Thats good to know. Would have been nice if they had actually let more of the educators know ;)
Unfortunately as least as far as we are concerned we still cant teach EOL software ;( Thanks for letting us know. ________________________________ From: David Gallagher [[email protected]] Sent: 28 March 2014 12:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AnimSchool Student Showcase 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]<mailto:[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 <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
