilliant letter. Here's hoping other studio executives will chime in. On 10 March 2014 11:44, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Alastair, excellent letter and spot on. Thanks for taking the effort. I hope this letter does not just stay inside this

[OT] My take on recent events.

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
How we got here. I believe the reason we are where we are has been touched on in the various threads of the last few days. Sure, not having visibility on the Autodesk site or seeing banner ads for Max and Maya and none for Softimage on the various social media platforms has some influence on

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Marshall
If we knew who a letter like this could be sent to, we could all copy it into an e-mail and individually send it to that person. On 10 March 2014 12:13, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.org wrote: Alastair, brilliant letter. Here's hoping other studio executives will chime in. On 10

RE: Migrate Ice

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Vienneau
For those of that don't know the notion of the within the quarter rule we can only speak about news that will happen within each quarter. A quarter is the 90 day period and we just had one starting on February 1st. If you talk about future things and someone buy's your software based on things

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Griswold
Hi Alastair - It might be worthwhile to link to the article from the front page of your site. Perhaps put a large link right above the Glassworks banner? I think the entire Softimage community would appreciate it if other shops would take similar steps. For any sort of change to happen, this

Re: Did the offer really change?

2014-03-10 Thread michael johansson
This was what I was refering to, from the thread called Update to the Softtimage Transition Plan Hi everyone, I have an update to the Softimage Transition Plan to share with you: When we created the initial Softimage transition plan our desire was to provide our customers with an easy, no-cost

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
That's a bit paranoid. I don't know of anybody who's been offered any such thing regardless of size of license pool or prominence of their work. On 10 Mar 2014 22:59, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if bigger fishes aren't actually bribed or something with some

RE: Headus UV Layout

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Vienneau
Hi Everyone, We are very close to the announce of the new features. We worked with Polygonal Design to include their new UV unfold plugin in the next version of Maya. It is a new in that it is very robust with larger meshes. There is also a lot of work done in Maya's uv editor especially

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Mirko Jankovic
They called us paranoid when we said:AD is gonna kill it it is end of Softimage! back in 2008, right? :) On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: That's a bit paranoid. I don't know of anybody who's been offered any such thing regardless of size

Re: [OT] My take on recent events.

2014-03-10 Thread Sebastian Kowalski
not OT at all Dan. Could not agree more. Sebastian Am 10.03.2014 um 13:15 schrieb Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com: How we got here. I believe the reason we are where we are has been touched on in the various threads of the last few days. Sure, not having visibility on the Autodesk site

Re: Headus UV Layout

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Griswold
Not that it'll compete with a dedicated UV app, but 3D-Coat has always done a very good job with UVs for me. Andrew has just released a new beta with Globally Ungorm Unfolding in addition to the other methods: http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10395hl= It has a Softimage AppLink so

RE: Did the offer really change?

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Vienneau
I have been having some private threads on this and will break out to the group a little technical than what Maurice has been describing. Every license of softimage out there today from v 1.0 to 2015 is permanent. No one can stop you from using those licenses. Some of the private threads are

Re: Did the offer really change?

2014-03-10 Thread Christoph Muetze
On 10/03/14 13:47, Chris Vienneau wrote: In the new plan Softimage 2015 will stay on in those licenses so if you are on Maya or ECS 2018 and on subscription it will start up Softimage 2015 and so on. This will allow people to keep working with Soft or use it to open old setups. That's indeed

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Well Put Alastair ! On 10 March 2014 12:48, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.comwrote: Hmmm, no, nobody did. Not that it was the plan back then anyway. I've worked in plenty places that were large and/or prestige clients, and I wish AD offered bribes like that. You're lucky if you

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Mirko Jankovic
100% right Raffaele :) It was supposed to sound more like where are they all? but missed the form and lost in translation :) Thanks On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Well Put Alastair ! On 10 March 2014 12:48, Raffaele Fragapane

[OT] Some musings regarding Blender...

2014-03-10 Thread Dan Yargici
I started to write this post at the end of last summer and it sat unfinished in my Drafts folder, so I've just corrected a couple of things and I'm throwing it out there as is DAN I've recently (well, on and off over the last year or so and more frequently of late) started learning Blender

Re: Anyone in the SI list transitioning to MODO? -Please add your mail here

2014-03-10 Thread Tim Crowson
Yes the lack of non-rigging-related operator stack (not just history) has been an issue for some people who really do like to model more procedurally. In rigging, you'll find that deformers are stacked using Order of Operations, similarly to the operator stack in Softimage, on a per-deformer

Re: [OT] Some musings regarding Blender...

2014-03-10 Thread Nicolas Esposito
I just saw the 2.7 release and man, they really improved since the last time I tried it! I'm also trying to see which software to use next to Softimage, and for now the choices are Maya, Modo and Houdini, but Blender, seeing how they improved everything and being open source, has always intrigued

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-10 Thread Juan Brockhaus
Well put Alastair! Great! Thank you! Juan On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.comwrote: 100% right Raffaele :) It was supposed to sound more like where are they all? but missed the form and lost in translation :) Thanks On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:03 PM,

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