Exactly Paul. I believe that all of we were first attracted to Softimage becuase we believed in it. Not because we were forced to use it or learn it. It was into that process of knowing Softimage, that we got in love with it.
If only ADSK would understand this... They should first deliver something real better than Softimage and let us to start playing with it, knowing it and eventually fall in love with it. As we did with Softimage at first place. Taking Softimage away in the way they did is nothing worse than drag your clients into a software that the ones like me, who had the chance to go in deep with it (Maya) definitiveley is not an option. At least the way Maya is right now compared to Softimage. The "migration" will be nothing more than a temporary event that will assure the Softimage users that Maya is not an option for them. Then, they will start to look for other options that will turn into the following 1. Look for a couple of softwares to have something similar as you had before in Softimage (Modo-Blender/Houdini) solution 2. Keep using Softimage as long as there is OS that will keep running it. 3. Eventually when someone nails a new "Softimage" we will go for it. It is not because at some point when you fill your Maya with scripts here and there, maybe you will have a more "proficient" tool. Simply is becuase how is Maya structured from its foundation that the worklfow and time efficiency is slower than Softimage. Yes at the end you can get to the same result. But a much later time that you are used to and with pitfalls in the path. This is something that I strongly believe that ADSK never saw coming. Actually their explanations about the reasons for killing Softimage lack of credibility. Sounds logical at first, but when you dig a liitle bit more it is nothing but absurd with all my respect. I cannot believe that holding a team of 8 devs in Asia to simple fix bugs, or minor improvements, were really driving Autodesk away to get focused into develop something new... I would have bought more the "financial situation" or that Softimage was making them "lose money". Anyway. If Autodesk want to cut looses on this one, the best that they can do. Is bring back Softimage, keep the devs to fix bugs and open the SDK. As much of us have stated. That is less descent thing they can do to revert some damage of the catastrophical way they have handle this, whatever is the true reason they killed Softimage. Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. 2014-03-11 9:55 GMT-06:00 Paul Griswold < [email protected]>: > I sincerely hope people from Autodesk are reading these letters because I > think it describes the situation perfectly. > > If ADSK had just unveiled some amazing, next-generation DCC that combined > all the good parts of Max, Maya and Softimage into one amazing package, I > don't think you'd see nearly as many complaints or objections. But that > didn't happen, so people are looking to what they feel are BETTER > alternatives to what ADSK is offering. > > This entire situation was absolutely horribly conceived and executed. > Rather than stubbornly standing by what is now clearly a bad decision, > ADSK could gain a lot of good faith & credibility by actually listening to > their customers. > > -Paul > > >
