Re: AnimSchool Student Showcase

[Jason S]

Yet I'm sure that a number of positive silver linings would come out of this in coming versions of Maya, Cheers On 03/27/14 16:36, Jason S wrote: Nad Center in Montreal is also hit pretty hard.. (among many) The thought of where XSI7 was heading, in that sense I can undestand what may have motivated the measures taken in consequence. Typical sentiment in Area Forum back then <<    .. with programs like Houdini and XSI 7 (with ICE) gaining a lot of ground  in the development arena,  is Autodesk actually taking a hard look at Maya and making it more stable while providing new features? The underlying theme I get from people on forums is if Maya 2009 doesn't deliver or Autodesk doesn't lay out some sort of roadmap worthy of sticking around, people will in fact jump to XSI or Houdini. Makes me wonder where XSI would be today, had it not been subject to Laws of the Jungle. I'm sure Maya would have been very much (if not more) alive & well...  as well.. (having more reasons to keep-up) On 03/27/14 15:32, David Gallagher wrote: Hello! We will begin to remove Softimage assignment options, unfortunately, as it appears the students will no longer be able to download a student version, and we would be unwise to promote it for their sakes. We will continue to offer our more advanced rigs in Softimage to the animation students who may already have it, and our free, public rigs as well. I will continue to show Softimage's amazing capabilities to our students in my extra help sessions with the students. Thanks for the compliment! Dave G