Hey then we talked. I couldnt move from Mexico City to Guadalajara at that time.
Funny though last friday I was with Alex Iturmendi and he started talking abouy you. El mar 9, 2014 10:39 AM, "Francisco Criado" <[email protected]> escribió: > 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] >> >: >> >>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>
