As seen on FB Le 19 avr. 2016 02:06, "Sebastien Sterling" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> AD wants to get the equation as close as they can to people feeding them a > steady stream of income for minimal updates and maintenance. They are not > driven by any passion or creative fervour. > > On 19 April 2016 at 00:55, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I tried to touch on this with the last sentence in my reply. Their >> decision axe Softimage seemed irrational to us because we are emotional but >> if you reduce it to numbers, it made sense. It is a truth I don't like to >> admit but it is a fact that Maya and Max user numbers are just higher, so >> of course you axe Softimage and consolidate the dev teams. >> >> Others have touched on it, here and on the Arnold mailing lists... This >> case is different because they don't have 3 competing renderers now, they >> have at most two (ART in Max). Softimage wasn't a plugin for 7 different >> softwares, it wasn't 'agnostic' in the same way Arnold is. Since the >> Softimage purchase and axing, AD has bought Shotgun. This is an example of >> AD staying out of way and more value being brought to the product >> (additional access to RV). These are reasons why I think this case is going >> to be different. >> >> I am cautiously optimistic though, in 2 years or so we will see for >> certain. >> >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Artur W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Many AD corporate decisions seem irrational and strange to us. >>> Why should this case be any different? >>> >>> I truly wish everything would go as we wanted. Constant progress and >>> development of Arnold. >>> >>> >>> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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