Hey Sandy,
from what I´ve seen in your posts on this list, I would imagine
you´d pick up Maya pretty quickly and would bring long-standing production
experience to a project which is something that is actually getting rarer
nowadays.
I must admit that it is becoming more difficult to make HR or Producers
understand.
(depending on if it´s VFX or commercials job, different people press the hire
button)
But, neither Maya nor Max are difficult to use and a two week run-up (at
home,selfpaced?)
would sure make you feel you use it comfortably enough to solve technical
issues in a project.
Everything else you can´t controll, deadlines and expectations clash against
each other more and more.
It seems there´s less and less preparation or thinking through with generation
iphone, getting everything now.
That is in no way related to your personal skillset but a price a great many
seasoned artists have to pay
currently. The guys you have to talk to check their bullet points but don´t
understand the content any more...
If you want to get a nice, well funded, high quality output place to work,
check out Scanline VFX Vancouver.
A couple of my friends and collegues went there and are very, very happy at
work and in Vancouver in general.
It´s expensive to live there and have an occasional round of beers but you have
around 30 companies there that give
you any flavour, ranging from fire and forget to hire and fire and actually
valuing their artists as more than an asset.
I´d go there now if I would have already managed to stop smoking :-)
Cheers,
tim
On 20.12.2012 09:44, Sandy Sutherland wrote:
All jobs - VFX/Animation/etc.... pretty much all of the big players who used to
list any high end 3d software and cross-train - pretty much all asking for
experienced Maya now.
S.
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[[email protected]] on behalf of Eugen Sares
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*Sent:* 20 December 2012 10:36
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Rumors
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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<http://triggerfish.co.za/en>
<http://www.facebook.com/triggerfishanimation>
