Irony is the guys who lead Softimage during that era are now in charge of Autodesk M+E.
Matt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefan Andersson Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Maurice Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > this thread http://yfrog.com/h0t6exxtj: > Although I can't say I am particularly fond of that diagram myself > (it's rather ugly), it actually came out of a study commissioned from > a third Funny how everyone from Autodesk tells us they "dont agree" or "think it's ugly". But still they decide to use it. I remember when Discreet Logic was bought. Funny thing happened... the Logic went away. But Autodesk is not the only one to blame. It's the people who ran the Softimage company back in the late 90's. The battle was actually lost the year 2000 with the release of Softimage|XSI. Maya had gained so much popularity, and when Sumatra was finally released we were given a software that could only do Nurbs and only render with Mental Ray. It was totally useless and closed. Maya was the total opposite, useful and open. What we are seeing now is actually something that happened 12 years ago. The battle was lost already back then. My regret is only that I don't jump onto the Maya wagon back then, but stayed in Softimage|3D. I should have switched and learned MEL. Anyhow. As you were... /stefan -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com
