ow my eyes!! On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]>wrote:
> Someone early on joked about the Friday Flashback that soon we would > be posting fetus pictures of Softimage founder Daniel Langlois. > Actually, that would be hilarious. (although perhaps crossing a fine > line between nostalgia and creepy. but hilarious. ) > > Looking at my stash of old Softimage stuff, I've picked up one > document I'd like to share before closing this vault. > > It's called the "Siggraph '99 Rude Q&A". Softimage XSI 1.0 shipped in May > 2000. > Lots of Softimage people have actually never seen this document. > > The document was given to every Softimage employee going to Siggraph > in 1999 and is meant to tell you what to say when people angrily ask > about that damn vaporware called Sumatra. It's RED to remind you to > NOT read in the PLANE where evil competitors might read them over your > shoulder! Yep, at the time the plane was a fantastic place to learn > about what the others were doing (no joke). > > Old timers (Matt? ) will no doubt add a bunch of things they remembers > from way back when... let's just say that this document has its share > of spin, lies and fantasy about what the management thought what this > never-happened December version 1999 Sumatra would be. If you adopted > XSI around 4.0, when it started to work, you'll miss a lot of what's > going on here: Stuff like the full SDK, or python, would take years > to come/ Softimage XSI continued to ship with Softimage|3D in the > box for a few years. > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/28988416@N07/sets/72157631746578927/ >
