Absolutely any student can go to the education portal and download it for free for 3 years. And the product we sell to education institutions is this one: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=13395078 It is true that the fact that students can access any Autodesk product for free for 3 years is only just starting to get out there
Sent from my iPad On 2012-09-13, at 7:00 PM, "Tim Leydecker" <bauero...@gmx.de<mailto:bauero...@gmx.de>> wrote: Hi Maurice, isn´t Softimage available as part of those affordable student license packages? Afaik, it´s pretty easy nowadays to get legal access to Autodesk software for education if you´re a student but I´m not sure everybody actually knows how easy it is to get at that? At least for a student, the times are better than they where 10 years ago. For me myself, I am glad to soon have Houdini (up to 1920px) and Blender at my fingertips for those bits of smoke I need or can arse myself into doing actually but I don´t expect AD to clone SideFX´s learning/access model any time soon, even if I now have decided to skip my subscription beyond 2012 releases and to wait for an "all inclusive suite" package update promo to get back up to date next year when I can better say what I´ll actually need and bring may Maya/Max/Softimage/Mudbox/Motionbuilder pack back into 2013, along with a nice render engine or two maybe... --- In terms of suites in general, I was very happy to get a Max/Softimage bundle including Mudbox and Motionbuilder. That gave me the option to extend to Max, while having Maya (as well here) for my gross of income and Softimage for my personal favourite tool. Admittedly, I didn´t really use Max much in the end and am currently more or less completely loaded with getting (back) into ZBrush and all sorts of other stuff related to modeling, lighting, shading and rendering but the real bonus I´m still seing is what the suite bundle gave me access to. I could have also ended up using FumeFX and Max mostly or ICE, the options where there. You just can´t do everyting well. Personally, the suite gave me the freedom to lean to one side, even roll over and take half a year off and just do whatever I feel like getting better at doing it. Softimage is a very good base for that, regardless of the 10+ years of Maya I could show off with. --- Long story short, I am glad there´s the suites and I hope for a catch all promo but I dislike SAP benefit marketing pushing, late subscription fees or Maya/Softimage sp1/sap/sap_sp1/.. version horrors. That really, really doesn´t help stability, especially when working remote and with mixed levels of technically savy people (like producers). I like vanilla or mint condition... doesn´t need to be the latest and greatest but solid. The 2012´s did that nicely. I´ll have to wait for CrowdFX... Cheers, tim On 14.09.2012 00:25, Graham Bell wrote: I'd just like to point out that Stephen wasn't fired, he was unfortunately among the layoffs. I know it's being pedantic, but let's keep to the facts. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss Sent: 13 September 2012 22:50 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. Stop thinking of advertising/ demonstration/ documentation and education as isolated entities. in doing so you can make the money you spend massively more productive. look at the success of stephen blairs blog: http://xsisupport.com/ ( Its criminally insane you fired him by the way ) its a go to site for anyone using ice. With a little work something like that could be dressed up as a showcase of softimage work and a technical reference of production techniques. An inspiration to students, and something to pique the curiosity of professionals using other softwares. _sam
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