The point isn't if you continue to use SI or not. SI is still a valid option for a few years. I will use it for modeling until Maya gets better or Modo offers something really big.
But developing tools is different. It requires API knowledge that can't be translated to another software, so increasing your Softimage programming skills isn't a good idea. In Advertising you don't need to deliver your data so it doesn't matter if you use Softimage 3D as long as it looks good so you may not get the point. Imagine that you have to deliver your data, and obviously Softimage projects are going to disappear eventually. Would you continue to improve your Softimage skills? Martin On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not a blind Softimage fanatic. I have been using Maya for three > years from now for other reasons. When I tried to switch entirley to Maya > about 1 year ago, looking at this moment coming when last years rumors were > just about the same, I just couldn't. The time I need to spend in Maya > to get the job done was in a 2:1 ratio. And if I need to dig into the > nodes sometimes a 4:1 ratio. > > I work in the advertising industry where deadlines are critical compared > to a film. I need to respond quick and be able to change stuff in no > time. That is what Softimage allows me. > > So if sticking to a deadware still makes me give the kind of service my > clients are expecting, I will not because I will give my right arm for > Softimage, it is becuase it allows me to pay bills and education for my son > and live a descent life. > > I would have switched to other DCC tool without hesitate if I already > found one that will make me work as I do, or better. > > And I will when it comes out. Not before nor later. > > Cheers! > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. > > > 2014-03-05 21:54 GMT-06:00 Martin Yara <[email protected]>: > > I agree with Raffaele. I think it may be fine to complete your current >> tool projects for SI, but starting new ones just doesn't make too much >> sense. I'm not a TD (just a guy who script a little) but I'm planing to >> finish and polish a few tools I have so I can use them meanwhile I have >> some Softimage projects but that's it. >> >> I suggest to put your efforts in making Maya or whatever you chose, a >> little Softimage like. That would be awesome. >> >> Personally I plan to increase my Maya scripting skills in the next >> months, and hopefully try to make it less painful. >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Then go for it. The guys who left the industry when Soft|3D was shut >>> down and both Lightwave users still writing in LScript will welcome you >>> with open arms :) >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Alok Gandhi >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Raff, Well I would like to humbly disagree with your 'corspe' analogy. >>>> People will still continue to use Soft. Maybe not big shops and huge >>>> pipelines but those small shops and lone artists that have been using it >>>> for many years. >>>> >>>> I think AD stopping development does not mean that it will not be used. >>>> I now for myself that I will use it to get some odd jobs done. For a few >>>> years, I was palnning to a do a personal animated short, I think now I will >>>> be starting on that project in a few months. It will be all soft. >>>> >>>> Of course, I have developed for Maya, Houdini and Nuke as well and will >>>> continue to do so. Fabric is awesome and I want to contribute there as >>>> well. But that does not mean I will abandon doing things in soft. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can I humbly suggest TDs spend their time more productively instead, >>>>> for both themselves and the community, and start looking at other vendors? >>>>> >>>>> We can wish upon a star all we want, but, as hurtful as it might be, >>>>> Soft is dead and will not be brought back to life. You can tazer the >>>>> corpse >>>>> until it spasms, but it won't be life. >>>>> >>>>> What you COULD do, however, for the sake of the same people that made >>>>> Soft what you loved as a software and as a community, is make good use of >>>>> your time to diversify your skills and give support to platforms such as >>>>> Fabric. >>>>> >>>>> Hopefully I won't get flamed or misunderstood for this, but honestly, >>>>> there'd be no worse thing to see than seeing people doing further damage >>>>> to >>>>> themselves by clinging to a corpse after the damage done to the app and >>>>> its >>>>> history. >>>>> Look at LW to see the depth of sadness this can get to. I'd rather the >>>>> people I've come to know and respect on this list don't devolve into >>>>> what's >>>>> left of its userbase. >>>>> >>>>> You also get to make more of a difference for the future of industry >>>>> and vendors if you spend your time on a project that has a chance to live, >>>>> and you get to learn a lot of things that Soft is entirely too far behind >>>>> on for you to properly learn on. >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, might sound cold, but it's a helluva lot more practical. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alok Gandhi <[email protected] >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hey Guys, >>>>>> >>>>>> Calling out all the Soft Tool developers/ TDs out there. I know there >>>>>> are lots of awesome out there for Soft but let's create more tools for >>>>>> the >>>>>> community. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I am willing to devote my time to develop more tools and will ask the >>>>>> same of other developers. >>>>>> >>>>>> If anyone has a request / idea for a Tool from Soft that they need, >>>>>> please post it here. >>>>>> >>>>>> Developers please feel free to take on this projects. >>>>>> >>>>>> If anyone likes this idea and can quickly setup a web page (like >>>>>> redmine ticket system), it will be great. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers ! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship >>>>> it and let them flee like the dogs they are! >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it >>> and let them flee like the dogs they are! >>> >> >> >
