Hi Morten, It’s http://area.autodesk.com/softimagetransition Maurice
Maurice Patel Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:01 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Autodesk webinar Maurice, could you please post a link to this - I am lost in thousands of mails in my inbox these days. Morten Den 18. marts 2014 kl. 00:52 skrev Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com<mailto:maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>>: > Hi Emilio et al. > About the webinar: First sorry about the technical problems. Google servers > and our streaming servers had issues and we lost the service. Yes the > questions were screened. We were not sure of the volume of the questions we > would get and suspected it would be too high to try and handle onscreen on > the fly. But behind the camera questions were being collected and fed to us > - such as Greg and others' question "why should I trust Autodesk?" - which > was the live component. We answered pretty much all the questions posed > although we tried to avoid repeating similar questions. We answered the key > recurring ones : why don't you sell/license/open source Softimage? Why don't > you continue development longer/forever? Why discontinue what we feel is your > best/most innovative product. The answer to those three questions are so we > can focus more of our efforts on Maya and 3ds Max. Now you may find our > answers unsatisfactory but that is why we are doing it. > We have now posted the full recording should anyone want to refer to it > -ultimately there is not a whole much more new than what has been already > been discussed on this forum. > maurice > > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > > From: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> > > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]<mailto:[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]> > On Behalf Of Emilio Hernandez > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 5:45 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> > Subject: Autodesk webinar > > Well I really do not understand this Autodesk "client oriented" policy. But > if I was there, at this time at least, I would have come in and asked at > least for an apology and will reschedule the webinar. > > What sense it makes to watch a recorded webinar without the live QA session? > They were already filtering the questions if it is true that they were > actually real questions more focused in the "if I have a horse can I trade it > for a pony?" > > We waited two weeks to hear what they have to offer us that will show how > wrong we were for not believe in them. > > This only confirms that we should not believe in them and that they really do > not care about us. Seems that the removal of the timebomb was more "a taking > a step ahead before someone will come with a lawsuit based on damages". > > This two weeks of "we are listening you" were nothing else but BS, while they > were trying to make us sing "everything is wonderful". > > Again the door of uncertainty and speculation is wide open. > > Nothing Autodesk has told us about why they decided to kill Softimage makes > full sense at all. > > The only thought in my mind is that Softimage was coming from behind even > without proper branding/marketing strategy, and their Maya cardhouse was > starting to fall apart. > > Cheaper than Maya, less human resources to operate, no big dev team behind to > create tools that should be out of the box or to fix things that get broken. > Better workflow... Even without been truly improved since Autodesk acquired > it. ICE not only for particles or VFX but as well to find quick workarounds > for rigging and precedural modeling. > > Lots of money spent in Maya "innovation" but that it seems they only bought > plugins to Maya brand them. > > Call it the conspiracy theory if you want. But it makes more sense than any > other "official" explanation. > > Imagine how they will look if Autodesk starts selling more Softimage seats > instead of Maya. Even that they have invested a lot in Maya and nearly > nothing in Softimage. > > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. >
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