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On 17/03/2014 15:20, Dan Yargici wrote:
Hi Chris, I've had to ignore the list for the last week for personal
reasons, so apologies if this has been mentioned somewhere across the
myriad threads...
I keep hearing yourself, Maurice, Graham, and everyone else from
Autodesk who have stuck their heads above the parapet continuously
mention movies and games, movies and games, movies and games (I've
quoted the last paragraph from you mail below). It's always been my
impression that most of the people on the list, and users of Softimage
in general, are working in *broadcast and commercials*. Without
wanting to step out of line, it seems to me to be the crux of your
problem here and why you find yourselves having to swim so hard
against this raging tide of discontent and abuse.
In terms of creating broadcast and commercial graphics with it's
associated constraints and problems, I think I speak for a lot of
people here in saying we feel we already have the tool that we want
and need (minus the continued feature updates and bugfixes we were
already expecting before you dropped the bomb on us). Neither Maya or
Max fit that bill as cleanly.
Much akin to Brad's reference to bullet-point driven decision making,
I think you have a large chunk of users here representing a square-peg
which feel you are relentlessly trying to bash them through a round hole.
Just an observation, and again, apologies if this has been mentioned
previously, it's hard to keep track coming in cold after my break...
DAN.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Chris Vienneau
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
First and foremost everyone who works at Autodesk in the M&E
division including the people who used to work at Soft (there are
way more than have left) love the film and games industry and the
chance to be a part of it. The decision with Soft was a hard one
but we back it so we can focus on helping the ecosystem make
better movies and games. Innovation comes from the synergies of
all these products, platforms, hardware and your talent and
putting that on any one tool or company does not capture what is
still a vibrant passionate community. The business model right now
sucks and things need to change but there is still a bright future
ahead and many problems left to solve.
cv/
