Great article Emilio ... I guess what makes more sad is that the only software I ever felt comfortable was Softimage. I've never worked with it on production, I just studied. And now I'll need to learn Maya because the future is Maya?
Hell ... I only had the dream of working with in 3D for films because of Softimage. I knew there were studios using it and that maybe I would get the chance to work there. But now ... what's left of a student to do? I could study Max or Maya, put my head down, and work in the industry with this ... but I don't want to. Man, if I had the money RIGHT NOW I would buy the last version of Softimage to continue working in it forever. 3D also needs to be fun and with Softimage it is. So what AD did is prevent me from working with Softimage in the future with movies and it's preventing me from even buying the f*cking software as I needed to gather the money for it in one month!!!!!!!! That's not fair at all, reasonable, nothing. If I only had more cujones I would use a cracked version of Softimage for the rest of my life and send a "f*ck you AD" and continue life. It's funny when you want to do things by the book (buying legal software, licenses, etc), you are hurt more than people who simply don't care. I'm pretty sure there are lots of people and small studios using illegal AD software (be it Maya, Max or Softimage). This is what you get from being a correct guy ... And that's why I WON'T be using AD software NEVER again. I won't get work? That's okay, there are other types of work ... life is more than work. But it still pissed me off. Autodesk ... come to your senses, let us BUY Softimage until at the least 6 months from now and gives as a discount on that price. I'm pretty sure a LOT of users would purchase it, because we know of the potential. And perhaps, if you actually gave users an opportunity, we could actually transition some day to your other applications. But with what you are doing, I'm pretty sure I won't. Mauricio On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > http://e-roja.com/the-truth-about-softimage-and-autodesk/ > ------------------------------------------------------- > Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. > -- gonebadfx.com - your source for bad fx
