My chat today was very constructive and supportive. I would certainly request that if you haven't already, contact Maurice and he can put you in touch with the best channels.
It's far from rosie as I have a lot of retraining in a short space of time and a lot of equivalents to find/discover that they don't exist. If there are any educators that already have Maya in their syllabus that can offer some advice I would be grateful. Kind regards, Jon On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:38 PM, David Gallagher < [email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, that's good. The educational side of this debacle was perhaps handled > the worst. > > > > On 3/27/2014 4:03 PM, Jon Hunt wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> > >
