Absolutely legid, except the “we invest” part. What did you spend? $300 or $1000?
Anyway, we need users, but we really need buyers.
Here’s our roadmap:
Survive!
If ALL of you great investors would spend $100 on us at once, we’d be back on track and could focus 100% on the things we’re after and those are split in two kinds of ways:
- Things we’d do ourselves (as always):
- get our major feature-wishes in: Hair/Fur, Particles completed, Output buffers and handling perfected, Endall bones solution (crazy stuff), Editing optimized/finished, Customizable interface, Shading perfected/more modes, Rendering features, Realtime render approach, Timeline editing of images/seq…
- Things we’d want a hired gun for:
- documentation, internet PR/Website, first support layer, organizer (shows/conventions), all the wonderful stuff we always had to struggle with, essentially, but that would be necessary to not be in a situation as we’ve been for 5 years at least.
Anyone actually in the mood to invest? Upgrade to professional! If enough people would upgrade to professional, it would be yet another way for us to focus again on what we really love. And it is messiah that we really love. It’s been a tough time and no need to lie, it’s still tough. But we havn’t given up, and that’s also because of you guys!
I must say, however, most of you have not even tried to fully use messiah and you havn’t even really discovered how far the powers of it go! I mean, just realize that everything I had done in the last 3 years at least has all been with messiah from animation to rendering. Most of you seemed to have just waited for someone to complain and then take this as a great explanation for your own lack of energy to explore! I mean, I understand, but then there is ME and I’m not lying and my work’s not lying and if you have any appreciation for the things I do, you’d be strapping your boots up and dash into messiah rendering with passion!
Anyway, nowadays I’m totally screwed up/spoiled, because of my own funny little excursion into writing a little renderer/shader. This thing is not just magically fast thanx to it’s limitations, it also is not limiting enough to stop me from using it myself. Now I can’t hang with anything that renders longer than 0.5 sec before I can continue to tweak or longer than 10sec to render final quality. I’m currently using messiah to render layers for me, which I then use in After Effects to render with the ZbT.
You better believe that I want this thing to be in messiah, too!
Anyway, we’re all still there and we’re suffering very much for having to risk reactions like yours before we can proceed. Of course, you were exaggerating with the 2 years, because it’s barely 6 months that things are slow again. The silence about Lyle’s disappearance was horrible and I have no idea how we could have been so weak not to disclose this more promptly. Particularely while we had these powerful experiences right after that, while we made those instant leaps out of old problems and made advances that finally made it all roll forward again. We were afraid, that people wouldn’t understand and get scared and jump off, I guess, as well as promissing investment situations, which might have been sensitive to this kind of severe appearing change. I honestly hate to excuse that, because it wasn’t me. I’m the idiot who says everything out loud, because I hate conspiracies, secretive nonsense and all that bullcrap. I live to give you what ever I come up with and hope to get something in return, that’s all. Along the way I need to be with you, need you to trust me and what easier way should there be than being honest and open (maybe being rich and in a house?). Idealism can be misjudged, true, but I havn’t tried to sell you what you can’t get from me. Sure, you’ve given me nothing but wonderful words and I appreciate it from the deepest part of my heart, which may not beat on words forever, but I still am here for you. I do personally forgive the weaknesses we have, because I know where they are coming from. A lot of them are actually nothing but the other side of the tremendous strength of our team. Despite the ever present ungratefulness of a lot of guys amongst you, who really like to be as loud as they can be, we’ve focused on the software, knowing what an important tool it can be for artists! That requires a lot of strength, too!
Mistakes happen and no matter how perfect it gets, mistakes will always come along somehow. We have the stuff in our heads and within our powers to give you marvelous tools to create what’s on your mind in ways that are non-destructive, intelligent, inspiring, fascinating, pleasant and fun. If this through you would only allow us to live for you, really. Our passion is still there!
You better copy that text to a save place, because once I had my coffee, I might just go ahead, clear it all again and write something like:
It’s alright, no worries, things are moving on! It’s perfectly valid to ask, though! I’m ashamed, because I focused on surviving myself and wrote the ZbornToy, which is the best 2.5d renderer for compositing in history. Nobody gets it, though, hehe, too innovative they say? So I’m still in limbo, but messiah is still moving, no worries! I’m just waiting for a sign that I can survive these horrible times and then I’ll be back full-force!
…hmmm…
…hmm, hmm, hmmm…
I’m so damn mad that I post this stuff, but hey, what the heck, be entertained! :bounce:
All you need to know: We’re here, we’re real and we’re still progamming messiah for you! We just suck bitterly when it comes to PR.
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