Thanks Ivan
You'll do for starters although a way of posing this question to a wider
Maya user group would be good. The question is:
"Are there Maya users here with direct experience of Softimage or who
work alongside Softimage users in a larger facility who have opinions
about what Softimage functionality they envy"
The top 5 favourite features from our lovely Softimage list goes
something like:
1) Clean elegant efficient user interface and logical workflow: enabling
us to get things done quicker and with less pain. This so important and
a really fundamental part of the fabric of the software.
2) ICE: its seamless powerful and all pervading presence; everything can
connect to and control everything else
3) Render pass and partition system. It is absolutely robust and does
all you expect. Indespensible.
4) Live operator stack and construction history. Its all alive all of
the time enabling highly complex layering of effects and processes
5) Animation, modelling and rigging toolsets. They are peerless.
Alastair
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On 14/03/2014 15:13, Ivan Vasiljevic wrote:
Hello there.
@Alastair: I've starter with Maya 7-8 years ago and 4 years ago I
"had" to switch to Softimage since I got my first job at Softimage
facility back in the time. If there are any questions feel free to
ask, here or of the list, I'll be pleased to answer.
Cheers,
Ivan.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hey Alastair. It is funny you mention the sphere approach for
evaluate the simplicity and how intuitive a program is.
The sphere model and animate from frames 1 to 100 paradigm, is
the one I used when I switched from 3D Studio to Softimage 3D.
Without opening any manual I sat at a Softimage workstation, and I
was able to create a sphere, translate it to an x position at
frame 1, set a key and then translate it again to another position
at frame 100 and set a key, and playback in 5 minutes.
This paradigm is something I have used from ever since to evaluate
how fast or slow I can start interacting with a new software, and
gives me a first approach of the learning curve.
I am not going to comment my experience in Maya when I applied
this same paradigm about 10 years ago... But the result was that
I uninstalled Maya from the workstations at my former studio even
that the Autodesk sales rep at that time, left me with Maya "open
demo licenses" that had some synth music when he was installing
them in my computers.
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2014-03-14 8:41 GMT-06:00 Alastair Hearsum
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
Thanks
The questions I wanted to pose were more along the lines of :
"Are there Maya users here with direct experience of Softimage
or who work alongside Softimage users in a larger facility who
have opinions about what Softimage functionality they envy"
The aim is to get some counterpoint from that side of the
equation to use in any discussions with Autodesk.
The other type of question I have is something like
"I want to make a sphere and move it somewhere over time" (as
I struggle manfully with dark lord, but I'm not making them
too public yet.
Alastair
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On 14/03/2014 14:05, Tim Leydecker wrote:
You might like to google:
maya_he3d google group
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maya_he3d
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/maya_he3d>
There´s many of the long-time Maya users there that transitioned
from the old/closed [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> listserver.
The volume is quite low. For specific questions you may as well
probably go ahead and ask Stefan Andersson or Matt Estela.
I think Matt set it up, in case you want to subscribe.
Cheers,
tim
On 14.03.2014 13:44, Alastair Hearsum wrote:
Folks
Doses anyone know the equivalent of this list for Maya
users? I wanted to pose some questions to them.
Alastair
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