Indeed Raffael. They tried to flood my studio with Maya once after the acquisition, they even installed Maya in every workstation I had, I said I was not paying for any. The answer was no problem, I will leave you an "open license" for as long as you want. Maya is better.
Yeah better for them as it is more expensive and they have a bigger cut in their comission. @Francisco. I was called to participate in the Huevocartoon movie as I am an old Softiamge guy around here. It really suprised me when I knew they chose Softimage to go with it. A couple of the Maya artists that I describe in the article, actually were the first ones to contact me. And they told me how they have been blind using Maya and not giving a chance to Softimage before. Unfortunatley as the movie was beeing produced in Guadalajara, at that moment I wasn't able to move as I am in Mexico City dealing with other stuff. Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. 2014-03-09 9:42 GMT-06:00 Raffaele Fragapane <[email protected]>: > 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. >>>> >>>> >>
