Avid cuts 410 jobs
Marc-Andre Carbonneau
http://www.ani-jobs.com/2008/10/27/avid-restructures-cuts-410-jobs/
MAC • Senior VFX Artist
Ubisoft Digital Arts
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Gene Crucean
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Gene Crucean
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Thiago Costa
Phil Williams
I’m not an Avid fan.
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owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Gene Crucean
Sent: 28 October 2008 17:12
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
Who's Avid?
2008/10/28 Marc-Andre Carbonneau <marc-andre...@ubisoft.com>
http://www.ani-jobs.com/2008/10/27/avid-restructures-cuts-410-jobs/
MAC • Senior VFX Artist
Ubisoft
Digital Arts
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x3443
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kim aldis
Yeah, Go Autodesk!
From: owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM]
On Behalf Of Phil Williams
Sent: 28 October 2008 17:26
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Avid cuts 410 jobs
I’m not an Avid fan.
greetings cards, calendars, framed and unframed prints
kim aldis
kim aldis
From: owne...@Softimage.COM
[mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe
Sent: 28 October 2008 17:17
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
Yeah! Jobs we heard of, he works at Apple.
Jennifer Goldfinch
Can I keep this email for my records? J
Speaking of records, I was clearing out my filing cabinets (some files which pre dated my Soft tenure) and I found printed copies of the Sumatra launch plans, as well as the press release about the new product.
I kept those, I couldn’t throw them away…
Shaun Chapman
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Jennifer Goldfinch <jgol...@softimage.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking of records, I was clearing out my filing cabinets (some files which pre dated my Soft tenure) and I found printed copies of the Sumatra launch plans, as well as the press release about the new product.
>
>
>
> I kept those, I couldn't throw them away…
>
>
Shaun Chapman
Senior VFX Artist/Animator,
Pure (New York)
212-213-2200 ext. 105
sh...@pureny.com
www.pureny.com
Greg Punchatz
Greg Punchatz
Anthor
I even have the 2.6 manuals...
I have been thinking for years about making an archive on the web for
old dead 3d Software.
I was thinking about electroGIG, wavefront, Lightwave, etc.
But maybe it's time to add Soft 3d to that pile.
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Matt Lind
Soft3D.
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owne...@Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Anthor
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:37 PM
> To: X...@Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
>
> Me too - and the sumatra cds.
> I even have the 2.6 manuals...
> I have been thinking for years about making an archive on the
> web for old dead 3d Software.
> I was thinking about electroGIG, wavefront, Lightwave, etc.
> But maybe it's time to add Soft 3d to that pile.
>
> ATR
>
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:18:22 -0400, Shaun Chapman wrote:
> > I keep trying to throw out my Creative Environment manuals,
> but can't
> > for some strange reason :-)
> >
> > ---
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Jennifer Goldfinch
> > <jgol...@softimage.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Speaking of records, I was clearing out my filing cabinets (some
> >> files
> > which pre dated my Soft tenure) and I found printed copies of the
> > Sumatra launch plans, as well as the press release about
> the new product.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I kept those, I couldn't throw them away...
Thiago Costa
On Oct 28, 2008, at 7:41 PM, "Matt Lind" <ml...@carbinestudios.com>
wrote:
kim aldis
Frank Lenhard
ciao
franky
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 9:26:15 AM, you wrote:
ka> I am. Softimage 1.0. Hah!
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Ponthieux, Joey
something like 2.0 I think
Joey Ponthieux
NCI Information Systems Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
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From: Deon Roux <dr...@villagefx.com.au>
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:39:29 PM
Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
3DStudio DOS R3, Imagine V1 !!!! ;-0
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Wuijster" <ro...@casema.nl>
To: <X...@Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:51 PM
Alan Fregtman
first XSI I touched was 4.2. I also recall fiddling with Bryce when I
was very young.
Ponthieux, Joey
Anthor wrote:
> Me too - and the sumatra cds.
> I even have the 2.6 manuals...
> I have been thinking for years about making an archive on the web for
> old dead 3d Software.
> I was thinking about electroGIG, wavefront, Lightwave, etc.
>
Topas. There are numerous others. When you think about what has happened
to the industry over the last 20 years it's mind boggling. The final 6
or so serious developers of 3D software were preceded by many attempts
to create successful 3D software. The genesis of the industry is riddled
facts that are not well such as the role broadcast equipment
corporations such Ampex, Pinnacle, or Sony played in bringing affordable
3D to the masses, the intense and often failed effort to bring 3D down
from unix and onto the PC, and massive corporate blunders by companies
who were sitting on top of the 3D world. Blunders such as those made by
Cubicomp. Its definitely a story and history thats not been adequately
told. Worst, it's a history that any 1st year animation student using
Maya, XSI, or Houdini could never really appreciate. You really had to
be there.
I know that XSI hasn't died, but Softimage has been with us longer than
any other entity this industry has produced in over twenty years, aside
from maybe Pixar and a few other studios. Without knowing what will be
coming, but having some idea based upon Autodesk's past acquisitions,
it's hard to imagine the idea of this venerable name and institution
disappearing into the abyss of 3D history. It's truly been a survivor in
what has become a massive heap of valiant but unfortunate attempts to
improve CGI.
Joey Ponthieux
NCI Information Systems Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
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Marc-Andre Carbonneau
marketing once wanted to call XSI.... NL3D (for non-linear 3D)
What a poor idea that was!
And then someone from that same list said:
"you can't call it that! Otherwise everybody's going to say: Softimage:
To infinity...from behind!"
MAC
-----Original Message-----
From: owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Ponthieux, Joey
Sent: October 29, 2008 10:39 AM
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
Luc-Eric Rousseau
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau
>
> Anybody from the very first Sumatra beta list remembers that Softimage
> marketing once wanted to call XSI.... NL3D (for non-linear 3D)
>
> What a poor idea that was!
> And then someone from that same list said:
> "you can't call it that! Otherwise everybody's going to say:
Softimage:
> To infinity...from behind!"
that was Greg Punchatz... who lobbied the higher ups to reconsider the
name. That was on Jan 7th, 2000.
kim aldis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
> Sent: 29 October 2008 15:52
> To: X...@Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: Avid cuts 410 jobs
>
>
kim aldis
to them what a disastrous name it was. That's the trouble with lawyers;
stupid.
Marc-Andre Carbonneau
You have all that archived somewhere? ;)
And thanks should definitely go to Greg for both the joke and the
lobbying.
-----Original Message-----
From: owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sent: October 29, 2008 11:52 AM
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Avid cuts 410 jobs
Luc-Eric Rousseau
problem with the name's prounciation, but after hearing it it's
impossible to forget. The developpement team was fighting
marketting on this one, this was the hammer we needed. I may still
have the NL3D logo somewhere.. it looked kinda cool, actually. ;)
> From: kim aldis
>
> I was going on to say; not much lobbying was needed when it was
pointed out
> to them what a disastrous name it was. That's the trouble with
lawyers;
> stupid.
>
> > From: kim aldis
> >
> > Actually a few of us did.
> >
Stephen Davidson
I still have Autodesk 3D Studio DOS 386 Release 2,01a
in a box, with manuals, dongle, and floppy disks.
Ironic, that I'm now an XSI user.
I don't know why I keep them. Nostalgia, I guess.
Maybe the same reason I still have my ElasticReality,
and Matador manuals (both, also purchased by Avid)
... I paid so much for them, I can't bring myself
to throw them away. Or... maybe I'm just a packrat.
Best Regards,
Steve Davidson
(954)552-7956
www.3danimationmagic.com
Greg Punchatz
Stephen Davidson
I did not save my Cubicomp Picturemaker manuals.
Not many of us here remember those times.
Cheers!
Best Regards,
Steve Davidson
(954)552-7956
www.3danimationmagic.com
Tim Leydecker
NL 3d gives anal 3d, I had thought it to be NaiL3d.
cheers
tim
Greg Punchatz wrote:
> The truth is I got an anonymous email from some one at soft letting me
> know the plans for the name....and then I lobbied for a name change.
> Lyn Caudle made the Anal (NL) 3d box art that we sent to soft, that was
> the end of that name :) Thank god
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Greg Punchatz*
> *Janimation Sr. Creative Director*
> Janimation
> 214.823.7760
> www.janimation.com <http://www.janimation.com>
kim aldis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Tim Leydecker
> Sent: 29 October 2008 17:28
> To: X...@Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
>
Ponthieux, Joey
Move up>Rot/trans>Render :)
There are command key sequences such as that which I'll never be able to
purge I suppose. I'm sentimental about cubi, but I don't miss it. Every
first year animation student should be required to make a cube, texture,
animate and render it on a Picturemaker before moving on to other
things. Should take the good part of their first semester of school.
Matador, however. I can't express how badly I miss that software!
Joey Ponthieux
NCI Information Systems Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
____________________________________________________________
Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and
do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
Stephen Davidson
Ah, yes ... the good old days?
I think I like how things, in our industry, have evolved.
After all, If Matador hadn't been "shelved" by Avid, I
would have never discovered AfterEffects.
Between AfterEffects and some plugins, I can
Do most of what I could do with Matador for
a fraction of the cost. I can even do a "morph"
kind of like Elastic Reality, but not quite.
Here is a link you might enjoy:
http://www.laurelsys.com/Company_History.html
Remember Jim Newton?
Shaun Chapman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com> wrote:
>
> I've got some Eddie manuals (3.1,3.2), and the old DKit manuals for
> Soft3D.
>
> Matt
>
Matt Lind
From: owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Shaun Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:51 AM
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
Ponthieux, Joey
Sig93. Too bad it didn't work out for him. His ideas were way ahead of
their time.
As for Matador, indeed it wasn't as powerful as current apps, but no one
has ever been able to replicate the shear simplicity of Matador image
stores. I've got all the features of Matador right in XSI, but what
made Matador most unique was the stores interface and that didn't
translate to XSI . It really is a shame.
Steven Caron
wow its pretty dusty in here...
;)
Eric Lampi
From: Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com>
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:04:00 PM
Subject: RE: Avid cuts 410 jobs
From: owne...@Softimage.COM [mailto:owne...@Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Shaun Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:51 AM
To: X...@Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Avid cuts 410 jobs
Raffaele Fragapane
I mean, instead of receiving it handed to you outside school, on blue floppies, from an AD rep pirating their own products in the hope that enough students knowing them will produce enough cheap labour to make acad and 3ds prevail over much better and even cheaper products?
As for memory lane...
I have LW for amiga sitting somewhere, the lw4 box (first version for nt) sitting somewhere, SI|3D 3.5(1?) manuals beside those (acquired post-mortem though), and tshirts and stuff dating back to SI|3D last couple releases before it got culled.
I still have XSI 1.0 manuals too on the same shelf for sentimental value :)
But I was young enough back then to still be young now, unlike some people talking about symbolics from when they were in their late 30s already :p
Not that I'd ever name them.
Stephen Davidson
Symbolics …wow ..I had forgotten about all those knobs.
J yeah… I was in my 30’s
Eric Lampi
From: Raffaele Fragapane <raffsx...@googlemail.com>
To: X...@Softimage.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:47:42 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Avid cuts 410 jobs
Prodeep Ghosh
Prodeep Ghosh