Dear educators:
Don't worry about it, students are silly and all think they should be
treated like gods when it comes to learning tools and have everything
laid out for them on a plate so they can focus on their 'artistic side'.
I should know, I'm one of them. :P
Yours sincerely,
Siew Yi Liang
On 3/5/2014 8:45 AM, Sofronis Efstathiou wrote:
Having the same conversation with our students tomorrow. But I think they
always knew why we taught Soft and we always referred to Maya/Max specific
tools to reassure them the craft uses the same essential tech. The likely hood
was they would need to reskill at some point in new software, we were never
precious about that idea. Like Andy says, a grad who can hold a conversation
about their practise and skill base is always going to do well. We are also
going to do a weeks workshop of Soft to Maya transition towards the end of the
year.
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On 5 Mar 2014, at 15:50, "Andy Jones"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
If it helps, Angus, as someone who deals with interviewing and crewing/staffing
people, I can tell you that for us, it is far more important to find people who
understand how to seek out the best tool they can find for every job and
actually put it to use, rather than people who just want to tick a box in a
list of job requirements. Ticking the box is of course important for
freelancers at a more senior level on short term gigs, but at the junior level,
what we care about is potential, the drive to push that potential, and
personality. (And outstanding artistic and/or technical abilities, of course).
For example, all things being equal, a kid who walks in and can actually hold his own in
a conversation with me about how to migrate his skillset from Softimage often stands a
way better chance than someone who comes in and says he "knows Maya." (We are
mostly Maya based in LA).
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Angus Davidson
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
When we switched from maya to softimage we had an immediate improvement in what
they were able to deliver. I have no regrets about that. I can understand their
frustration though, the job market is hard when your starting out and they dont
really have anywhere else to vent. Sparing with Luc Eric has given me a thick
skin ;)
Just shows how AD$K's decision has much bigger knock on effects then they
realise.
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From: Maurício PC [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: 05 March 2014 05:19 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Softimage 2015 Last Release Announcement
If your students are slamming you Angus, they are stupid. The knowledge of
Softimage is easily transferable as it teach you how to think properly.
I'm certain they would be less artists if they started with the Maya-hell. Oh
well ... I'm almost buying this Modo 701 special offer. Damn.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Angus Davidson
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Great getting past students slamming our decision to teach Softimage on
facebook. Not sorry for teaching the best software for DCC. However we will
have to teach something else from next year ;(
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