marc petit was meant to be that person no? insert meme picture of captain luc picard holding his head in his hands http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/001/582/picard-facepalm.jpg?1240934151
softimage princess locked up in her tower of doom - who will be her champion now? On 20 November 2013 08:22, Stefan Kubicek <[email protected]> wrote: > Luc, that sounds like Maya will finally have it's user interface replaced > with a usable interface. > It's still a pity, I'd much rather see you working on Softimage than on > anything else :-/ > > Five years ago I was arguing with a former colleague that if you'd start > to develop Maya in > the right directions it would still take at least five years to get it up > to the reliability > and userfriendliness we have in Softimage, and only if Softs development > was stagnant during > that period. In hindsight this estimate was overly optimistic. > Given the rate of development judging by past releases I'd say it's off by > at least another > three years, and even only if you guys manage to cram Bifrost into it in a > usable way like ICE > was crammed into Softimage, and do some major rework of the GUI. > > In an attempt to think way out of the box I suggest we find a way to sneak > someone Softimage-affine into the > top ranks at AD$K to make decisions that are right for us instead of > shareholders only. > Any one around here with pointed elbows and a background in political > engineering willing to conspire ? ;-) > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Mirko Jankovic >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> "Well, we're responsible for the windows port of Alembic and other >>> integration work. And we develop feature with it like the GPU cache, >>> alembic caching in xgen, support in scene assembly and other things."... >>> for >>> Maya.. forgot to add that ;) >>> >>> Sry couldn't resist. Keep making Maya better addon for Softimage >>> Cheers >>> >> >> That's my job even more than ever! I've recently become the head of >> the maya user interface team. >> >> > > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Stefan Kubicek [email protected] > --------------------------------------------- > keyvis digital imagery > Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 > A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien > Phone: +43 (0) 699 12614231 > www.keyvis.at > -- This email and its attachments are -- > -- confidential and for the recipient only -- > >
