Well, security is an illusion anyway, no matter what Chinny is saying or others are fantasizing. If Autodesk one day decides that XSI is out, it will be out and you'll get it as a subscription benefit with your cereals... ;-)
http://illicoweb.videotron.com/illicoweb/commandites/115764/Mr.-Ramesh-1-04 http://illicoweb.videotron.com/illicoweb/commandites/117224/Mr.-Ramesh-1-05 Go for the strawberries :-) As a freelancer/small company most of my clients don't care what software I'm using, so I'm in a different boat from many on this list. I was VERY angry from the day Autodesk bought XSI and just couldn't get over it. It actually cost me all my love for 3D after a while. I guess it's a flaw in my personality. And in a way, I never did fit into the Softimage community anyway. Now after my sabbatical, I changed quite a few things, one of them is concentrating on software by humans I can relate to and pricing that is actually related to what I get. With MoI, Thea Render and my newest acquisition: modo 601, I feel very well served and found my joy of creating again. I'll keep my last version of XSI as a modeller and for some ICE work every now and then, but it's good to be out of the vicious "subscription" idiocy and the whole bad Autodesk vibe for a change. When I watched the video that was posted here a while ago of that Autodesk guy who goes on raving about how much money they make, it became even clearer as it was before that this is not my world. It's interesting that the two people I found the most relateable-to from the SI team, Halfdan and Luc-Eric, are now also out. Thanks guys for your honesty over the years, may your future be bright! Seems like a good time to move on :-) Cheers! Tom On 18 April 2012 12:53, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > > >
