As I said before, students are only part of the answer, but part none the less...
It IS working and the beauty of it is that AD has to do very little, we (the pros in it) are already doing it, the recruiting, the training, etc., and it works. Some go back to Maya, but none in my experience want to. All I would like is "educational licensing awareness", and AD/Softimage visibility at schools. Help put the industry together with the schools, no educational program or any of that, just help me find talented students and I'll do the rest. John Sent from my iPhone On Sep 13, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Maurice Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > Absolutely any student can go to the education portal and download it for > free for 3 years. And the product we sell to education institutions is this > one: > http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=13395078 > It is true that the fact that students can access any Autodesk product for > free for 3 years is only just starting to get out there > > Sent from my iPad > > On 2012-09-13, at 7:00 PM, "Tim Leydecker" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Maurice, > > > isn´t Softimage available as part of those affordable student license > packages? > > Afaik, it´s pretty easy nowadays to get legal access to Autodesk software for > education > if you´re a student but I´m not sure everybody actually knows how easy it is > to get at that? > > At least for a student, the times are better than they where 10 years ago. > > For me myself, I am glad to soon have Houdini (up to 1920px) and Blender at > my fingertips > for those bits of smoke I need or can arse myself into doing actually but I > don´t expect > AD to clone SideFX´s learning/access model any time soon, even if I now have > decided to > skip my subscription beyond 2012 releases and to wait for an "all inclusive > suite" package > update promo to get back up to date next year when I can better say what I´ll > actually need > and bring may Maya/Max/Softimage/Mudbox/Motionbuilder pack back into 2013, > along with a nice > render engine or two maybe... > > --- > > In terms of suites in general, I was very happy to get a Max/Softimage bundle > including Mudbox and Motionbuilder. > > That gave me the option to extend to Max, while having Maya (as well here) > for my gross of income and Softimage > for my personal favourite tool. > > Admittedly, I didn´t really use Max much in the end and am currently more or > less completely loaded with getting > (back) into ZBrush and all sorts of other stuff related to modeling, > lighting, shading and rendering but the > real bonus I´m still seing is what the suite bundle gave me access to. > > I could have also ended up using FumeFX and Max mostly or ICE, the options > where there. You just can´t do everyting well. > > Personally, the suite gave me the freedom to lean to one side, even roll over > and take half a year off and > just do whatever I feel like getting better at doing it. > > Softimage is a very good base for that, regardless of the 10+ years of Maya I > could show off with. > > --- > > > Long story short, I am glad there´s the suites and I hope for a catch all > promo but > I dislike SAP benefit marketing pushing, late subscription fees or > Maya/Softimage sp1/sap/sap_sp1/.. > version horrors. That really, really doesn´t help stability, especially when > working remote and > with mixed levels of technically savy people (like producers). > > I like vanilla or mint condition... doesn´t need to be the latest and > greatest but solid. > > The 2012´s did that nicely. I´ll have to wait for CrowdFX... > > Cheers, > > > tim > > > > > > > > On 14.09.2012 00:25, Graham Bell wrote: > I'd just like to point out that Stephen wasn't fired, he was unfortunately > among the layoffs. > I know it's being pedantic, but let's keep to the facts. > > From: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss > Sent: 13 September 2012 22:50 > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: In case you missed it.. > > Stop thinking of advertising/ demonstration/ documentation and education as > isolated entities. > in doing so you can make the money you spend massively more productive. > > look at the success of stephen blairs blog: http://xsisupport.com/ > ( Its criminally insane you fired him by the way ) > its a go to site for anyone using ice. > > With a little work something like that could be dressed up as a showcase of > softimage work and a technical reference of production techniques. > An inspiration to students, and something to pique the curiosity of > professionals using other softwares. > > _sam > > > > > <winmail.dat>
