Hope he was talking about me in a good way :) he was one of my mentors, with Victor Wolansky, had the pleasure to work with both of them. Say hi from me ! Sorry to the rest of the list if this went OT. Anyways, i can speak from the latin american side, and say that Autodesk never had any intention for getting Soft in the market. Mexico and Argentinian offices only care about their industrial/architectural products. F.
On Sunday, March 9, 2014, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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 > >
