Emilio, i was the guy interviewing all staff at the beginning of production, via Skype to the guys on DF and personally on Gdl, so we had to have a chat for sure. Gabriel (the director) WAS one of my best friends, and when he came to me and told me he wanted to do the third movie on 3d in two years only...well there is only one software than can do that! When asked to Autodesk, to send me some softimage artists from their database, maya portfolios began to rain, and the fight began, they saying there was enough users, and at the same time finding myself a lot of softimage people from Ana movie and other places that were amazing animators. F.
On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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. >>>>> >>>>> >>> >
