On 7/12/2015 3:54 PM, Mario Reitbauer wrote:
It's about time to get over that whole Softimage EOL topic and move on. Clear your mind and get rid of the negativ thinking. There are quite some tools out there which are worth learning. No sense in keeping the negativ spirit up. Softimage won't come back, Autodesk won't change (they probably gonna become worse).
I'm still reading this list BECAUSE of the drama ;)
2015-07-12 14:45 GMT+02:00 Juan Brockhaus <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:regardless to whom this campaign is targeted to... it is an insult to any professional out there working in this industry. even when you just read the facts of the campaign and trying to keep any emotions aside... and ignoring anything you know about Maya and it's real performance, workflow, usability etc... - talking about weeks, but you can rent only per month... - $4.17 a day is based on year subscription... which completely contradicts the whole 'get it when needed' statement... - 'awesomeness', 'join the movement', 'equals an hour of your time' (???), etc... etc... ... speechless... ...and don't get me stated on the cheaply produced video... ... hey, but maybe someone from Fabric, foundry, SideFX, etc infiltrated the Autodesk marketing team and was able to get this campaign out there... LOL ;-) ... On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Tim Leydecker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: For taking up a fight with Cinema 4D, Maya needs a serious crashcourse and lose some excess wheight. I have collegues do stuff in Cinema 4D, anything from dynamics, multiple projections, "just" rendering smoke with Arnold, painting textures in Bodypaint and playing with *.psd layers and layered shaders without bothering much. Umhh, sitting close by, debugging a polygon mesh in Maya 2015sp6Ext1 node editor that still has connections to the initial shading group even if it shouldn´t, finding out that renderlayers are suddenly breaking when switching to another render layer, loosing hair about Maya´s own layered texture/layered shader, constantly on the edge of my seat for not knowing if Maya will last me through this prolonged session or not doesn´t feel like it´s time for flip flops. I´ve started with Maya somewhere around Maya 1.5 / Maya 3.5 /Maya 4. At least 10 years of trying to keep a stiff upper lip, wading through deep shit and hoping for the best. Years lost with running into stupid limitations and trying to soldier on. I want my life back. If I wake up on the couch, it´s because I didn´t make it to the bed after another exhausting Maya session fighting the program, not solving my task. Cheers, tim P.S: That´s why I don´t want to commit to Autodesk, not because I fancy being a spoiled, irresponsible single child brat showing off my sneakers, mac book, blog and life style, sneering at anyone who doesn´t fit my style googles. Even beer googles are more human... Am 11.07.2015 um 20:54 schrieb Jordi Bares Dominguez:It’s clearly targeted to the Cinema4D crowd obviously, designers and kind of 1 man band artist/designers/directors running on a laptop and darting through london on a uber expensive bicycle. The problem is that these guys have a great tool in their hands and its connection with After Effects is difficult to beat so I see it as a very uninformed marketing campaign. But may be I am wrong and they are going to sell these to my mother-in-law too so she can do some dinosaurs and get rich. jbOn 11 Jul 2015, at 18:07, Steven Caron <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: BUT carpenters do rent some tools... not their core tools but typically the larger more expensive tools. Maybe this campaign is not for us. ie. The people who use 3d tools everyday. Maybe the people that never have used 3d tools before are the focus of this campaign. My colleagues and I have discussed this a bit and this is one of the conclusions we came to. This is a play designed for getting new customers and new revenue, mostly. I still think this is campaign is completely silly, but I can say I am honestly not surprised. *written with my thumbs On Jul 11, 2015 8:36 AM, "Sebastien Sterling" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > It would be so easy to write them off a idiots > > DCC are TOOLS in nature, they are selling them as a service, which is fundamentally incompatible. > > As a carpenter you don't rent a hammer or a tool belt, not if it is your business, that is insane. >-- ------------------------------------------ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 0049 (0)157 86272215 Professor-Brix-Weg 9 22767 Hamburg ------------------------------------------
