Autodesk retires Softimage

[Hirazi Blue]

Like I mentioned in this other thread (but I repost it here anyway): we should petition Autodesk to give us our usage rights back even if we opt for Max or Maya. At this point in time there is nothing to save. All we can do is salvage! IMHO, obviously...

[luceric]

Not that it's all that important, but still no mail from Autodesk. They cannot even get a mass-mail to ALL customers right. And strangely enough: the RSS feed set to the Media and Entertainment part of the Autodesk Newsroom remains empt.

I've heard that if you have received any Autodesk mail communication, could be something you don't care about at all, and clicked "unsubscribe", then you're not getting any mass mailing from Autodesk, even something really important like this. It's a corporate policy.

[Hirazi Blue]

True, but I'd know if I had unsubscribed. And I can't recall ever doing so.
But it's not a big deal, merely a matter of principle... ;)

PS - The void that is the "Media and Entertainment" RSS newsfeed is a different story altogether. A bit embarrassing, frankly. "Im Westen nichts Neues" ("All Quiet on the Western Front", for those of you with some background in literature).

[redmotion]

Can a Softimage developer please leak the full source code on the day it finishes for good.

Time for a new blender that's a criminal offense.

Many thanks
Jason.

[McNistor]

I don't think they have access to the full code at once. Only a handful of people and therefore rather easy to discover the culprit.

[ThomasHelzle]

I don't think they have access to the full code at once. Only a handful of people and therefore rather easy to discover the culprit.

You can always ask the NSA, they should have it covered ;-)

Cheers,

Tom

[FXDude]

Hi, Mark Schoennagel's farewell ..

Also has great material from WhiskyTree

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/marks/th ... brilliance


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[Pancho]

Wow! That sucks. Not one word about a why or how he feels about it or what he did to prevent this from happening. Just a sentimental review over his years with SI.

[McNistor]

I don't think it was in his power to do anything about it. It didn't help that XSI was the best app in their portfolio or the fact that lots of studio still use it with great success.
IMO that was the most appropriate way to say his goodbye. At a funeral you mention the good times and appeal to nostalgia, you don't start swearing, throwing regrets around or bad mouthing the dead or anyone for that matter.

[Hirazi Blue]

Wow! That sucks. Not one word about a why or how he feels about it or what he did to prevent this from happening. Just a sentimental review over his years with SI.

I could imagine him not speaking entirely "freely" ;)

[zossowosso]

Petitioning Autodesk

Save Softimage



https://www.change.org/petitions/autode ... -softimage

[dirtydog]

I don't think it was in his power to do anything about it. It didn't help that XSI was the best app in their portfolio or the fact that lots of studio still use it with great success.
IMO that was the most appropriate way to say his goodbye. At a funeral you mention the good times and appeal to nostalgia, you don't start swearing, throwing regrets around or bad mouthing the dead or anyone for that matter.

A funeral for something that is alive and kicking!!?. get a grip.

[vektrex]

Fuck Autodesk.
I used Softimage everyday for the last 12 years.
Even when I wasn't working on a paid job I opened it and made a cube or a sphere or some particles system in ICE, just to let my hands go, without thinking.
It's a pleasure.
The smoothness, the flow of the interface.
Softimage let me think the way I wanted, made things the way I wanted, not the way the interface forced me.
Since I decided to work with visuals for my life I recognized Softimage the best way to work with.
I used for everything, from sketching and designing to render and finalizing.
It helped me to think.
It was my partner for 12 years and I'm still in love with it.
And I want to spend many years more together.

I don't want to be the marketing target of a slimy corporation anymore.
Let's get Softimage back.
Let's create a FOUDATION, like the blender foundation.
Creating sort of a fork of Softimage.
The third incarnation after Softimage|3D and Softimage |XSI.
A freed one.
Why don't we meet and talk about that?
We can use the Softimage Uber Tage, at least in Europe, to discuss the possibility.

I know its kind of a dream, and a hard one to realize.
But what the community showed with the vision and efforts in their works ( from the plugins to the pieces of art produced) is that talented people can achieve anything.
It requires a lot of time and money.
We have to put ours.

[duveil]

Fuck Autodesk.
I used Softimage everyday for the last 12 years.
Even when I wasn't working on a paid job I opened it and made a cube or a sphere or some particles system in ICE, just to let my hands go, without thinking.
It's a pleasure.
The smoothness, the flow of the interface.
Softimage let me think the way I wanted, made things the way I wanted, not the way the interface forced me.
Since I decided to work with visuals for my life I recognized Softimage the best way to work with.
I used for everything, from sketching and designing to render and finalizing.
It helped me to think.
It was my partner for 12 years and I'm still in love with it.
And I want to spend many years more together.

I don't want to be the marketing target of a slimy corporation anymore.
Let's get Softimage back.
Let's create a FOUDATION, like the blender foundation.
Creating sort of a fork of Softimage.
The third incarnation after Softimage|3D and Softimage |XSI.
A freed one.
Why don't we meet and talk about that?
We can use the Softimage Uber Tage, at least in Europe, to discuss the possibility.

I know its kind of a dream, and a hard one to realize.
But what the community showed with the vision and efforts in their works ( from the plugins to the pieces of art produced) is that talented people can achieve anything.
It requires a lot of time and money.
We have to put ours.

I think that is the only way that make sense...

[Unaided]

I have a question. Is public the name of Autod€$k executives that are taken the decision to discontinue Softimage?

Marc Petit, public head at moment in that Autod€$k acquire Softimage in year 2008, today is not professionally linked to Autod€$k since 2012, if his LinkedIn profile is truly.

By position, the logic is this three names are involved, of course. But is possible obtain official information?
Andrew Anagnost, Senior Vice President, Industry Strategy & Marketing
Chris Bradshaw, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, Reputation, Consumer & Education and Media & Entertainment
Carl Bass, President and Chief Executive Officer
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=14224440&siteID=123112

[pezetko]

I think it's pretty hard to tell who was behind this decision that day.

You can look yourself how fast AD management is changing (ehm sorry evolving).


But I don't think that matter.