and if Maya does adopt ICE, well, then we users who are familiar with ICE stand to gain, as it would make learning maya a little less painful.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, David Gallagher < [email protected]> wrote: > > Good thoughts. The irritating thing to me is that the Maya/Max world > doesn't understand the workflow strengths of Softimage. If those tools > elsewhere turn out to be better, that's great. But lately it just feels > like momentum is the driving force, not quality of software. > > Dave G > > > On 12/19/2012 12:43 PM, Mathieu Leclaire wrote: > > I'm sorry... but how exactly does it hurt the user? If what you are > hearing happens to be true... doesn't that just mean good news for Maya? I > don't see any bad news for Softimage here. Softimage ain't loosing > anything. It's Maya whose gaining. > > Even if Softimage ends up loosing some user base because they are moving > to Maya or something else and Softimage stops evolving due to lack of > users... Well, that's the cycle of life. In the end, ain't that the beauty > of our industry? Things are evolving rapidly. There are always new > softwares, new technologies to learn and adopt. Old non evolving > technologies slowly die to make way to new better technologies. I love > Softimage like all of you and I would be sad if it stopped evolving. But > I'm a big boy. I'll adopt a new one if it helps our work get better. Sure, > there would be an adaptation period if that happens, but in the end, > softwares are just tools. Our jobs aren't in jeopardy. Only your comfort > zone is. And that is only true IF your wort case scenario actually happens > (i.e. new ICE like interface in Maya forces Softimage users to switch > software and in doing so kills Softimage's future). > > I think this process is completely natural and healthy. If Softimage is to > die, it's not going to happen in the blink of an eye. It's going to be a > slow natural transition towards that state. I hope not. I too hope it will > keep evolving and keep it's place in the industry... but if it doesn't, > then I'll be happy to face a new challenge and learn a new software. > > -Mathieu > > Tim Marinov wrote: > > If it was publicly it won't be rumor and everyone will know.As I said this > is something I 've heard recently and I really hope isn't true.I like > Softimage XSI and what is happening with it lately, and these rumors really > hurts long XSI users. > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Graham Bell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> publicly > > > > >
