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

2014-03-09 Thread Maurício PC
Great article Emilio ... I guess what makes more sad is that the only software I ever felt comfortable was Softimage. I've never worked with it on production, I just studied. And now I'll need to learn Maya because the future is Maya? Hell ... I only had the dream of working with in 3D for films

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

2014-03-09 Thread Paul Griswold
Great Emilio! Can I make a request? It'd be a good idea if you could add some share buttons or like buttons right at the top of the article. I see them at the bottom of the page, but they're in the footer I'm not sure if they'd link directly to your article. -Paul ᐧ On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at

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

2014-03-09 Thread Doeke Wartena
nice article emilio. 2014-03-09 14:51 GMT+01:00 Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com: Great Emilio! Can I make a request? It'd be a good idea if you could add some share buttons or like buttons right at the top of the article. I see them at the bottom of the page, but

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

2014-03-09 Thread Greg Punchatz
Perfect Sent from my iPhone On Mar 8, 2014, at 11:20 PM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: http://e-roja.com/the-truth-about-softimage-and-autodesk/ --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation.

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

2014-03-09 Thread Eric Mootz
+1 On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: http://e-roja.com/the-truth-about-softimage-and-autodesk/ --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation.

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

2014-03-09 Thread Francisco Criado
Emilio, thanks for the article, and thanks for putting un gallo con muchos huevos as a sample of Softimage in production, but i have to tell you that even that the movie was originally planned (by me, i'm the guilty one jeje) to be done entirely in Softimage, when i was ripped oft the movie, the

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

2014-03-09 Thread Mirko Jankovic
That is how AD was trying to support Softimage but it didn;t work... Looks like they messed up and instead letting people buy Softimage they made it harder On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.comwrote: Emilio, thanks for the article, and thanks for putting un

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

2014-03-09 Thread Francisco Criado
Raffaele, let me clarify something i wrote wrong, in my case wasn't a reseller, it was autodesk mexico, my mistake. But anyways everything you said applies to this. F. On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Resellers have always hated having it added to

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

2014-03-09 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Indeed Raffael. They tried to flood my studio with Maya once after the acquisition, they even installed Maya in every workstation I had, I said I was not paying for any. The answer was no problem, I will leave you an open license for as long as you want. Maya is better. Yeah better for them

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

2014-03-09 Thread Francisco Criado
Emilio, i was the guy interviewing all staff at the beginning of production, via Skype to the guys on DF and personally on Gdl, so we had to have a chat for sure. Gabriel (the director) WAS one of my best friends, and when he came to me and told me he wanted to do the third movie on 3d in two

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

2014-03-09 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hey then we talked. I couldnt move from Mexico City to Guadalajara at that time. Funny though last friday I was with Alex Iturmendi and he started talking abouy you. El mar 9, 2014 10:39 AM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com escribió: Emilio, i was the guy interviewing all staff at the

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

2014-03-09 Thread Francisco Criado
Hope he was talking about me in a good way :) he was one of my mentors, with Victor Wolansky, had the pleasure to work with both of them. Say hi from me ! Sorry to the rest of the list if this went OT. Anyways, i can speak from the latin american side, and say that Autodesk never had any intention

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

2014-03-09 Thread Jason S
Hi Emilio, I think your article reveals a number of difficult truths. But indeed difficult they are.. meaning, the openness of whom ever it may concern, is something that can be very sensitive/delicate, and that openness is crucial for any points to actually come across. I myself admit

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

2014-03-09 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Yes Jason. Indeed it is a streaming of accusations. That I cant deny. Autodesk told us they tried. But Imho it was a smoke curtain all the time. It is still a mystery why they kill Softimage. They say it is to focuse in the future and not distract valuable resources from the future developments

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

2014-03-09 Thread Ahmidou Lyazidi
By the way, I'm quite sceptic about AD's definition of innovation (read buy and integrate...). Or at leat those that made their way to the DCCs. --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos

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

2014-03-09 Thread Jason S
Yep.. Bait and switch But I think its also important to not be too quick to judge. In this (really bad) system, the pressure to perform (purely financially) is enormous, and leads to all sorts of .. uhm.. behavioral characteristics.. On 03/09/14 13:41, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Yes Jason.

The truth about Autodesk and Softimage. Did Autodesk try?

2014-03-08 Thread Emilio Hernandez
http://e-roja.com/the-truth-about-softimage-and-autodesk/ --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation.