Personally, the whole Autodesk acquisition of Softimage has left a bitter taste in my mouth since it happened and every year when I had to stump up their ever-varying subscription payment (varying from too expensive to bloody expensive)!Hirazi Blue wrote:While everybody's obviously allowed to have their personal likes and dislikes and act upon them, I find it somewhat puzzling that we (users & employees alike) didn't abandon Autodesk/Softimage at a much earlier date, as most of this was known in one way or another in the past as well. Funny aside: many people currently at Fabric seem to be among the most notable ones who actually did abandon Autodesk/Softimage at such an earlier time.
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The only reason I have put up with it for so long is that other 3D software simply does not compare, as I think we are all finding now we are having to seriously consider other packages!
From the first day I started using Softimage it just made sense, and was a complete revelation after over 10 years of Lightwave where I routinely hit a brick wall and ended up frantically searching the web for a plugin. The ability to build my own tools quickly and easily using ICE has made Softimage an absolute pleasure to use, and saved me the sleepless nights I used to suffer from, worrying how I was going to achieve the results my client was looking for.
So far the only light at the end of a very dark AD tunnel is Houdini, which I am currently evaluating, and seems to be the last 3D production tool left on the market that offers anything like the functionality I enjoyed in Softimage (albeit at a higher price )