have been going off again. Intimating the end of the line for soft. By this I assume the end of supported development from Autodesk, but will that make much difference? Isn't it the case that there has been no real development of any of the three packages in years, excepting perhaps ice? It can't simply be that maya will be the only software that people will end up using, there has to be a next generation surely as things evolve. If not, then an unsuported product is just as much use as a supported but unevolved one, right? I know lots of places that use soft, some of them exclusively so how long can they carry on with an unsupported product? There must be years of life left in soft and if places like MPC really are using ICE for crowd stuff then this has to add to it's life expectancy. I'm not against learning a new package whatsoever, but it has to be an improvement on what i've been using until now, and as somebody who spends all day in either ICE or the render region and render passes i have to say maya seems a backwards step, and if it is a backwards step then maya has room for improvement or even replacement perhaps. They could call it Maxsi perhaps. I would learn that... or will we be left in a stagnatting software pool simply because a few large studios are now backed into a corner? A>
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