Resellers have always hated having it added to their portfolio, most had spent years telling people it was crap and they should buy Maya instead, which was also a bit pricier at many times, and not a new investment to manage.
Plenty stories like this one to go around. It's more the reseller than AD, mind, but it's not like AD ever had any interest in rectifying. Not that that's how reseller relationships work anyway. On 10 Mar 2014 01:52, "Mirko Jankovic" <[email protected]> wrote: > That is how AD was trying to support Softimage but it didn;t work... > Looks like they messed up and instead letting people buy Softimage they > made it harder > > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Francisco Criado <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Emilio, >> >> thanks for the article, and thanks for putting "un gallo con muchos >> huevos" as a sample of Softimage in production, but i have to tell you that >> even that the movie was originally planned (by me, i'm the guilty one jeje) >> to be done entirely in Softimage, when i was ripped oft the movie, the new >> td and the AD reseller's influence decided to go Maya. the only part of >> the production that stayed on Soft was, animatic, layout and animation.Last >> week with the all eol mess i published an article like yours in my fb, and >> all my ex coworkers at Huevocartoon began replying at me telling me that >> they saw how the movie started to begin having production problems with >> maya in the middle...anyways, nice to see in Mexico Softimage is more than >> welcome, sadly the reseller is not interested in selling it, when i made >> the purchase for Huevocartoon (60 licenses if my memory doesnt fail) i >> almost had to put a gun on reseller's head to give me Softimage instead of >> Maya. >> >> On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Greg Punchatz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Perfect >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Mar 8, 2014, at 11:20 PM, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> http://e-roja.com/the-truth-about-softimage-and-autodesk/ >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. >>> >>> >
