I totally agree, I am hoping that they will get the same sense of joy I found when migrating and all those long term Maya issues I was having just dissolved into a distant bad memory. The point I keep emphasising with people is that Maya is great if you are a big enough studio to support it, but being a small studio we have so many needs 'out of the box'... No software covers it all without some customisation, but soft falls far less short than all the others in my opinion.
I always preface this with the fact I stuck with Maya for 10 years to at least lend some credibility to my argument! N From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandy Sutherland Sent: Monday, 21 January 2013 4:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Rigging resources The BIGGEST Challange I have found is to persuade them to try and stop thinking in Maya if you get what I mean - they know what they want to do, BUT it is likely to be a different method and if they get stuck in the 'I would do it THIS way in Maya' rut, then they start to blame and hate the Software - which is why it would be best to toss a few questions here on what they are trying to achieve and see what methods and tricks come up so they can start to wrap their thinking on a Softimage workflow. S. Sandy Sutherland<mailto:[email protected]> | Technical Supervisor [http://triggerfish.co.za/en/wp-content/uploads/udf_foundry/images/logo.png]<http://triggerfish.co.za/en> [http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/ym/x/lFV-lsMcC_0.png]<http://www.facebook.com/triggerfishanimation> [https://si0.twimg.com/a/1349296073/images/resources/twitter-bird-white-on-blue.png]<http://www.twitter.com/triggerfishza> ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Nick Angus [[email protected]] Sent: 21 January 2013 08:20 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Rigging resources Good call Raf and Sandy, given the talent on this list it makes absolute sense to ask the questions here! I will get her to sign up. I always find trying to maintain someone's interest in learning to do a task in a new app when they already have mastered in another is probably the greatest challenge. Probably her brick wall may be the fact she uses so much mel script that she will no doubt want to re-task with Python. N From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Monday, 21 January 2013 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rigging resources In my experience rigging is largely about recruiting people with a high pain threshold and whipping them the right amount for them to live in the gray area between motivational pain, without quite pushing them into rebellion. It's a fine art that one can only cultivate when being in too many meetings to do anything producting oneself. If that's not available as a method though the right question on the right list can go a long way :)
