As the original poster, I just wanted to chime in. I despise Autodesk as a company. I think overall it's a shining example of everything that's wrong with huge multinational corporations. And, I've felt ever since the AD purchase of Softimage they've done almost nothing to promote it or dispel the rumors that it'll just be like Match Mover, Composite, or Sketchbook Designer - a free add-on - in the future.
BUT... when I saw Softimage at the top of the page, with a video promoting it as a valuable tool, I was pleasantly surprised and really was hoping to encourage AD to do more of the same. For me, I'll take Softimage being touted for ICE and Face Robot at the top of the ECS page any day of the week when you compare it to the virtual silent marketing campaign we've had so far. I'm hopeful that someone somewhere in AD's marketing department finally loaded Softimage for the first time ever and a light when off in their head - "hey, this Softimage thing is pretty amazing! We could sell this!" I mean, how long has nearly everyone on this list griped about the lack of Softimage being marketed? And now it's on the front page! Hurray for small victories!! So thank you to whomever is in charge of the Entertainment Creation Suite homepage! -Paul On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:34 AM, David Saber <[email protected]> wrote: > I completely agree with Mirko > The fate of this mailing list is linked to the fate of Softimage. If > Softimage's destiny is negative, how can the list stay positive? We > can't ignore the obvious. > So it's true, ranting does not give results. Now is the time for all > Softimage defenders to take clever actions... > > On 2013-09-30 23:09, Mirko Jankovic wrote: > > Actually if you read better you will see that SI users are supporting > > SI even more, and doom and gloom is not toward SI it self but to AD > > and what it is doing to it. Recent pol on si-community is confirming > > what most people feels, even if they kill SI will rather continue to > > use it in it;s current state than to switch to another AD product. > > So it is nothing negative towards Softimage, actually quite opposite. > > They are promoting ICE only and face robot tool that hasn;t bin > > touched in years, and promoting max as all around tool? Mote SI users > > never touched ICE then the did and are still using Softimage daily and > > mostly as small teams or freelancers one man show which is SI's > > strength. Get things done! It is the best character animation tool out > > there with best non linear workflow. I mean cmon, maya is running on > > glass legs and if you don;t have team of TDs to support you you can > > just wait till it's comes crumbling all over you as it does not leave > > any room for mistakes. ANyway again it is not negativity toward > > software, but towards how it is presented by AD. > > So when you have user base that feels so strongly about their software > > and feels like having part of them self's ripped from them.. what does > > it says about that particular software? is that really hard to > understand? > > > -------------------------- > To unsubscribe: mail [email protected] with subject > "unsubscribe" and reply to the confirmation email. >
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