Re: Update to the Softtimage Transition Plan

2014-03-11 Thread Leoung O'Young
Hi Maurice, Thanks for answering my questions, I have another question. I just got a quote for buying and upgrading XSI. For the remaining 2 years that is left in the live of XSI, how many people will be left to do technical support for XSI? The quote also included subscription support cost, I

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Yargici
Great suggestion Greg! DAN On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: ;-) love it *Sylvain Lebeau // SHED* V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread olivier jeannel
Hey Sylvain, I'd be curious what will come from that meeting. Please, if possible, let us know. I 'd be extremly curious to know also what will be Shed move (or stick). Best, Olivier Le 11/03/2014 03:43, Sylvain Lebeau a crit:

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

2014-03-11 Thread philipp.oeser
First of: I do share some of the emotions presented here over the last couple of days regarding the retirement of softimage: just sad... Looking forward I would also like to encourage people to consider Blender in their evaluation-process as well. Dan already pointed out some stuff that is worth

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Mário Domingos
Greg, can I post your letter on Facebook?— Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: Hello Autodesk, My name is Greg Punchatz , Senior Creative Director at Janimation. I have a proposal, or call it a counter offer on the proper way

RE: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Chris Vienneau
Hi Greg, Do you have any more info on what you mean by long standing low level requests and can you list the top 10 third parties you would like me to reach out to follow up with? Or is there anyone on the list who is a third party developer that can elaborate? For the SDK it is a really

RE: URGENT: Consolidation of Questions

2014-03-11 Thread Chris Vienneau
Let us know which way you lean. For Maya we have two forums: One forum is small annoying things that you run into every day and they drive you nuts. http://mayafeedback.autodesk.com/forums/160518-small-annoying-things-to-fix-in-maya-forum/filters/top The second forum is big ideas

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

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Volkmann
And to see a bit of what is possible take a look at this: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Nodes/Sverchok This is procedural node based modeling like the grashopper plugin in Rhino. I haven't tried it myself yet, but looking at the pictures it could be pretty nice. Who

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

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Volkmann
On another note: Maybe we should run a fundraiser to Softimagify Blender. :) Thomas Volkmann li...@thomasvolkmann.com hat am 11. März 2014 um 10:33 geschrieben: And to see a bit of what is possible take a look at this:

Re[2]: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Eugen Sares
I'm not quite among the top 10 3rd party developers (wrote a couple of topology operators though for curve editing and extrusions, with the classic SDK), but allow me: The operator SDK has the limitation of not allowing to write to clusters/cluster properties. Therefore it's not possible to

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

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Swindells
this might help clarify a tad: http://urchn.org/post/nodal-transform-experiment -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm - A kinematic engine that I still haven't figured out. I may have missed something but I could never rely on actual transforms values.It seems that the values

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Alastair Hearsum
yes you can 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 glassworks.co.uk (Company registered in England with number 04759979. Registered

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

2014-03-11 Thread Arvid Björn
I'd donate to that! Actually, I'd pay a large sum to them if they remove that red/white circle thingie from the viewport. And changed how to scale/rot/transform objects by default. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Thomas Volkmann li...@thomasvolkmann.comwrote: On another note: Maybe we

Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Hi guys, Since I'm not a Maya user I would like to ask you a couple of things regarding exporting a rigged character from Softimage to Maya. I'm using Species and there is already a video on how to export the rig to Maya, but, even using Gear rig or a custom one, it is possible to export the

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Alastair Hearsum
Good idea 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 glassworks.co.uk (Company registered in England with number 04759979. Registered

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hey Alastair can I put your letter in my website besides the Truth about Autodesk and Softimage? Cheers! --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-11 4:51 GMT-06:00 Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk: yes you can Alastair

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
The only thing that actually has worked for me exporting rigs from Softimage to Maya is the skeleton, envelope (don't expect all the weighting to be accurate), and constrains, and expressions. Everything else in my experiencie like shapes needs to be redone in Maya. And believe me is hell.

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Yeah, +1 from my side as well. -M -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ] On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Alastair Hearsum hear...@glassworks.co.uk wrote: Good idea Alastair Hearsum Head of 3d

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

2014-03-11 Thread Daniel Kim
Wow, blender has improved a lot. I am learning Modo with trial versikn now, but definetly will try Blender too. Open source is tmepting and quality looks gnot bad too. Only the matter is interface really. If someone else know nice Blender tutorial sites, please let me know. Cheers Daniel On

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Doeke Wartena
I doubt autodesk improves sdk. It will mean people can stay longer with softimage. Which is less sells on maya and max. And in the end it's all about money... :( For the rest nice letter, i really like the big letters are coming. 2014-03-11 12:14 GMT+01:00 Martin Chatterjee

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread David Saber
If more attention was paid to the application during its life, perhaps its death would not be upon us... Exactly!! David

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

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Yargici
There are a few free ones on CG cookie. You have to pay for the courses though. http://cgcookie.com/blender/ On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Kim danielki...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, blender has improved a lot. I am learning Modo with trial versikn now, but definetly will try Blender

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

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Swindells
[1]http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/3D_inter action/Enhanced_3D_Cursor they take paypal ;p -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Tue, Mar 11, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Arvid Björn wrote: I'd donate to that! Actually, I'd pay a large sum to them if they

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread peter_b
Hi Greg, this is pretty much along the lines of what I’ve been thinking. Retiring Softimage as announced is way too abrupt and disruptive. While not a big success in the market place, it has it’s place, is very much alive and in good shape. Yes, we would all love to see some huge development

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Damn it, I thought about being complicated, but doing everything inside Maya right now would be counterproductive, since Species saved me lot of time. So...doing thing in Maya would be 4-6 more time consumingthat is just great...I know that there are rigging tools for Maya as welllbut

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Alastair Hearsum
yes 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 glassworks.co.uk (Company registered in England with number 04759979. Registered office

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Dan Yargici
BRILLIANT post. Perfectly articulated Peter, well done! DAN On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:46 PM, pete...@skynet.be wrote: Hi Greg, this is pretty much along the lines of what I've been thinking.

Softimage Opensource + MacOSX

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Zack
Hi, If AD is stopping Softimage, do they sell it? What about buying the sources, making it open-sourced and porting to MacOSX. Curious if they want more then 20 m $ ... and if one would find 20.000 people spending 1000$ for that :) Cheers, Rob

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Jean-Louis Billard
Hi all, I’d like to chime in if I may. I run a very small company in Brussels called Digital Golem that’s been around for almost 8 years, and our pipeline is essentially Softimage-Arnold-Nuke, with a bit of ZBrush thrown in for good measure. One of the biggest reasons we are able to be

Re: Softimage Opensource + MacOSX

2014-03-11 Thread Martin Yara
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rob Zack robzac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, If AD is stopping Softimage, do they sell it? No, they don't and most probably they never will. It wouldn't make sense to sell it, business wise. What about buying the sources, making it open-sourced and porting to

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Exactly... Damn! I thought I saw Eric posting about they are porting Species to Maya. But don't know if portability from rigs in Softimage will be available to open in Maya. Perhpas Eric can enlighten us in this subject. --- Emilio Hernández

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Chris Marshall
I totally agree 100% with everything that's been said here. On 11 March 2014 12:04, Jean-Louis Billard jean-lo...@photon3.com wrote: Hi all, I'd like to chime in if I may. I run a very small company in Brussels called Digital Golem that's been around for almost 8 years, and our pipeline

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Matt Morris
I'd love to see it ported to fabric, and available for soft or maya :) On 11 March 2014 12:10, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com wrote: Exactly... Damn! I thought I saw Eric posting about they are porting Species to Maya. But don't know if portability from rigs in Softimage will be

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Matt Lowery
As a colleague of mine pointed out this morning, Autodesk should have told it's Softimage users what it needs to keep Softimage going. Admittedly that could be a bitter pill... We need to double the cost of maintenance to keep softimage going! Or We need to double the price of new license

RE: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread adrian wyer
outstanding and level headed, another excellent post that no-one at autodesk will bother to read. can we repost/retweet this? the more well thought out, eloquent reasons we can publicly share, demonstrating why autodesk should rethink their position, the better a _

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Alastair Hearsum
Hi Peter Very well put. Absolutely spot on. For me as an animation orientated generalist it is a great package which allows a host of low level built-in tools to be used together to create something that , as you put it, is greater than the some of the parts; a greatly underestimated aspect

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Yes. Bring back Softimage until ADSK really comes with something better, and most important: That we are convinced that it IS BETTER. We will migrate because of self conviction, not because we were ripped off. Meanwhile the more time is passing. The more clients you are loosing...

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hey Alastair, where can I grab the last version? Cheers!

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

2014-03-11 Thread philipp.oeser
There are people who like Andrew Prices tutorials as well (the guy who started the recent UI-discussion...) http://www.blenderguru.com Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com hat am 11. März 2014 um 12:27 geschrieben: There are a few free ones on CG cookie. You have to pay for the courses

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread peter_b
why now, I’m sure those few people from Autodesk we have been seeing here the last week will read what we have to say if we do so in a constructive way. of course, retweet, repost all you want. and do pay those few Softimage users in London a visit to get them to speak up as well! From:

Re: Your postings...

2014-03-11 Thread sc...@turbulenceffects.com
Trying not to be reactionary regarding this post. Can you please explain what I mean by this? Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint - Reply message - From: Chris Vienneau chris.vienn...@autodesk.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Based on the Species mailinglist they're discussion about porting Species to other platforms, Fabric Engine included. I won't be done tomorrow, but Eric and Chris are very talented guys, so I trust that they'll come up with a solution that would suit everyone :-) 2014-03-11 13:17 GMT+01:00 Matt

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread peter_b
thanks for speaking up Jean-Louis. Digital Golem is certainly one of those Softimage studios punching well above their weight. From: Emilio Hernandez Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:29 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer Yes.

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
I never new Digital Golem was a Softy house, or i would have been round last year :) On 11 March 2014 12:49, pete...@skynet.be wrote: thanks for speaking up Jean-Louis. Digital Golem is certainly one of those Softimage studios punching well above their weight. *From:* Emilio Hernandez

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Eric Thivierge
Hey all, In terms of exporting a rig from Softimage to Maya using Species, the only thing you can do right now is export an FBX of the skin and deformers. Simple constraints will go over with curve object controllers to an extent but I doubt anything useful will go over. Unfortunately. As

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Greg Punchatz
Greg, can I post your letter on Facebook? PLEASE!

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Marco Peixoto
Im testing Advanced Skeleton ( http://www.animationstudios.com.au/advancedskeleton ) and im really liking all the streamline workflow of building it, they even have a NICE feature of auto weights on simple boxes than can later be transferred into the main geometry for fine tuning, at first look it

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread rs3d
Very well Jean-Louis...exactly what i think...it's not only at a studio level,at the individual level also! we all made a significant efort to learn a this software,our tool..we have to master so many crafts inside 3d itself,character animation,lighting,materials,scripting...that alone is a

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
My advice is if you are thinking to migrate to Maya for rigging is the following: 1. Take a deeep breath. 2. Make sure you have plenty of time to deliver. 3. Buy some Pepto Bismol or some heartburn relief. 4. Wear a hat. (This last one will avoid that you will become bald). If you can

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread Nicolas Esposito
Reading the Maya features request from Softimage users and based on what you're saying, especially regarding rigging, I'm kinda scared... For f*** sake, I'm not a TD and I don't know how to write python/JS code, I'm a freelance mostly working in game development and Architectural visualization,

Re: Your postings...

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Chapman
I think he is commenting on the bounces (From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]) which I imagine are from the sheer volume of traffic lately. ie if the list server can barely cope with the current traffic any more lists added on the same server is

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread peter_b
From: Alastair Hearsum Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:24 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer Hi Peter Very well put. Absolutely spot on. ... Thanks Alastair, I would personally like a longer period of transition. Alastair And

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Francisco Criado
Aleready posted on facebook and linkedin. Maybe with Glassworks and Janimation letters, some any other influent companies would like to support? the mill? shed? whiskytree? animal logic? come on guys! F. 2014-03-11 11:29 GMT-03:00 pete...@skynet.be: *From:* Alastair Hearsum

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Daniel Jahnel
Good stuff Alastair, what also really fucks me off is that in the last 2 years with the takeover by Arnold as the primary render engine for most SI users it has opened up big time! In combination with the powerful ICE features of SI all of a sudden SI houses are producing work at a complexity

Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users

2014-03-11 Thread Daniel Sweeney
Hi, Don't think we will be transitioning to Maya, but just saw a pretty impressive reel from a TD for maya, https://vimeo.com/88619343. Looks far too technical for me, but don't know if he has open sourced his tools that he shows in the video. ta,

Re: Softimage Opensource + MacOSX

2014-03-11 Thread Alan Fregtman
They will not sell it; as Martin eluded to, that would not make sense. In the parallel universe where they did, I'm sure it was more than $20m because the purchase reportedly cost them ~$35m, so I imagine at the very least they'd want their full initial sum back. An OSX port will never happen

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Greg Punchatz
Chris V.. For me it would be different than some other folks, but these are the things that would ease my transition. 1. Ptex support 2. Udim support 3.Remove the current HQ viewport and port the max or maya version if possible. 4. More robust cluster support..from API to render passes. 5.Multi

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Francisco Criado
It would be nice if it posted on autodesk area too, like the one from Alastair, so we can share that link. F. 2014-03-11 11:41 GMT-03:00 Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com: Aleready posted on facebook and linkedin. Maybe with Glassworks and Janimation letters, some any other influent

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Greg Punchatz
Done On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.comwrote: It would be nice if it posted on autodesk area too, like the one from Alastair, so we can share that link. F. 2014-03-11 11:41 GMT-03:00 Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com: Aleready posted on

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Alastair Hearsum
Daniel My open letter has got a lot of attention. I would encourage you to do something similar with the company name behind you. It seems to get some results however small. At the risk of sounding patronising and contrary to my own behaviour on facebook in recent weeks, I'd say keep it calm

Re: Softimage Opensource + MacOSX

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Zack
Hi Martin, Alan, You mean we'll have to wait till AD become bankrupt to get a chance seeying Softimage's codebase... damn, that can take more then 2 years I guess :) Yeah ok, there is this Microsoft vendorlocked piece of software inside Soft, so its not only VB that could be ported to JScript. So

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Andres Stephens
+1 From: Alastair Hearsum Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎March‎ ‎11‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎16‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Daniel My open letter has got a lot of attention. I would encourage you to do something similar with the company name behind you. It seems to get some results however

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Daniel Jahnel
At the risk of contradicting myself here, we are actually very calm here...The damage is done, Autodesk will have a very hard standpoint in the future development of the company...There are other solutions, not just buying into the next product may it be Autodesk, Foundry or Maxon, but rather

Nice making of in Modo

2014-03-11 Thread Angus Davidson
https://vimeo.com/75893842 One man shop with Modo table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style=width:100%; tr td align=left style=text-align:justify;font face=arial,sans-serif size=1 color=#99span style=font-size:11px;This communication is intended for the addressee only.

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Griswold
I sincerely hope people from Autodesk are reading these letters because I think it describes the situation perfectly. If ADSK had just unveiled some amazing, next-generation DCC that combined all the good parts of Max, Maya and Softimage into one amazing package, I don't think you'd see nearly as

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi Alastair, Agreed. You did a fantastic job with your letter, and the more company owners, industry heads of departments and managers speaking out the better. As you say, they would generally feel like they have been given the cold shoulder by a supplier who then want's to sell you another

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

2014-03-11 Thread Ahmed Barakat
I would sure like to take a look at it aabara...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: 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

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Nic Groot Bluemink
Well written Alastair, thank you. Nic

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Morten Bartholdy
To you Peter, Greg and Alastair - thank you for expressing our (my) sentiments so thoroughly and eloquently in public. I hope the waves you and the userbase make will have some impact and make an impression at Autodesk where it matters. As we go through the listing of why we use Softimage and how

Re: Nice making of in Modo

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Interesting, would love to see the Dorrito effect implemented in modo, that way we would have a 4 way comparison :P maya xsi C4D Also hair in Modo seems interesting, you never hear much about it, i don't know if it is a full system yet in terms of dynamics, but people seem to be doing pretty

just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Tim Borgmann
Hi, unfortunately my english is not good enough to express my feelings and thoughts about all this in a good and polite way and I think some mails like the open letter from Alastair or the mails from Greg, Peter, Jean, Sly, Daniel and so on express them much better than I could do. I'm just

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

2014-03-11 Thread Andres Stephens
Oh woops, not sure if this went to the list. =P I’m more a watcher to the list, not really a contributor, so still learning the ropes. Original message: I play around in a quiet little forum dedicated to the once alive and thriving trueSpace community. Like Softimage, it was a small little

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Exactly Paul. I believe that all of we were first attracted to Softimage becuase we believed in it. Not because we were forced to use it or learn it. It was into that process of knowing Softimage, that we got in love with it. If only ADSK would understand this... They should first deliver

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Actually I would like to extend my thanks to all of those who have voiced their concerns this way. Morten Den 11. marts 2014 kl. 17:07 skrev Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk: To you Peter, Greg and Alastair - thank you for expressing our (my) sentiments so thoroughly and eloquently

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Juan Brockhaus
So much truth here. Yet AD only cares about numbers... What annoys me the most (amongst other things) is the way this all happened. It shows total ignorance towards (part of) their customers. and AD can try to explain whatever and however they want, but What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello again guys I am trying to put all this letters together and publish them. If you care to send me the letters will be easier to post, instead of browsing through this post. Tim I believe that we the freelancers can make a single one and start signing at the bottom so we will have a

RE: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Thank you for listening Chris! I am sure Greg wouldn't mind me adding to this, so here is a short list of 3rd party devs you could reach out to: - Eric Mootz, Mootzoid.com - i...@mootzoid.com - Helge Mathee or Paul Doyle, Fabric Engine - i...@fabricengine.com - Holger Scönberger, Binary

ShapeSizeAbsolute

2014-03-11 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Hello, ShapeSizeAbsolute does not work on anything but strand points and segments. I have a need to set the shape on a strand to something like cones or spheres but also need the ability to set the shape size to be equivalent to pixel as with ShapeSizeAbsolute. Has anyone developed a

Re: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Extruding a curve in Maya requires scripting??? You have got to be kidding me. Morten Den 11. marts 2014 kl. 03:43 skrev Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com: Very nice letter Alastair! Hard to

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Count the small shops in on the freelancer one Emilio - just a suggestion. Morten Den 11. marts 2014 kl. 18:06 skrev Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.com: Hello again guys I am trying to put all this letters together and publish them. If you care to send me the letters will be easier to

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Wuijster
+1 Straight from the heart. Applicable to the freelancer, and the (very) small teams trying to be competitive in advertising. Rob \/-\/\/ On 11-3-2014 17:21, Tim Borgmann wrote: Hi, unfortunately my english is not good enough to express my feelings and thoughts

RE: Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
A curve can be extruded to a surface in one click. My guess is that they might have needed to preprocess the AI curve to make it useful, or the extrusion was needed as a poly mesh, which in that case would have required the resulting surface to be converted. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Doeke Wartena
Opening the sdk will mean less of a reason to switch to another product so i don't think it will happen cause ADSK prefers you buy cough cough maya. 2014-03-11 18:06 GMT+01:00 Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk: Thank you for listening Chris! I am sure Greg wouldn't mind me adding

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Whisky tree might have a guy or two ? given the stuff they have been putting out, surely Blur too, the guys at Hybrid ? and of course their might be some developers on the Asian market ? On 11 March 2014 17:06, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: Thank you for listening Chris!

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
They have already stated that their decision was not motivated by cost or competition. they have nothing to loose by opening the SDK to a few if not all third party Dev's and extending the shelf life buy a couple of years so people get an adequate chance to affect subsequent transitions. On 11

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

2014-03-11 Thread Daniel G
I had an idea the other day: what if we crowdfunded a LOT of money -- $5-10 million, say. And (once raised), offer to buy Softimage outright from Autodesk. If they pass it will be held in trust and used to pay for a small army of full-time developers to add functionality to Blender, such as an ICE

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

2014-03-11 Thread Daniel G
(I should clarify that if AD allowed the purchase, then SI would be made open source, with it's own Blender Foundation equivalent.) On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Daniel G simpletang...@gmail.com wrote: I had an idea the other day: what if we crowdfunded a LOT of money -- $5-10 million,

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Leendert A. Hartog
Tim Borgmann schreef op 11-3-2014 17:21: unfortunately my english is not good enough to express my feelings and thoughts about all this You could've easily left out the remark about your English. Nothing wrong with that. It's a very impressive statement! -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage

Re: Export rigs from Softimage to Maya

2014-03-11 Thread David Gallagher
I've done a lot of exporting. I use slightly earlier versions of Maya and Softimage for maximum animator compatibility, so maybe this is easier with later versions of Softimage/Maya. It takes me DAYS to transfer everything perfectly for our AnimSchool rigs. And it sort of works -- for the

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Rares Halmagean
So true, so true. I'd like to eco how amazing softimage is for individual freelancers and small shops, especially since it's been backed by the talented td and programmers here and online. I'll add that softimage will continue to be my tool of choice for years to come. This makes it easier

Re: Nice making of in Modo

2014-03-11 Thread Tim Crowson
The guy you'd want to talk to about rigging in Modo is Rich Hurrey at Pixar. He has a lengthy series called the Rigging Master Course http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/store/riggingmastercourse/ which was made with an older version of Modo (501!) prior to deformers being added. He has been

Re: Nice making of in Modo

2014-03-11 Thread Cristobal Infante
I also believe hippydrome http://www.hippydrome.com/ (ex-pixar) does his tutorials in modo I believe he says it's the most similar thing to whatever they use in pixar. https://vimeo.com/hippydrome On 11 March 2014 18:15, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: The guy you'd want

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Greg Punchatz
Doeke, IMHO sending soft out to pasture VS to the glue factory is the best PR move AD could make. Doing that would actually make a huge difference if we decide to stick with AD... and eventually move to Maya or even better a whole new app they are building behind closed doors (I hope). On Tue,

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Mirko Jankovic
you really think that they are building something new when they said that they an;t even focus in supporting what they got so far and killing Softimage so that they can provide better for max and maya? How does completely new app that requires couple years of investment before gaining any profit

Re: just my 2 cents [Re:] Open letter to Autodesk

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hey fellows I will take Tim's letter as a template for the freelancers and small studios 2-5 people. Sounds reasonable? Of course if Tim agrees. Cheers! --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-11 12:03 GMT-06:00 Rares Halmagean

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Emilio Hernandez
I've hear a rumor that Autodesk is in area 51 taking notes from a superior intelligence... --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-11 12:50 GMT-06:00 Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com: you really think that they are building

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Greg Punchatz
I don't think that WAS the plan but things change. Lets say I have a pretty good record at reading the Tea leaves The thing is they CANT tell us even if they wanted to. There are some smart and not so smart folks up at AD but after trying to add to the maya code base for all

does anyone benefit at all from Softimage being killed?

2014-03-11 Thread Ed Manning
Serious question. Autodesk has gone on at some length about serving their ME customers better, not dispersing their resources on multiple applications, etc. We have now heard, especially here on the Softimage list, but also in other forums, from several companies and scores of individual users

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread phil harbath
from all the things luceric said here and on the community I thought he was pretty clear the next gen tool was Maya. From: Greg Punchatz Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3:06 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer I don't think that WAS

Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer

2014-03-11 Thread Rob Chapman
Imo there is no money to be made on one giant 'doitall' application any more. if anything ADSK seem to be moving away from the pro market and more towards consumer level apps on the cloud. Including 3d printing and behance networks On 11 Mar 2014 19:06, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote:

  1   2   >