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chikega
11-30-2004, 03:02 AM
I picked up the latest issue (58) of 3d World at the bookstore and started to peruse it. And much to my surprise, right after the Cinema 4d 9 and Shade7 Pro reviews, was a review of messiah:studio 2.0 by Benjamin Smith. Overall, it was a favorable review. There are images by Thomas Helzle, Taron and Sergio Caires. It got 8/10 in "range of features" but got bumped down one notch for "value for money" 7/10 b/c of XSI's recent price drop (no modeler). Actually that seemed to be the underlying theme throughout this issue, XSI's price drop and the effect on the industry. :)
Suricate
11-30-2004, 08:42 AM
Yeah, I saw that review as well and I agree that it was generally favourable. The price comparison with XSI as well as the future prospects were fairly evaluated:

'...it's going to have to square up to some impressive competition. Otherwise it could remain a quirky, overgrown plug-in with a small, hardcore user base.'

A few things suprised me though, e.g. Ben Smith seemed to be quite fond of the edit sphere and he also mentioned hair effects. I guess he was referring to soft-body dynamics for hair as in Taron's 'Tia' scene, which is not the kind of hair like 'Sasquatch' or 'Shave and a Haircut'.

Overall I think that pmG can be rather happy with the review.
ThomasHelzle
12-01-2004, 07:39 PM
Hm - wouldn't it be nice if those people would ask before they use images? I have no problem with them using the stuff, but with me not knowing about it. Bad habits.
Normally they should send at least some author's copies?

Comparing everything to XSI Foundation is just stupid IMO. Although I also bought it and am very happy about the low price, you can not throw everything away for nothing if you aren't Avid and have to get a bigger userbase by all means. Otherwise all developers worldwide could stop working today, me included. Compared to XSI my shaders should cost ~5$. I wouldn't even consider writing any tools for such "comparable" prices.

But it is good that it got at least a rather positive rating. Although I hate those "one guy fiddles around some hours and then gives some arbitrary rating" reviews ;)

I stopped writing articles for the german "Digital Production" magazine because they started to want shorter and shorter articles. 2 pages about the update of a major package gives you just some kind of "notice", but you don't learn anything. Before I was able to write 6-8 pages about the messiah:studio 1.5 release for instance.
Sign of the times maybe :shrug:

Cheers,
chikega
12-01-2004, 08:48 PM
OMG - I was wondering about that. They mentioned Taron, but failed to give credit to you or Sergio for the other images. That's a bit tacky and without permission to boot. :rolleyes:
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