If segmentation fault starts at XSI Startup, try clearing the following folders:
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Restart XSI :)
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:51 PM
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nice one Arvid! love the finish of the hole spot!
/stefan
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey list =)
Just wanted to show off the latest spot!
Directed by Traktor, graded by MPC, vfx by us - your friendly post house,
Stopp!
Softimage + Nuke
Friday Flashback #85
The end part II
http://wp.me/powV4-24o
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote:
My memories working with Softimage 3D on a SGI...
Sent from my iPhone
On 24 Aug, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Stephen Blair stephen.bl...@autodesk.com
O_o
On 31 August 2012 11:54, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote:
Friday Flashback #85
The end part II
http://wp.me/powV4-24o
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.comwrote:
My memories working with Softimage 3D on a SGI...
Sent from my iPhone
On
Hi Stephen,
Just wanted to thank you for the tremendous support you offered for
Softimage over the last few years. Your move might be a drop in the ocean
for Autodesk but I'm fairly certain it's going to be felt heavily by the
Softimage community.
Thanks for all the fish and good luck,
Sajjad
On
??? Mr Stephen Blair leaving!? voluntarily? or part of the 7% ???
On 31 August 2012 11:58, Sajjad Amjad sajjad.am...@gmail.com wrote:
O_o
On 31 August 2012 11:54, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote:
Friday Flashback #85
The end part II
http://wp.me/powV4-24o
On Fri,
7%
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote:
??? Mr Stephen Blair leaving!? voluntarily? or part of the 7% ???
On 31 August 2012 11:58, Sajjad Amjad sajjad.am...@gmail.com wrote:
O_o
On 31 August 2012 11:54, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com
Thank you so much for all of your support or the years! You have been*awesome
*! And you will be dearly missed!
best regards
Stefan Andersson
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote:
Friday Flashback #85
The end part II
http://wp.me/powV4-24o
On
btw, I don't like this friday flashback, please remove it :)
/stefan
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote:
Thank you so much for all of your support or the years! You have been*awesome
*! And you will be dearly missed!
best regards
Stefan Andersson
damn...
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote:
7%
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote:
??? Mr Stephen Blair leaving!? voluntarily? or part of the 7% ???
On 31 August 2012 11:58, Sajjad Amjad
Neither do I...
On 31 Aug, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Stefan Andersson
sander...@gmail.commailto:sander...@gmail.com wrote:
btw, I don't like this friday flashback, please remove it :)
/stefan
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Stefan Andersson
sander...@gmail.commailto:sander...@gmail.com wrote:
I am rendered speechless :/
Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com hat am 31. August 2012 um 12:54
geschrieben:
Friday Flashback #85
The end part II
http://wp.me/powV4-24o http://wp.me/powV4-24o
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com
Stephen Blair has been MR Softimage for US - Autodesk - sorry but you are the
biggest bunch of blundering idiots that 3D animation has ever seen!
my 0.02c
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Sandy Sutherland
Technical Supervisor
sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za
_
+1 to what you said Rob.
@StephenBlair, I really hope you have something lined up. Would be
an awful waste of talent and knowledge to have someone like you not behind
a copy of Softimage
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote:
so a number of comments made
I wonder if this is the action of Mr. 'Mayalicious' Softimage's new product
manager? I need a phone number or email address to complain to, this is a
truly preposterous decision.
Frankly no, the recent layoffs have affected many locations, divisions, and
departments. No one in particular seems to have been singled out.
For the record, I didn’t like this news any more than anyone else.
G
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
I am so sorry to hear this news Stephen. You have been amazingly helpful to
us over the years and it is quite a blow to hear this news. I most
sincerely wish you the best of luck.
-=Eric
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Graham Bell graham.b...@autodesk.comwrote:
Frankly no, the recent layoffs
Hi Rob
No, not at all. He is in a completely separate division (Dev) from product
support. Product Support reports up into the Sales and Services org.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if this is the action of Mr. 'Mayalicious' Softimage's new
[ insert long list of nasty words ]!!
I'm now going to ignore that pay subscription mail even more.
/s
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Brassard dbrassar...@gmail.comwrote:
Guillaume Laforge is also in the 7% . What the F*^%^%^ AD.
Good luck Stephen and Guillaume. You are
even though Guillaume is/was now part of the Maya team.
/s
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote:
[ insert long list of nasty words ]!!
I'm now going to ignore that pay subscription mail even more.
/s
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Daniel
ah thanks Stephen, again , with timely advices. dammit this is such a sad
occasion just want to vent at somebody responsible for this and hear any
kind of justification at Autodesk being a massive pile of shite
On 31 August 2012 13:07, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Rob
No,
yep, Im dropping subscription over this too. FU autodesk
On 31 August 2012 13:10, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.com wrote:
even though Guillaume is/was now part of the Maya team.
/s
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote:
[ insert long list of nasty
This is really sad news.
Good luck to all the 7%-ers
Stephen I'm very saddened to hear this. I really appreciate all your time
and help. You went above and beyond for the Softimage community. I hope
you find better things with a company that understands how valuable you are
to have on the team.
This one really has me really scratching my head, what are those people
at AD thinking.
Stephen has been the most helpful person I have ever dealt with.
Collectively can't we sign a protest form and send it to AD?.
This is indeed a sad day for XSI community
Leoung
On 8/31/2012 8:12 AM, Rob
Sorry about your situation Stephen. :(
Is Daniel Langlois aware that Autodesk is liquidating it's first success? You
might say he sold it long ago and moved on but perhaps he would be mad to know
that it's about to die a horrible death.
Perhaps he has a few millions floating around and could
Cannot remember their name Graham - was about 2 years ago - they came to
Triggerfish when they were in Cape Town - they were certainly from the Maya
side of things, and made a lot of effort to tell me how they were going out of
their way (As Autodesk policy) to stop people such as myself having
I'm on boards with several others. This might be the tipping point for me.
Stephen Manny were, without a doubt, the main reason I continued to pay
my subscription each year.
I've been evaluating options over the past couple of years, and while I
don't think there's anything nearly as good as
I don't understand how this could have happened. How did they pick the 7%? Did
they blindfold themselves and throw darts at a an employee chart? No disrespect
to the good people that weren't part of the 7%, but from a user's viewpoint it
seems like they let go some people who were more valuable
Hi Stephen,
Like all the others I would thank you in a big way for all the help
you've been through the years.
It's sad to see you go, especially like this :-(
I wish you all the best, and hope you find something exciting and new
any time soon.
And a related question, what will happen to
I think I know who that was etc. And in some ways I agree with them in some
part, but not in others.
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Sutherland
Sent: 31 August 2012 14:04
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Hi Rob
The blog will stay up.
xsisupport.wordpress.com is of course a free blog.
And I renewed xsisupport.com the next year (and also the No Ads upgrade).
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl wrote:
Hi Stephen,
Like all the others I would thank you in a big way for
Am 31.08.2012 15:26, schrieb Graham Bell:
A very good point Ed, as myself and others have been doing the same thing.
Not wanting to make light of Stephens news, and whilst many are understandably hung
up on the negative impact to Softimage, there have also been some other ME
names that have
Laying off support? FcK! Why dont they lay off all those middle man that
keep people from buying their software, and move sales structure to the
cloud? Would be a small step into modernizing stuff at this slow moving and
souless company.
Stephen, this is truly saddening. Best wishes to you and
Agree, AD should sell back Softimage to some serious developper company.
After all, SI is just a pluggin on their website.
Olivier
Le 31/08/2012 15:32, Eugen Sares a écrit :
Am 31.08.2012 15:26, schrieb Graham Bell:
A very good point Ed, as myself and others have been doing the same
thing.
Jeezus, what a mistake Autodesk! I am not going to mince words - this fucking
sucks!!! Someone in the know please post a phone number or website where we
can complain.
Stephen - I have recreated every example you have posted on the blog for the
past year and couldn't have learned Softimage
Well what the fuck. Without belittling anyone's efforts here, you were
easily the most useful person on this list.
Thank you for the years of support Stephen, and I wish you all the best.
Nic
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote:
Friday Flashback #85
I am so sorry to hear this news Stephen, thanks so much for all this year
of support.
You helped me SO many time on xsibase, the list and your blog.
Best of luck on your next venture man,
BEst,
Cris
On 31 August 2012 14:48, Nic Groot Bluemink nicgrootbluem...@gmail.comwrote:
Well what the
Thanks everyone! We really enjoyed working on this one!
Marc-Andre: That scenario is actually in one of the short 20sec versions,
they wanted to save a few gags for later :-) I'm not sure they've all aired
so I don't I think can upload those just yet.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:13 PM,
Sorry for resurrecting a pretty old thread here, but this has been killing me
lately. I made some progress so thought I'd share.
Quick workaround, if you're using Royal Render, submit with 'Start Multiple
Instances', each render node will render 2 frames at the same time, so it will
be slow
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Xavier Lapointe
xl.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote:
So Luc-Eric, that means that we are stuck pretty much for ever and ever on
Python2.5 unless the new team rewrite Soft and get rid of Mainwin (... seems
unlikely.)?
Nope, it's possible to update python without
Oh wow! Can we start an 'Occupy Autodesk' movement to protest in favor
of 'The 7%'.
Stephen, it's sad to see you go. Stay connected to the community!
*Tim Crowson
*/Lead CG Artist/
*Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc.
*2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214
*Ph* 615.885.6801 |
I'm also very sorry about this. Your support has really been above and
beyond expected, getting us up and running on weekends and providing
your irreplaceable blog.
Best wishes,
Ben
On 8/31/2012 8:58 AM, Cristobal Infante wrote:
I am so sorry to hear this news Stephen, thanks so much for all
So saddened by this news.
And angry.
Dave G
On 8/31/2012 10:54 AM, Christoph Muetze wrote:
On 08/31/2012 02:14 PM, Sandy Sutherland wrote:
I am going to be very honest with you Graham - this is probably going
to be a turning point for some decision making to do with Softimage
Software - I
You are simply the most helpful person I have have EVER had in support
of any kind Like I told your bosses Stephan Blair rocks!!! You
are already missed! Autodesk is proving them selves on a daily basis
they cant make a good decision.
“
Laying off support? FcK! Why dont they lay off all those middle man that keep
people from buying their software, and move sales structure to the cloud? Would
be a small step into modernizing stuff at this slow moving and souless company.
“
*exactly*
if they want the company to survive, the
Not only Stephan, but Guillaume Laforge was also one of the 7%...
Hi All,
If there is any initiative that we can take to voice our disagreement
regarding this decision, I am all for it. A bulk mail or signature to
Autodesk or something else. Let us do something. If there are enough
people, may be our voice will be heard.
Ideas anyone ?
Alok.
all chip in to buy the source code of AD for a price reflective of how
much they value the product (not much), round up the (very talented) 7%,
give them our subscriptions instead to carry on developing it.
-Original Message-
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
Facebook ? or other social network?
2012/8/31 Alok alok.gan...@modusfx.com
Hi All,
If there is any initiative that we can take to voice our disagreement
regarding this decision, I am all for it. A bulk mail or signature to
Autodesk or something else. Let us do something. If there are
Adsk knows that letting go of Softimage would mean a serious threat to their
remaining 3d Apps in the long run.
They'd rather see it go the way of the 5D Cyborg (ne1 remember that one?) than
selling it.
all chip in to buy the source code of AD for a price reflective of how
much they value
Things must be bad if I'm the one who tries to offer the glimmer of hope.
:-)
I'm not the only one here who's been around in the SI community for close
to 20 years, and we've been through these sorts of layoffs ever since SI
first went public back in '92. Back in the day, I used to joke (to cope
When Autodesk bought Softimage, I said it was the end of XSI.
Nobody wanted to believe me at that time, peoples were reassured with
wonderfull statements saying on the contrary with the dev and financial
power of Autodesk glorious days are ahead..
Well.. I hope now these peoples realize XSI
+1 to what you said.
On Friday, August 31, 2012, Guy Rabiller wrote:
When Autodesk bought Softimage, I said it was the end of XSI.
Nobody wanted to believe me at that time, peoples were reassured with
wonderfull statements saying on the contrary with the dev and financial
power of
I set up RR to use multiple instances too. For the same reason, so one instance
will use the idle cores when pre-processing. You can start even more than two
instances. In rrConfig under client config/your group/ Jobs/Multi Instance
Jobs... If the render nodes have enough ram installed of
Well, we could always organise a ProjectX like party at AD building...
That would be ...something.
Sorry can't be more constructive...
Le 31/08/2012 18:40, Stefan Andersson a écrit :
+1 to what you said.
On Friday, August 31, 2012, Guy Rabiller wrote:
When Autodesk bought
i will miss you stephen! we will never forget!
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote:
7%
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Rob Chapman tekano@gmail.com wrote:
??? Mr Stephen Blair leaving!? voluntarily? or part of the 7% ???
On 31 August
Sad news indeed!
Switching to alternative software is easier said than done.
There are alternatives that adequately (if not better) address
specific areas of development.
Areas such as Modeling, FX, Rendering and now Lighting with the
release of Katana could be handled quite well.
There is
This is really terrible news, I've been worried to hear about what the
effect would be on the Softimage team since I read about the AD
layoffs.
I hope you guys find other jobs that make use of your talents soon.
If anyone is interested in working on games, the place I work for is
hiring engineers
It's terribly sad to see a few of my colleagues go this week. Stephen
had worked for many years at Softimage an SDK documentation writer and
had ended up in support following cuts at Avid. Manny continues to
handle Softimage support and Chris continues to take an active role in
the community.
Just adding my voice...
Stephen this blog was my first reading in the morning for the past couple
of years.
You'll be missed as much as the old dev and support team from Softimage.
Jeremie
Wht?! Laforge too?? Sad day. :(
I will greatly miss you both. I hope you still lurk here from time to time.
*Thank you for the exceptional support through all these years.* You guys
rock!
-- Alan
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Daniel Brassard dbrassar...@gmail.comwrote:
Stephen and Guillaume were inspiring Autodesk staff, and I feel certain I will
continue to be inspired by them both in the future wherever life takes them.
Autodesk certainly hasn't impressed me with this move, or in general over the
last few years. But despite my griping I'm still bullish on
You all probably remember
my last rant when dev moved to asia. i was pretty explicit.
I will be more Zen this time.. I think..
(dont think i dont trust the new guys out there) . I am sure they will
impress us with cool goodies! If they are not popped out of the equation
soon enough too.
ok glad you are still
there Luc-Eric!...
just took the time to delve donw the thread... dam it must be hard for
you!!
i wish you the best!
sly
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Man, I really like your prose :)
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote:
You all probably remember my last rant when dev moved to asia. i was
pretty explicit.
I will be more Zen this time.. I think..
(dont think i dont trust the new guys out there) . I
Hi Guys,
I just wanted to say thank you for all the good words I heard today.
I'm out of AD and won't follow this list as much as before, but it was a
real pleasure to exchange ideas with all those great peoples !
See you maybe on the Fabric Engine beta list !
Cheers,
Guillaume Laforge
Please take care Guillaume.
And thanks for all the guidance all this while.
Ps: And if you are involved in FabricEngine, do sign me up on your Beta ;)
Chris
On 1 Sep, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Guillaume Laforge
guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
I just wanted to say thank you for
Guillaume I also want to express my appreciation for all that you brought
to the Softimage experience. I feel like I'm getting too much practice
writing 'sad to see you go' emails. Best of luck on the next steps.
Regards,
-Dave
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Chris Chia
take care bro!!!
And also have fun with your new challenges!!
sly
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