99% of what listings, VFX jobs? That's Maya country for sure, but there
are more fields of application than that in 3d - games, visualization,
motion graphics...
Everbody wants to do VFX... loud, fancy, cool... the most rewarding
playground for the ego...
Softimage probably shouldn't try too hard to shine just there, because
that's only building up more and more pressure and competition with Maya.
Why not go for a more widespread clientele, as a general purpose 3d
application? Loose market share here, gain it there...
It's a good thing not to filter opportunities at hand too much...
Am 2012-12-20 08:07, schrieb Sandy Sutherland:
OK my take on this - whatever AD is doing is pretty pointless worrying
about or complaining about, it only winds you up - so all I want to
add is this -
I have found that it is very difficult to find work as a Softimage
veteran now, pretty much 99% of listings are for Maya users, and
unlike the older days when they would cross-train, they are looking
for veteran Maya users, obviously to try and weed out the hordes of
Maya wannabees - one of the drawbacks of Maya being so popular and
accessible. Anyway - even if they are not going to do any of the
'rumoured' actions, AD's marketing direction is possibly drying up the
opportunities for us older experienced softies. This in itself is the
biggest worry for me, even if Softimage carries on as it is now, to
get work opportunities, it has come to the stage where one has to
consider jumping into something else!
my feeble 0.02c
S.
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