Hi David, I had a Skype call today from a chap from autodesk where it was confirmed from the feedback they have received, the free student versions shall be offered for another year (timeframe - iirc it was a year) to aid migration of the education community.
I have certainly found this useful in our plans J On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jason S <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > >
