Re: [OT] time for vacation... I think....

["Morten Bartholdy" <xsi(at)colorshopvfx.dk>]

All good points Stefan, and interesting read about Maya :)

Congratulations - grattis Stefan to your girlfriend and yourself. Summer is 
just a wonderful time to have with your baby.
BTW are you no longer at Stopp ?

best wishes - Morten Bartholdy



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Andersson" <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: [OT] time for vacation... I think....


> Hi All,
>
> I see a lot of aggitation on the list lately. So my advice... take
> vacation :) Enjoy that the summer is here (same same for LA people..
> and winter for Oz people). So chill the **** down... and have a beer
> or two.
>
> Yes we are frusrated that all the features that exist in software X
> isn't in "ours" (me included). But the matter of the fact is that we
> can't have everything we want in this world. The people at Softimage
> is working hard to fullfill our needs... sometimes they make a wrong
> turn ( read: FaceRobot )... but hey... they are only human. And they
> do come up with things that makes our job easier. Sometimes the
> community also help them on their way (T2S shaders...) and we can hope
> they implement it for the next release.
>
> All in all it's a bumpy ride, Maya is releasing 8.0 at siggraph I
> heard... and they still don't have a decent SubDivs as we do. Or even
> try and use multiple projections.. or try and transfer multiple
> projections to the same model (ask any maya artist and they will shed
> some tears). Or that you have a camera projection that doesn't slide
> or display a correct image. Or that they do have passes now... but not
> partitions... Or that as soon as you parent something to a bone it
> will create a new bone that will be taking into count when you do your
> weightmaps... or the fact that when you paint one bone it will effect
> others... The list can grow long, and in the end of they day XSI does
> make 90% of my work 200% faster than in Software X.
> It's the 10% that can bug the hell out of us all sometimes... but as
> always we will find a workaround since everything else is so fast that
> we have time to test several ways of doing it.
>
> I for one is taking 6 weeks now, then back to the freelancing inferno
> which I call "my day job". But mean while I will try and recharge my
> batterys (which I will need... baby is due in two weeks).
>
> A long mail about nothing, just throwing my thoughts out to the list :)
>
> regards
> stefan andersson
>
>
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