There hasn't been any official word on the guys that have moved sideways over to the Maya team, but to be fair, Chinny has in the past piped up and said that the future of Soft is secure. Everything else that's been discussed in this thread is pure speculation.
On 18 April 2012 11:26, Mirko Jankovic <[email protected]>wrote: > It is a bit bad that even after so many concerns displayed from customer > about Softimage and AD's plans for it, that not a single official line of > word was put out. > Is it so hard to let people know what is going on and where does it all > lead? > For someone that is just starting, choosing a software is a big deal and > as much as you are saying another software just a another tool, one thing > is for someone with 10-20 years of experience to switch between tools > when he probably already tried all or most different versions and bin > following all of them during past years, and completely different thing for > someone who is jsut starting out. > And spending 10 years before they can be industry ready... not sure that > is something you would advise your kids right? :) > People need to learn something that will get them to work fast at least at > first and then maybe start learning others. > But most of them will stay with what they learned especially when it is > pushed all the time ahead of other option, no matter if they are better or > not. > And ofc you get same cycle, people will learn what is considered > mainstream, you will have more stuff using that, and then next generation > will keep adding more and more to same pool. > > But getting more and more OT. > Thing is is that would be nice to get any insight into plans for our > software of choice. That is all. >
