+1 Cristiano Policarpo BaloOm Animation Studios www.baloom.co --- PoustEx - CG Animated Short Film www.poustex.com
On Mar 14, 2014, at 8:52 AM, "adrian wyer" <[email protected]> wrote: > at David Saber's suggestion, i'll start a new thread so it doesn't get lost > in the noise; > > Autodesk, > > > > you probably don't know me, beyond a yearly > subscription payment, so allow me to tell you about myself. > > I started in the 3D industry in the 1990s, using Softimage 3D at a small > games company, before that I'd been training myself on a 'demo' copy of 3DS > on Dos. > > From day one using Softimage it was obvious the pedigree and artist driven > interface was light-years ahead of anything else I'd seen. When i moved to > the post industry in Soho a few years later, i made sure that, even though i > was working in a Lightwave house, they got me a copy of Softimage. Against a > backdrop of Lightwave evangelists, i consistently produced work faster, and > more elegantly than my peers. (this is purely down to the software, not my > abilities) > > For a few years i was a senior artist at the Hive, i was adrift in a sea of > Maya users, but slowly convinced my peers that Softimage (and then XSI, as i > was involved in the beta program) was the better package for quick turnaround > commercial work. Gaining a regular stream of repeat clients, asking for me by > name. > > Moving on i went to head up the 3D department at MillTV, producing work well > above the level of the budget, for television documentaries and drama. I > worked on the tests which would convince the BBC to bring Doctor Who back > from the dead. > > > > My colleague and friend Dave Throssell, who again, you probably don't know, > but who was responsible for the success of Mill3D and their many award > winning commercials during the 1990s, all produced on Softimage, left the > mill with me, and we started Fluid Pictures in 2006. > > The decision to use XSI as our primary application was a no-brainer, the > end-to-end ability of this software, to let an artist hit the ground running, > without fighting the interface, or having to be a programmer, allowed us to > produce work far in excess of the quality that the shrinking budgets of > television should have allowed. > > There is LITERALLY NO WAY we could have competed in our market, with a small > team, using ANY other package. > > Over the years ICE has become one of the reasons i come to work in the > morning! The challenges presented by our clients become a joy to solve when i > know i can jump into ICE, and figure out some clever way to shave hours or > even days off production time. For us as a company, there really is NO > alternative package, nothing does everything that Softimage does, nothing > comes close. > > > > And when i get stuck, i have the Softimage community. > > The mailing list has been my online home since 1999, and i count some of its > members as dear friends, without whom, again, i would have struggled to > compete in the market place. The members are always there with words of > encouragement and advice (and no small amount of ribbing!) the atmosphere is > one of enlightened, grown up camaraderie. > > A place where you can ask the simplest, or most complicated of questions, and > someone will usually be there to help you out. > > > > Finally, i would like to posit a suggestion, that may be too late, but would > impress upon you to consider; > > > > Softimage, with a little love, and a little investment, coupled with better > marketing strategy, could well be your missing effects pipeline. Your > Houdini. > > Is there a way for the developers, and the third party guys, to work together > with you, to take Softimage forward, to bridge the gap until Bifrost is > mature, and become your fx software? By all means keep it in the suites, > concentrate mainly on bug fixes, but please, don't kill our baby! > > > > a > > > > Adrian Wyer > Fluid Pictures > 75-77 Margaret St. > London > W1W 8SY > ++44(0) 207 580 0829 > > > [email protected] > > www.fluid-pictures.com > > > > Fluid Pictures Limited is registered in England and Wales. > Company number:5657815 > VAT number: 872 6893 71 > > > >
