I'm still using it as the main 3D software and I do it for a living. A few years ago, I decided to stay with it. Probably for the rest of my professional career.
I'm kinda lucky in a way that I have a solid and quite professional production pipeline I can manage entirely by myself. I have the resources and the knowledge to keep it up and running. It's not in the budget right now but next big thing will be (hopefully) to move the farm to redshift. A downside is, that projects are not as interesting and challenging as they were when I worked as a freelancer at companies. That is not because of XSI rather than it is quite hard to get your hands on bigger projects if you're a one man show. I see two concerns may or may not coming in the future that I don't know how to handle yet. One might be that we will no longer work with polygons or any "surface based" modeling and everything will go point cloud (not seeing it in the next ten years). The other thing is a big rise of realtime engines that might kill any offline renderer and therefore any software that relies on it. Even that second concern seems to be more likely to happen soon, I'd say it won't affect me too much. I don't charge for render time anymore, usually I don't have tight deadlines, and photo realism is as real as it gets. So what. But I'm just speculating and it might turn out completely different. :) Sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2020 1:39 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage mailing list: 2019 by the numbers Most telling statistic is that Stephen Blair is the top poster of the year, and he typically only posts the Friday Flashback thread. I almost tried to avoid the list this year and I still ended up in the top ten. Once support left the product, so did the users. I'm curious to know how many people are still actively using XSI. I don't mean tinker with it, but actually using it regularly for meaningful work. Matt _____ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 02:33:28 +0000 From: Matt Morris <matt...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Softimage mailing list: 2019 by the numbers To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List. Feeling a little maudlin at those figures. Had a quick look back at list activity: 2011 – 2013: holding pretty steady at around 12k posts a year. 2014: 14k posts (eol announcement) 2015: 4055 (crazy drop off) 2016: 3282 2017: 2311 2018: 1058 2019: 657 <https://u9432639.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=lIXdN6W56FnEjHCwrBXqOq0HQNpV0huvAGw1zu6Xp8eVQuk2cNZiNFjx2k-2FfTNch-2BwSLMAIA8-2B-2Fai7Was5M7NUgkRPlvtBVWECuMBMaQ6RLkkQsPKQsWTDamTO8MR8pff-2F8FLBJc1lH4mNjKS3QK5jHleo-2FyBMsLGgoqi8C705Jz-2FCC4lUWDR0WxfcKEi-2BZ4fdGkOQGlX93yCHBtNE7PUnk1wQOMzrTP0d6l9pqZqOhloQl9qFgJA2udTAzryZCvDb8IRy-2BnuvuXxoyryWv6ReGCl-2BQGlkuC4-2FLoEZV-2FHh0TaeYJQUs4YA92UWX6ySHH3BZM92Ci-2Fk3F6CDu3qCfvJPLLhpEAFbKhPP5TB-2F6yDcpgvneKPoQTCfUUhsl0AukPVqCTLBaulNRrH1Z4pPt2QMwpvMwLBHdZ40sseh4wxRHNVsVB-2BHqSdWuJyPG0eFJHncWDicliBHnw1kZkATagFCCEHl2F-2BHyqrZn2WUd9NMTl1zfFUwAvHfPkx-2FfChPC31RdLEIX6Jxk4DTOcLNPGVdExRZLPK-2Bva-2FLzrYkARepTLBo9B85r9MdN-2Fkhx9aNGn8Kzps-2Fs9DKVienFVdA-2FmOGDElR0ENy8eGgzF4-2FHcS-2Bu9bOe9fk9YiQLS3SoM7JXgEwYcGYjidgmiQuNPmIwZJrECem2iv7qcxbcTbvheWyEvpGL-2FoJtF6WyCr60j7ROMabiDxsKBuJR2p6PSEuniFil2VZ81VUET3FrkFZBJEXAk15OhqURRY1scTys3BUawdl-2BOJj4gu6wuGCtzKLK7dJL7wTMhTN8frMUvt-2FxDws-3D_a6oQc7tnfcb0GKvoO27fPkrQ0ATQyF1SDBXJOg7-2FbuTEgWAYGrfZgr7mjF8ilUMOVP-2By2d-2FSjpuSmtYJB6BmHerO74qd-2Fdh9SjyK45hUgy7RIJWG65ZLOUkHhAnMWGub7VOKPnHlx6TQqmauhxDo0LuLNOHbivejeMKrw-2Bp1h5aNwmAbxU4ZasIyLvcAt17mjG7mfzcQuWoIJZVAhx2ZgCpHvluKdY0BrcmNXxQYmMLNrlJTAnpdSwnjywc-2FntsS >
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