I dont claim to know the bigger picture – but I’ll make a wild guess: Softimage is going to be more focussed on games from now on. To me, this team, as well as the move to Singapore seem in line with that.
Maya will remain targeted on film – and those from the softimage team moving to maya might do so because of this, besides not wanting to relocate. (or because maya is going to be the next gen platform?) Max will remain to be the one-for-all software. If you’re a softimage user in games this could prove to be a good change, if you’re a film customer not so much. Overlapping 3D softwares from the Autodesk portfolio aligning themselves more to different industries sounds like a reasonable strategy, though I wont claim to like that direction – and I hope I’m wrong. At least its clear where Autodesk puts their eggs (or is it?) - and its not like the film industry didn’t already largely move to Maya anyway. Anyways, good luck to old and new teams alike – regardless of what these changes mean. From: Stefan Andersson Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development) +1 to that. Good luck everyone! It's sad, but I'm not surprised. I hope the people in Singapore will have their jobs at least a year or two before the complimentary coffee cup from Autodesk shows up. Unlike Greg, I don't think anything good will come out from this (but he has always seen the glas half full and not half empty). But good news everyone! There are actually a lot of softwares out there which is just longing for your expertise and knowledge. And lots of black frames that needs content, and the frames doesn't give a **** what kind of software you used :) best regards stefan andersson On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Greg Punchatz <[email protected]> wrote: Good luck to you and everyone else... I truly cant thank all of you enough for the amazing ride softimage has been. All this does make me sad, but I hope something good comes out of it.... ohh and please make maya less stupid ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Punchatz Sr. Creative Director Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com On 4/19/2012 3:38 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: Well good luck Chin! I'm slightly sad to hear you've moved on. There was never anyone with more passion and raw enthusiasm for Sumatra/XSI/Softimage than you! Respect!! On Thursday, 19 April 2012, Jason Brynford-Jones wrote: Well like most others on the team who have posted, I too will be working with them on something new. Softimage is mature enough now and in very capable hands. While we will no longer be working on Softimage, we are all still here to help if the occasion arises. As you have seen, we are still on this list ;-) Chinny From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Gotzinger Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Intro to the new team (was RE: Softimage development) My god, what an awful thought. Chinny, please post! On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Is Chinny still there? :) When he leaves, that's when you can panic. regards stefan -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 2002 5762 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- STEFAN ANDERSSON // Creative Director // Mad Crew AB // http://www.madcrew.se
