As I find out more and more about what is going on behind the scenes
at at AD in regards to Softimage (plus all the others) the more and more
angry I get. And frankly the more I want my support money back, seriously.
This has been a huge bait and switch scam.... I feel like I have been
consistently lied to about the future of Soft, there is even a video of
a "product manager of the week" telling me the future of Softimage is
_good_ on the Autodesk site. Buyers remorse is one thing, but frankly
no one has been honest with us about where all of this was headed, in
fact I would say that I was deliberately lied to by the PR machine that
is AD. The video of Daniel Tutino talking about the future of softimage
is a prime example of AD misleading us. What's sad if you watch the
video, he is acting like a really bad liar . ( I have the video
downloaded just in case I need it to back up my case against AD.)
First off I wish I would have NEVER bought a suite... I did not want a
single dollar of mine going to support Maya, but apparently if you
jumped on the suite bandwagon your money went toward a bazzilion Maya
developers, even if you checked "softimage is my main interest" in the
AD suite surveys. I wanted a Softimage branded suite for that very
reason. Now from what I gather soft has less developers than my hand
has fingers, and Maya has over a hundred?? WTF are all those developers
working on, really? 100 devs working under the bad management of AD guys
cant even compete with 15 devs working at an under funded Softimage run
by Avid .
I am also hugely disappointed in Mudbox... The only thing I ended up
using in the whole suite is SOFTIMAGE.. Zbrush and Mari got my personal
dollars because they delivered while AD promised. Now Luc Eric is all
but saying Mudbox is going into Maya on Softimage forums.... Do the
powers that be at AD still think putting everything into one app makes
sense?? There is a reason why niche products do a better job at niche
work :)
I would be happy with if AD made an attempt at a next gen app, I would
give that a shot....but I passed on Maya for a reason.
I paid my support so Softimage could be developed further....not so AD
could put a nail in its coffin.
Feeling like I just got robbed... is there something we can do as a
group to get our voices heard? Anyone know any good lawyers that will
work for next years support money ;)
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*Greg Punchatz*
*Sr. Creative Director*
Janimation
214.823.7760
www.janimation.com <http://www.janimation.com>
