RE: Student *free trial* for 3 years on Entertainment Creation Suit

[Maurice Patel]

Hi David,
Yes Softimage 2015 is part of the ultimate suite until Feb 1st 2016.
Availability and license term are different things. If a three year license is 
issued the software will work for three years. However the ability to download 
the software or to authorize a new license may not be available after that date.
Maurice

Maurice Patel
Tél:  514 954-7134
Cell: 514 242-6549

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Pierre Schiller
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:16 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Student *free trial* for 3 years on Entertainment Creation Suit

http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/entertainment-creation-suite-ultimate
Under the choices, is there "softimage" available? At least that´s what anyone 
reads on the promo page so you´ll know what core features you´ll get on the 
Entertainment creation suite for edu purposes.
So if I understand correctly any educational institution can still download 
softimage and have a FREE 3 year licence for educational purposes? What will 
happen now that we only got softimage 2015, and there will be no more extension 
of "free 3 years use"?
Anyone´s got more insight about this?
Thanks.
David R.

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Portfolio 2013
Cinema & TV production
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RE: Student *free trial* for 3 years on Entertainment Creation Suit

[Angus Davidson]

It’s a very moot point as Softimage in education died from the moment of that 
the EOL was announced. Unfortunately one of the many , many things that 
Autodesk didn’t think through about that announcement was the fact that  for 
edu institutions in  many countries are not legally allowed to offer a year of 
course that teaches EOL software. So unlike Softimage Commercial that was 
allowed to continue for a while we were taken out back and double tapped in the 
head. All they had to do was say End of Development and it would have been a 
totally different case.

The sheer amount of frustration of working with students in Maya compared to 
softimage is staggering. So much time wasted trying to do the simplest things. 
We have also had 3 weeks of students protests that have thrown our whole 
schedule out of whack.  We could have got it back on Softimage. No f’ing way on 
Maya. Apologies to Maurice as this isn’t directed at you specifically.

Guess I am stil bitter.



From: Maurice Patel [mailto:maurice.pa...@autodesk.com]
Sent: 04 November 2015 06:32 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: Student *free trial* for 3 years on Entertainment Creation Suit

Hi David,
Yes Softimage 2015 is part of the ultimate suite until Feb 1st 2016.
Availability and license term are different things. If a three year license is 
issued the software will work for three years. However the ability to download 
the software or to authorize a new license may not be available after that date.
Maurice

Maurice Patel
Tél:  514 954-7134
Cell: 514 242-6549

From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>
 [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Pierre Schiller
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:16 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
Subject: Student *free trial* for 3 years on Entertainment Creation Suit

http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/entertainment-creation-suite-ultimate
Under the choices, is there "softimage" available? At least that´s what anyone 
reads on the promo page so you´ll know what core features you´ll get on the 
Entertainment creation suite for edu purposes.
So if I understand correctly any educational institution can still download 
softimage and have a FREE 3 year licence for educational purposes? What will 
happen now that we only got softimage 2015, and there will be no more extension 
of "free 3 years use"?
Anyone´s got more insight about this?
Thanks.
David R.

--
Portfolio 2013<http://be.net/3dcinetv>
Cinema & TV production
Video Reel<https://vimeo.com/3dcinetv/reel2012>

 

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