RE: xsi marketing

[jim bough <jimbough(at)hotmail.com>]

My POV exactly, much better stated albeit.

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Subject: RE: xsi marketing
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:43:49 -0500
From: marc-andre.carbonneau(at)ubisoft.com
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Here’s my point of view

 

Anyone else think Nucleus is an early reaction to Softimage stating that they are working on a particle/dynamic update?

I’m sure Autodesk doesn’t want to loose Maya users so they feed them with “dynamic” update so they don’t look around for something better.

A lot of people using Maya said in the past that if XSI had something more powerful than Maya’s effects (dynamics, cloth, particles etc…) then they would surely switch. I read it in forums and experienced it in studios in Montreal…so for sure there is an element of stress there.

 

It’s been announced already that Softimage is working on a new particle engine. Something big. Something that they are taking their time to make powerful and useable for artists as well as technicians…I think that is already on a lot of people’s lips…

Marketing is not Softimage’s forte. Well it was not in the past, I don’t know now with the new teams…

But of course when we’ll get close to the release date they should indeed push it and make a real marketing bang. There is so many possibilities with effects that can be done be it jokes or marketing stunts.

I’ll leave the ideas to the ad creative minds. (I’ll gladly do the art tho!) ;)

 

My 2 cents,

MAC

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of jim bough
Sent: January 17, 2007 10:07 AM
To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: xsi marketing

 

I just don't get why no one has leaked anything. I mean there are people that could "accidently" let something slip. Look at how popular for instance the nucleus leak was. Or the upcoming Houdini features, who's excited about seeing that one? Hearing nothing from Soft really has me wondering, and not in a good way.
 
 

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