Hi Chris, And thanks for having taken the time to write such a long explanation.
I too have been around Softimage for twenty years (as a user, but also as an instructor) and have followed it along its bumpy road, so nothing that you recount surprises me. However, what *does* intrigue me is the fact that recently, in the last couple of years, and despite the lack of marketing push and development by Autodesk, I truly believe that Softimage was finally beginning to gain ground. Many, many high profile commercials had been made with it, as well as playing a big role in a few features (Lego being the obvious and most pertinent example). This was in large part due to ICE, of course, but nevertheless it seemed that Softimage was being talked about more than ever before, and infact it seemed to be gaining ground in a few educational facilities too. Of course I’m not privy to information about number of users or seats sold, but I can’t help wondering if the figures haven’t been skewed by the introduction of bundles that effectively show up as Maya or 3DSMax licenses, despite the fact that Softimage was the software being used. Care to comment? Thanks, Jean-Louis Jean-Louis Billard Digital Golem BE: +32 (0) 484 263 563 UK: +44 (0) 7973 660 119 jean-lo...@digitalgolem.com http://www.digitalgolem.com/ 53 Rue Gustave Huberti 1030 Brussels On 25 Mar 2014, at 14:34, Chris Vienneau <chris.vienn...@autodesk.com> wrote: > HI Emilio, > > > > I think that now you have heard from Carl I think I will weigh in here and > what I am writing comes from having been in and around softimage for twenty > years as I grew up in Montreal and came onto the tech scene around 1993 when > Softimage was on fire and right before it got bought by Autodesk. There is no > doubt that Softimage starting in 1986 had the early lead in animation > software and when I started at Discreet Logic even had a claim on Flame code > with Eddie. Microsoft was a crazy rising star at that point and bought them > up as all entertainment tools were sold <snipped>
