I don't like long-winded emotional eulogies. In the light of things, they are a waste of time. I'm trying to figure out in what shape those two abominations are now.
I was watching this video https://vimeo.com/88391123 and although it was impressive, one moment in particular pierced right through my ears and exploded in my head. At around 20 minute mark he says: "We had a bunch of UV errors, the shaders were wrong, so the night before delivery, i had to reconstruct the entire shot from scratch." Now, I remember a situation we had when a fully rigged, fully animated character in maya had to have some light modifications done to his topology and UV's replaced. It. Was. Hell. I don't know how we solved it. I think a person got involved, black magic was used, i clearly remember a goat missing, etc. Granted, this was long time ago - 2007ish i think. But for all its faults, i never recall a moment when i had to get up from XSI and flat out smash my head with a brick. I dread what lies ahead because non-destructiveness is a really low level paradigm. I don't feel the two alternatives we are being pushed into have the flexibility we got accustomed to. Am i wrong about this?
