As you may remember I owned and operated a Softimage training center in Chicago. I still get calls from former clients and colleagues who work in post-production creating special effects for commercials and corporate video. They are primarily Maya users but need to do stuff that Maya isn't always well suited to handle. Since Softimage is part of their Maya purchase, they install it and use ICE for particle and other FX stuff, but that's about it. For all the rest of their work they stick with Maya because it's familiar to them. If Maya were to get an ICE equivalent, they probably wouldn't use Softimage anymore. Old habits are hard to break and many people don't like learning any more than necessary to get the job done.
I'm not making up BS if that's the angle you're taking. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:12 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Rumors Sorry for the reduced quote, but how many of those do you actually know or hear about? I can count exactly zero. I have yet to hear about ANYBODY using Soft just for ICE and going back and forth, unless they already had licenses and reason to have it around. Those who would use Soft solely for ICE, coming from Maya, are already, or will in the future when coming to that scenario, use Houdni instead. On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com<mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote: I should add - the fear is once the Maya equivalent of ICE goes live, many current Maya users now using ICE will likely revert back to Maya's built
