Autodesk internal discussion about Softimage

[qgco]

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[johannas58]

Doesn't work for me because I understand German...

[TrandzikPeto]

I WILL FIRE THAT BITCH WHO WROTE THE VIEWPORT CUBE! XD

[throneinc]

autodesk acquired discreet/alias/avid, seriously what is wrong with that ?, how can a company market three competing giants without fucking up one software in favor of another.

[Seiferzed]

i was freaked out to try softimage after i worked for some time on maya , there is actually atutorial that pushed me into trying softimage and what do you know ! the only thing that differs much is the interface ! the rest is very similar and i think once i get a hang on it i will explore another 3D program

[hotlava777]

@Seiferzed is the softimage interface better than maya's? i think maya's UI is rather cluttered with too many things.

[Seiferzed]

@hotlava777 yea XSI i interface is much more kindof brief and is more like a toy when you look at it at first but trust me its not a toy and is effective as hell , alot of decent tools specially if you are looking for fast modeling its a beast when you know the shortkeys ! everything is docked well and easy to find , in my opinion its worth for anyone to try !

[hotlava777]

hey thanks for the response seiferzed, i'll give it a try. maybe there could be an efficent work flow for maya n XSI together.

[nothGhost]

Blender boy, Pov-ray boy XD

If you can laugh at this, you're a certified 3D-Geek. Don't worry though, cause I am too and I'm proud to be one.

[kyleb2112]

Every time I'm forced to use Maya's pathetic Bevel Plus tool, I'm tempted to rage uninstall it. But then in XSI I select a bunch of objects and try to graph their shading networks only to get that "just one object at a time" warning...and I go limping back to Maya.

[Thisisarace]

i dont get it. I loike the viewport cube..alot..

[playsbba018]

lol I like how "leave the room" is only one word in German

[EliteIII3]

woooot? blender is not bad!!

[golemkonty]

i worked with max, maya and lightwave for many years, and i find them fucking annoying! im stuck with the new 2.5 blender now for an year, and i find it the best tool i ever used! i love it and i dont want to swich again to maya!

[golemkonty]

BLENDER BOY, BLENDER BOY!

[FloMonKish]

Maya is like a child room all messed up and Softimage is like the parent's room all neat and clean :)

What I dislike about Maya is it's curve editor for animation.

xsi: select a point, move the handle freely

maya: select curve, make curve tangent, select point, select handle, activate move tool, middle click to move...and you cant even move it freely...

[HDaviator]

I actually prefer softimage for modeling over maya or 3ds max. The interface might not be as good looking as that of maya or 3ds max but what is important for artists is ease of use and softimage is easy and simple to use without the need to have a phd in computer engineering just to figure out where to find a tool you need. (Of course an exaggeration but you know what I mean).

[ImaginationRendering]

Nice job!

watch my jobs!

youtube.com/watch?v=SwXmIHyzmX­E

- - - RENDERING IMAGINATION - - -

[paulosemifusa]

hahaha...vey cool...

[adrencg]

When one company owns all the big software, innovation dies. Try playing chess with yourself, and you'll see what I mean.

[Mounty2010]

I'm a Softimage user and tried very often to switch to maya & 3dsmax,

but every time i tried, it ended up with the same sentence: "i dont know

why, but it doesnt fit into my brain, i dont get it !". MAYBE, if i had started

with 3DSMax / Maya years before, i would now say the same about XSI.

But from today, i have to say: i dont understand the UI of 3DSMax / Maya

and i'm breaking my fingers when transform, rotate, scale and select

geometry ... it's just not compatbile with my brain ;)

[Mounty2010]

This is so freaking funny, i really had to laugh at some sentences :D

I dont like autodesk BUT i have to confess (admit), that softimage 2010

was the BEST Softimage i ever had since Softimage 4. I dont know if

Autodesk developed it themself or if the "old developers" of XSI 7.0

are still developing Softimage for Autodesk, but they did a good job !

[Mounty2010]

i cant post the comment i would like to post ... thanks youtube.

[Consumerofknowledge]

Yes, Autodesk acquired Alias and Avid, oh well.

[DarkArcz]

@nazworkshop Either way, I've still gotta pick up Maya sooner or later. The college Im planning to enroll into happens to teach using Maya as a medium, so I really don't have much of a choice in the matter. Still, if I can afford it, I'll pick up modo as a second option. I've had a dab with its evaluation version and watched a few tutorials, and I've gotta say, it certainly looks interesting.

[DarkArcz]

@nazworkshop All Wiki has to tell me about modo is that it has a workflow that is different from most 3d suites. Something about "combining a small number of tools in creative ways". So you basically have to create your own tools to get the job done? Sounds a bit cumbersome. Still, I guess I could always give its trial version (if it has one) a try. I was pretty bad at using the sculpting tool in Blender, so I dunno if I should consider Zbrush, which is basically a sculpting program.

[DarkArcz]

@nazworkshop I was always under the impression that proficiency in either Max or Maya (or both) is practically a necessity in the 3d industry. Doesn't Autodesk always brag about Maya's role in the Ice Age series/Avatar? Or about Max's role in various video games? Since I've never seriously used either, I dunno how they fare in comparison with the other competing programs - but ya gotta admit that they have good publicity.

[r4jk3]

1:30 to 1:55 BLENDER BOY HAHAHA :)))))))

[haikallp]

autodesk has three 3d animation software; 3ds Max, Softimage, Maya..i think they should sell Softimage..having 3 is abit too much and furthermore, its the least popular amongst the three

[0RobinHood1]

@haikallp the least popular but the best.nothing compares to XSI.

[DarthPro]

hahahaha awesome xD

SOFTIMAGE RULEZZZZ

[ResidentAk]

I use Maya :) it works just fine.

[haikallp]

i'm a Cinema 4D user and i find it great..it's user friendly and quite easy to pick up. However, there are not much NURBS. C4D is cheaper than Maya and 3DS MAX though..as for Blender..for a cheap software, it is great..the only problems is that the UI is hard to learn.but once u do, it will do just fine :)

for now, i'm planning to use 3DS Max

[thepryest]

@studmuffinmg Yeah I hate Maya's bugs, tools that split along a polygon and then forget what you've split!

[martok666]

i keep watching that video and its still hilarious, i love it when they settle for buying softiamge and predicting they will ruien the interface with in months rolf!!!

[JETZcorp]

Max?

Maya?

Give me Inventor! It amazes me on a daily basis.

[DarkArcz]

I always had the impression that Maya and 3DS Max were owned by different companies, since the fanboys of either one seem to enjoy bashing the other on a daily basis. Now I realise that those fanboys who proclaim that "3ds development sucks" or "the people who wrote Maya were idiots" were basically biting the ass of their home team. As for me, I'll stick to being a Blender Boy, and port whatever knowledge I got from it to one of AutoDick's programs when I need to fill a job resume. ;)

[Mad94John]

XD haha AutoDick's XD hahahaha.

I have 3ds Max and MudBox, they seem fine to me, I started on blender and Maya

[Iffipocolypse]

@DarkArcz Maya was actually made by Alias.

Autodesk bought Alias and Maya.

[vapourmile]

@DarkArcz Well, this happens a lot, the 'nerd' label has always signified a lack of social skills as much as is does technical knowledge. For this reason, the computer hugging classes, esp through the comment feature of You Tube, are becoming infamously associated for their invective and poison-pens. Heaven knows what went wrong in their life.

[bouchandre]

@DarkArcz Yeah that's my opinion: 3DS max is better for gaming, Maya is better for movies and tv shows

[GhostOfACPast]

@DarkArcz At one time, prior to 2008, they were. I hated Max and loved Maya then Autodesk took them over and I left Maya as Maya started going in a direction I didn't like (reminded me more and more like 3ds-Max). XSI I absolutely loathed when I tried it because it demanded 22+ inch screens to work in comfortably but, at the time, I only had a 17" CRT.

[surfermx]

@DarkArcz poor idiot, 3DS & Maya r same company (Autodesk)

the point is how you fucking dare to say u didnt know this, what a fucking cinic

[DarkArcz]

@surfermx Oh i r poor idiot? cuz i always so cinic? hurr durr ... Yeah, real good impression there, pal. I is sure u is genius.

Though even if you your comment wasn't so unintentionally funny, I've already lost interest in 3D modelling/animation as a career option, so I honestly don't care about the whole "Max VS Maya VS Blender" topic anymore.

I still promote Blender to potential hobbyists, though, since neither of AutoDick's programs seem to be wallet-friendly.

[sapirsapir1]

ill shot the bitch who wrote the viewport cube!!

hahahahaha

[marktse]

@sapirsapir1 i actually like the view compass. Great for modelers. The cube is kinda useless.

[LazyCoder]

LMAO @ 1:53 "BLENDER BOY!" I'm a blender boy!

Not one mention of lightwave though...

[svirrsvarr]

Well, i use Modo 401, as much possible anyway. It's great!!

[trence5]

LOL, and that's why some of my boys use Cinema 4D for their personal projects LOL

[thekilon]

BLENDER BOY.... You killed my XSI you Autobots bastards!!! I hate softimage too.... arggggg

[nooneisright]

I think XSI being bought by Autodesk means another worthless application spotted!

[kshep92]

I am so glad someone finally did this!! I thought for months that I was the only one who found Maya's interface to be utter garbage and found it strange that Autodesk has three different applications (Maya, 3ds Max and Softiamage) that do basically the same thing.

Who knows which one to learn since all of them are (according to them) "The industry standard". Same goes for that Flint, Flame, Inferno thing.

Why can't they be more like Adobe with one app performing one function?

[trence5]

Who knows...... Maybe they'll combine the best of all 3 into one super app.

[ladex142]

Maya, Max, and Softimage are 3d application that can do basically the same thing but differently, this is true for other 3d application also.

Each 3d package has its pros and cons, an artist can then choose the one that suits them the most, I use softimage and can't imagine using Maya or anything else

But i most say that I don't know what Autodesk hopes to archive by having three 3d application!

[MouthofSaurons]

HAHA The View Cube was the fucking worst addition EVER to 3ds Max haha!!

[shakoror]

Priceless! I have seen the Hitler clip used for two different parodies now but this was the funniest!

[caixiaoshan]

haha

[stevejjd]

LOL that was so good!

[r4jk3]

monopoly

[thejohnfreeman]

BLENDER BOY!

[idontknowaproperone]

Funny

[pipiduro]

BLENDER BOY LOL

[getoffmyphone]

Great video. Hysterical

[robertbowen]

COMING SOON... 'Son of The Return of... Autodesk internal discussion about Lightwave'.

[Ba3dadBoy]

HAHAHA This is crackup! Bloody viewport cube! Blender boy!

[Jmanlyman]

HAHHHAHAHA this video is awesome, that bitch that wrote the viewcube is not bad, fire that SS officer who wrote the steering wheel.

[MrDefaulto]

Uh.. they were trying to make it more intuitive by adding the Viewport Cube, but typical 3Ders don't do intuitive, they just do "learn bad interface and deal with it". I'll stick with modo's clean, intuitive interface.

Oh yeah, the first line of this video said "partition", it should've been "petition"....

[aliancemd]

Ups, sorry, wrong. Maya Unlimited was 250 and now 4995, but, ye, Softimage is part of Autodesk now

[aliancemd]

Autodesk already got Softimage. Softimage is now part of Autodesk. And it now don't cost 250$ but 4995$

[sapirsapir1]

HAHAHAHAHA

BLENDER BOY!

ill shot the bitch who made the viewport cube!

[Dmitry334]

Я ржал, — Пристрелю суку которая написала ViewCube!

[MouthofSaurons]

Hahaha lol..

I must agree at 3:09...

The ViewCube was the most USELESS function EVER added in history to 3ds Max...

Why the fuck add a 3d cube with sides to click on, rather than using the fucking HOTKEYS that are already added (T - "Top View", R - "Right View" etc.. P - "Perspective")

[jesusstake]

Not lentendí

[ahslax59]

I'll fire that bitch that wrote the viewport cube.. Hahahaha

[TIDOWNOW]

Nice one! POV-RAY Boy!

[teaCupkk]

Adolf's gone soft. He should have fired ViewportCube girl. Better yet: have her byte down the capsule.

Max 2009 has SteeringWheels(TM) now. *facepalm*

[MAMAJUANA1242]

Hahah!! I'm a BLENDER BOY!!

[icebearRender]

buying maya was ok but now I dont get

much respect as an autodesk client. Now soft image brand looks fake, of course

[MichelleDri]

Hahaha I love this

Someone should do "Resistance is Futile" with Autodesk as the BORG, assimilating all 3D programs.

[ShakespeareAvenue]

Well Mac make the best machines for sure. Even Microsoft kak runs better on a Mac with VMFusion.

Mac is an ART machine but where it fuks up is CGI. Maya / Autodesk suck on a Mac. Autodesk sucks.

Mac with all the money from iTunes and iPhones etc... should have bought Softimage XSI then Mac would have everything.

Mac should still buy it from Autodesk. That would be sweet!

C4D, Maya all suck. Mac should really buy Softimage XSI and with the new coming Shake wowowow!!!

Spread the word!!!!!

[mardescrap]

Some folks fight for the environment, others for social equity... you fight for a metrosexual computer. Pathetic.

[marcusmessias102030]

Muito bom e engraçadp

só pra quem entende de designer hehehehe

É legal quando fala do blender boy, Houdini, O pov-ray hauahauhauhaua. Lembrando que todos são softwares famosos e concorrentes de mercado. Mas fala série né autodesk, 197 milhões??????????

[FWZIR]

Fantastic, perfect!

[coreAtheist]

And now Autodesk owns Softimage, as well.

[MouthofSaurons]

LOL So true, "Blender Boy" HAHA

And true, the Viewcube does suck.. i don't see a reason to pay 3500$ to click a cube instead of using hotkeys :P

[Animator40]

this is one of the funniest things ive ever seen!!!!! i dont really agree with the bagging out of autodesk because i think maya and 3ds max are amazing but so is xsi!!!!! BLENDER BOY!!!! hahaha. nah im a maya boy.

[dieselsurgen]

can someone please tell me the name of this movie. i saw it about halfway through and loved it but i dont rememeber the name of it...thanks

[realgray]

Downfall

[mardescrap]

Der Untergang, The downfall in english.

[tredfxman]

Haha - Genious! i laughed all the way... No hard feelings for us long beloved Maxon Users :0)

[thorbjoerna]

I still love that "BLENDER BOY" is used as a curseword xD

Fucking brilliant... :P

(But why not blaim it on Blender, when Microsoft CEO allready speaks so badly of GPL? xD)

[cresshead]

still funny to watch...months after it came out

[1000000smiles]

Brilliant!

[kopele578]

XSI Forever!!!

[TheTruthIsGonnaHurt]

FUCKING AMAZING !!

[AGRACUTA]

epic

[hugostv]

This is an amazing vid!!! This just encapsulates the feelings of all devoted XSI user's towards Autodesk greedy acquisition. This just made me laugh so hard because everything in this movie is so DEAD ON! Just love the ending : 'we'll fuck their interface withing months!!!! HAHAHAHA! So true! Brilliant work!

[growl980]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHH

you genius!

BlenderBOY ahahahahahaha cant stop ahahahah

[serpentu]

OMG hahahahahhha

brilliance, pure brilliance!

[JendaGnip]

xD xD xD

[hyperklavier]

Applause!

[monkaboo]

lmao

[blenderguy2008]

I will fire the one who wrote the viewport cube! Blender boy!

AGGGG ha ha ha ha ha!

[IntoxicatedTV]

i think instead of saying blenderboy he should have said, poserboy.

Cause blender is a bit complicated and im more impressed with blender artist than with poser artists....like me :-(

[kr3ml]

"I'll fire the bitch who wrote viewport cube !!!"

lol. Yes please!!

[eldrindgo]

software with a scripting language that no one knows.. haha..

btw, how's timothy vernor now?

[mayatitan]

he thought on mayas scripting language... that is C-like... but "no one knows" :D

[ErikRicardoLC]

keep laughting my friends in a couple of years Autodesk are going to buy Blender...no, just kidding :)seriously a few year ago Maya user were afraid of 3d industry apocalipse and what happend, nothing, so bear in mind the ultimate creativity tool you are gona use is your own brain.

[manfrom64138]

Maxon uber alis!

I have used - at least the demo version of - Maya, LW, XSI, & Max and have not regretted going with the "budget" 3d program.

[meatabuse]

"A professional interface that needs immediate user revision!"

I near shat myself laughing at that one! That was my immediate impression of Maya coming from a Max background.

[evolross]

Bravo! (100% Lightwaver here. With some Blender for odds and ends.)

[Humbertusmarius]

I use Max and Lightwave at work, while one of my co-workers uses Softimage. I hope autodesk doesn't ruin Soft by trying to make it more like Max. I use Max only because I have to.

[BeruPly]

Yeah, that's the truth! Thanks!

[jabuhrer2]

Wow, this is pretty funny...if you don't know dick.

[pivotgodxd]

dude that viewport cube lady can die and to hell with autodesk for buying out softimage. do you know how many people will get layed off/fired because of this?

[siy01]

Incredible just incredible, people must be thinking I'm having a fit of something, this is the funniest I've ever seen.*****

Bravo whoever cooked this up.

[omgLordLituslol]

this had myself and my coworkers howling when we found it a few days ago... we're a company that's recently switched to maya, while still trying to hold on to our XSI roots, and this clip lessened the blow for those of us who felt uneasy about autodesk's latest acquisition

this is all written by someone who clearly understands the industry

[motorcitymattman]

It doesn't matter what you use (personally, I'm a Maya/LW/ZBrush guy), this is just friggin' brilliant... i was touched when he made the Viwport Cube girl cry. classic - Blenderboy!

the original film's pretty damn good too. Definitely worth checking out

[7evenDown]

How many of you earn their money with XSI?

The ones who do...be happy that AVIDD just didn t drop it.

For the video .... lame..been there...done that!

[IasKev]

I'll probably get thumbs down for this, but what the heck.

I've seen nothing but great stuff come out of Maya since Autodesk bought it, and they're not killing XSI, so I can only imagine they'll make it better as well.

The vid would also have been a bit funnier if I didn't know German, because I kept hearing the proper language over the subtitles. But, that's not a fault of the video, just one of those things that happens.

[gawes1968]

from an ex avid employee point of view, this video is just the funniest thing I have seen in a while!! Congratulations!!

[yenvalmar]

what an amusing breath of truth. score 1 for user generated content bitches.

[TheNGTV]

Epic, epic win, especially on the Viewport cube :D

Long live XSI!

[vinsenjunior]

VERY COOL!!!!

A brilliant approach to visualise what Autodesk has been doing until now :p

[powellfx]

Cute, until he said 'steal'. Once bought, 'your virgin snatch is theirs to take until they are happy'. Happy hunting Autodesk - you bought a legit Monopoly.

[MeRenegade]

ROFL ! LOL ! :D

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

[DeluxeMan12345]

Mouhahaha, thats so funny.

It was nice for me to work with Softimage for the last 10 years, but this time is over now...

Softimage | RIP

[greenVFX]

Awesome stuff dude, and using Downfall to boot!? Nice touch!

[CesarMonteroOrozco]

Great video, I love it!

[lordcortez33]

i like it great video ........heeeeeeeeeee

[Yusuf3D]

lol

that was amazing ... I could believe that is what really happens at the time ^^

[sherifnagib]

HILARIOUS !

[vfxdude351]

This is like the nerdliest VFX-geek video ever....

... and I got every joke.

I'm so ashamed... 8-}

[sanzliot]

OMG, props for this, hilarious!

[cyberfx3d]

auAuhahuAHUAHUA

[acid4444]

this is awesome dude XD, what movie is it from?

[skiritanya]

Der Untergang

[acid4444]

cool, thanks

[mota313]

/watch?v=wlmPZbpG5sc

[kerrytouch]

I laughed so hard I count read the subtitles, i had to watch it twice.

I love the bit where she says "dont worry your on contract"........

[acihtog]

Try this: Der Untergang-Bedrijfsuitje

It's in dutch, but it's damn funny!!!

[vladimirjp]

LOL. i lmao.

that was great.

[GogCA1]

fantastic, I laughed my socks off and have to agree that autodesk will kill the UI....

[XsiRocksMySocks]

Many thanks to all the people who have enjoyed this video for what it is. Thanks for all the great comments I really appreciate them as it did take a couple of hours of work.

I was like so many people stunned by the announcement but after a couple of bottles of Jack Daniels I have come to remember all that Avid have done for Softimage. i.e Sweet F.A.

I look forward to seeing what Autodesk will do from here as they are seemingly more committed to 3D software than Avid.

Fingers Crossed.

[MDF103]

I love this video. By God this is genius piece of work. I hope tech firms are paying attention.

[Eidaechsli]

well, this isnt funny if u understand german too -.- :((

[love2manyamvs]

Lol funny clip

Ive been making models with XSI for awhile now, and then I hear autodesk buys softimage?!!?

********CCCCCCKKKK!!!!!

[YawnGod]

This scene from Der Untergang with ANY subtitles is EPIC.

EPIC!

[calbarrang]

Congratulations on this! Really funny clip. I really hope even AD cronies realize that these practices will be very unhealthy in the long term. Just stop innovating and bore all the industry to death.

[Silverframe]

well*

[Silverframe]

hahahaahhahahahaahahahahah :D Really weel done! :D  hahahahahahahahhahahaaa

[Mankkubus]

Oh crap!!

I shit my self!

[mariachi82]

LMFAO I'm a 3ds max user who was transitioning into XSI as the take over took place. Autodesk buying XSI? That shocked me to the bone! Worst news in years...

[clmx3d]

hahahahahaha, i had a very good laught on this, after all history has already been written, so dont hard feeling about this, i find it really funny and that's it

i think outer the monopoly things should be better for most users, i love softimage, but i felt like a lame move to set an option of navigating like maya...

About the viewcube....LOL :)

[cruzh3r]

Flawless heheheheheheh!

[rustysilo]

Absolutely hilarious.

[DarwinCD]

LORRL!! This is just plain COOL!!

[WWAPOT]

I think The Borg Angle, would've been much much better.

[zaixhadouken]

Haha, that was gold. Beware Houdini...

[XsiRocksMySocks]

Rat King...

Umm, really. Do you get out much ?

Perhaps there's a hatred against anyone forum where you could find support.

[DirectorDCHenry]

this is the most reused scene in teh history of the internets.

[DerOgraf]

not funny for german speaking people :p

[ShoGunz1083]

lmfao LAMEEEEEEEE everyone did a movie with that "hitler" scene, common get some new ideas

[borninyear78]

Great!Respects to the guy who made it!

[bgtubber]

Hahaha, great! The guy who did this deserves award!!! xD

[XsiRocksMySocks]

Thank you.

I'd like to thank God, my mother and all the other subtitlers around the world who made this possible.

[jamespfp]

Ha, semi-priceless stuff - like rubies, or Software Licenses!

[gramulho]

hahahahaha i loved! very funny with some nice touches for those in the industry. :D

[HunterZolomon]

Genius!! Thanks to whoever made this!

[Malanjo]

BLENDER BOY!! xD ahaha!

[superpos]

Oh my!... I was crying laughing... Great!

(anyway.. XSI will rule on the top!)

[dauntless2]

I´m so sorry for Softimage. Autodesk has done

a fantastic job the last years to ruin Max and Maya. Now softimage is next. It´s so unbelievable. Autodesk.... Fuck You !!!!!

[3DGURU2]

2:44 , LOL ...

[QDIGS04]

HAHAHAHA!

this is bestness spot on!

[BrutoPendejo]

PHAHAHAHAHA.....

Just great!

My respects to the guy who did this!

:)