Merry Christmas from owei and si-community..!

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Merry Christmas from owei and si-community..!

Post by owei » 19 Dec 2014, 17:47

Hello there!

This is Oliver, founder and owner of this little site. In the name of the hole team around the si-community, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and lucky new year 2015!

2014 was a tough one for us. The owner of our beloved SOFTIMAGE|XSI killed our our favorite 3D application. Still, to me a decision that makes me quite angry and desperate. XSI always gave me the opportunity to work in the 3D business without cursing about the 3D application. I guess that will change, as we all are forced to switch to another package, sooner or later. A hard way ahead, as there seems to be no real alternative to the power XSI gives you today. Well, some say, a certain package will get better and better, but, honestly, what did they do all those years? They all "found" their niche. There is no need for "them" to produce another swiss knife like XSI. I think, most likely, a "real" alternative won´t be there in the next couple of years.
I watch the DCC market with great concern. Innovation does not take place anymore. All the big packages are owned by one monopolist, that does not really care about users, workflow, cool 3D stuff and new innovative features. And one of these package starved an pitiful death.

Our little community is still healthy and I hope, this will be the case for quite some time. There are no plans to close this site. Though, some more donations would be fine ;)

2015 is ahead. Changes will take place. Let´s hope, as we have nothing much to loose anymore software-wise. Thanks and take care!!

Cheers,
Oliver Weingarten

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Post by Daniel Brassard » 19 Dec 2014, 18:20

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, Owei and the SI-Community!

May the year 2015 bring you joy and success in your endeavors.

Cheers, Santa is coming!

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Post by Rez007 » 19 Dec 2014, 20:46

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone! Looking forward to a positive 2015 and Best Wishes to All!

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Post by MauricioPC » 19 Dec 2014, 21:44

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year. Let's hope that 2015 brings us good news (software wise) and that all may have a healthy and cheerful life. :ymhug:

Oliver, thank you for all your efforts in creating this site and maintaining it.


Cheers.

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Post by antsjoe » 19 Dec 2014, 23:46

Merry Christmas to all and heres to seeing a better year in 2015 for SoftImage 3rd party resources including many contributors to si-community.

Oliver thanks for all the efforts you and others contributed ingeneral to this site. It has been one site I check in several times weekly to keep up on Softimage news, compounds and scripts/plug ins to use with SI 2014 install.

Merry Christmas

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Post by Hirazi Blue » 20 Dec 2014, 09:42

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to all and a Wonderful 2015
May the spirit of XSI stay with you, wherever you may roam... :-bd
Stay safe, sane & healthy!

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Post by rray » 20 Dec 2014, 14:55

Have a great christmas season and let's try and produce more of that novel&unique work, we're using the tool that can do it best, by far, and at least for the next decade!
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Post by druitre » 22 Dec 2014, 10:19

Happy festivus to all and to you Oli for al the good work in maintaining the site!

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Post by forton » 22 Dec 2014, 15:47

Merry Christmas!

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Post by Pooby » 22 Dec 2014, 19:47

Merry Christmas to one and all, excluding Autodesk, Who don't deserve Christmas, quite frankly.

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Post by whurst » 22 Dec 2014, 23:48

Merry Christmas from me to all of you too :-)

And if i didn't have Internet next days ... i wish all of you a happy new year too

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Post by angus_davidson » 23 Dec 2014, 09:02

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope the next year will be better .

Safe travels and happy holidays.
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Post by Rork » 23 Dec 2014, 14:26

Pooby wrote:Merry Christmas to one and all, excluding Autodesk, Who don't deserve Christmas, quite frankly.
LOL!!!!

So..... Happy holidays to all, and all the best (with less shocking developments software wise) for 2015!!

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So long, and thanks for all the Fish!!

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Post by mattmos » 23 Dec 2014, 18:46

Merry Christmas everyone, and have a great 2015. Many thanks to Oliver for keeping this little community going!

Looking forward to some new toys next year, already playing with Fusion (thanks blackmagic)

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Post by talent103 » 24 Dec 2014, 06:34

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope we all have a much better year next year.
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Post by Bellsey » 31 Dec 2014, 19:52

A Happy New Year to you all. (yes even those who might want to poke us in the eye and spit in our faces, lol)
Sorry that 2014 wasn't a good year for many of you, I hope 2015 is better.

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