On 3/27/2014 5:21 PM, Jon Hunt wrote:
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.
Thanks.
We teach in Maya (with some support for Softimage, that is now winding
down.)
Do you have any specific question?
Kind regards,
Jon
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:38 PM, David Gallagher
<[email protected] <mailto:[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]
<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
