Absolutely!
If you look at all the wonderful work done for movies (looking at
Elysium and Pacific Rim for instance) and the excellent commercial work
done by e.g. Glassworks (G-Star Raw), SeSucht (Paperworld), The Mill
(PETA - 98% Human) and more, it's obvious SI can "handle things".
Especially with a touch of (free) emTools or Exocortex plugins, you
don't have move to Houdini to get complex stuff done.
Now they killed SI, and want us to move to Maya. If we want to keep
doing this level of work, it more or less boils down to adding Houdini
to the pipeline too.
That doesn't make ANY sense for smaller companies or freelancers.
My personal opinion is that most SI users/houses will not switch to
Maya/Max, and migrate to something else after some time from now.
I have no idea who came up with this ideas at AD, but they horribly
misunderstood the whole SI community as far as I'm concerned.
Rob
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On 14-3-2014 12:15, Jordi Bares wrote:
It is very true Softimage started to dent on some Houdini areas, and
those who were looking to transition once ICE arrived stopped looking…
they certainly killed the wrong product and after all these piles and
piles of messages my feeling is that they should do what I call a
wise-U-turn.
There is no shame if it is for good guys!
Jordi Bares
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
On 14 Mar 2014, at 10:44, "adrian wyer"
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
i would estimate closer to 10,000 seats worldwide
that makes $7million a year.....
lets assume the devs are on $50k * 8 that's only $400k a year
dear Autodesk, keep Soft alive, keep 90% of your profits (as you
always have), and throw half a million at third party guys to shore
up your product...
bear in mind that if you actually knew what you had purchased, with a
little love, some money and the right marketing, you could now own
Houdini's share of the market...
you fools
a
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*Subject:*Re: thinking out loud
That may not happen till after 2016 when they stop releasing updates.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Chris Marshall
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi All,
I was thinking that Autodesk expect most people to carry on paying
their annual support fee, and transition over, but as established, we
don't want to do that. If there are, for example 3000 seats globally
on support, each netting Autodesk something in the region of $700 a
year, that's over $2 Million Dollars every year! If no-one
transitions over, that's a lot of money they'll lose.
Just thinking out loud.
Chris
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