If they were really aming for true innovation and experimenting the app that should be killed is Maya. That is the one that actually is drainning all of Autodesk resources into trying to make it float against competition. The one that is the buggiest with crashes here and there...
Who is going to believe that a small dev team of 8 people in Asia are the ones that they need for getting focused and innovative into the nextgen software.... and that Softimage was the stone in their path to make things happen.... ------------------------------------------------------- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. 2014-03-11 16:48 GMT-06:00 Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] < j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>: > Maya? Next gen tool? In the same sentence? .... Maybe in Y2K > > > > -- > > Joey Ponthieux > > __________________________________________________ > > Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not > > represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *phil harbath > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3:12 PM > > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: A more graceful retirement - my counter offer > > > > 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 <g...@janimation.com> > > *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 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 this time I am pretty sure that they > know it's busting at the seams as we do... if not more. If making a new > product lets them be able to create new competitive tech more quickly and > less expensively they would be silly not to invest in a new platform. > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 fits AD profile??? > > It doesn't. They are killing Si even if it makes any profit at all, making > new application that wouldn't give anything back for years.. hardly AD way. > > > > >
