Ola,

#1

Ola my friends!
Hello gentlemen,

We are very happy to announce that our deal with EITG is complete (although some final formalities are still in progress). According to the now signed contracts, Tomas and the Igors are the owners of the Electric Image intellectual property and the whole of the Electric Image codebase, they have full legal rights to develop and sell all new versions of the EIAS applications (starting from EI9): Animator, Camera, Renderama and all related modules. EITG remains the only place to buy EI version 8.

Generally speaking, we plan a normal and natural evolution of all aspects of animation, infrastructure and rendering within the software. EI9 development started in spring 2009 and is going quite well. We’re seeking more programmers and we are working to create a new website and distribution system amongst other things. Our immediate plans are:

  • Start a new EIAS3D website and new forum http://www.eias3d.com/forums/ and improve it step by step.

  • Set-up an EI bug tracking mechanism.

  • Take over EI8 tech support (after finishing all the necessary formalities with EITG).

  • Collect a new beta-testing team.

Tomas and Igors

#2

Congratulations gentlemen. May you and EI be successful and we look forward to seeing all the great work you plan to produce.

#3

Congratulations are in order. I’m sure this has been an ordeal for everyone involved.

I’m looking forward to hearing your plans regarding EIAS, and wishing you and the Igors a productive and prosperous future.

#4

After the rain comes the calm, now is time to work hard ,render fast and retire young folks.
Good new for EIAS users.
Edgard
My eyes loves the color scheme, thanks once again EIAS3D.

#5

Congratulations! Cheers to the future.

Cj

#6

Sounds like progress! Good luck!

-Craig

#7

Congratulations from me too and much success in the future!

Regards
Stefan

#8

Superb news Tomas !

#9

All the best!

Greetings fantomaz

#10

Ola Tomas & team,

congratulations I am very pleased that legal problems are resolved, and we can start thinking about a 64-bits.

Cheers
Diego

#11

GRRR8! Thomas.
What is the next step?
FelixCat

#12

Ola,

We posted our next steps in the news of our forum…
:slight_smile:

Thanks

Tom

#13

Congrats Tomas and Igors. Continued Success with EI.

#14

Glad to hear it… Looking forward to the future…

#15

Congratulations. Looking forward to a new and bright future for EIAS.

Bill Dempsey

#16

Congrats guys! I’m excited and anxious.

I know it’s early but will the pricing structure change? Any plans on migrating old EI users (like myself) to upgrade to EI 9? I’m curious because if I upgrade to 8 at EITG now and 9 is released through EIAS3D where would I go for the upgrade.

Again I know its early but wondering if you have that mapped out.

#17

Hello,

Right now is a great time to upgrade to v8, email me with the version you would be upgrading from and I will email you the great offer. phil@eitechnologygroup.com
At this time, I don’t believe I will be distributing v9 and EIAS3d will have their own site and own distribution, if this changes, notifications will be sent otu.

Phil

#18

Thanks to Phil I’m finally in the V8 mode. I believe I have a lot of catching up to do. I’ll set up a post for this shortly.

#19

Congrats Tomas and Igors hope all goes well for you.
Also congrats to Richard Joly for being part of the team.

I’m going to be fading away from digital 3d for a little while as I continue working traditional sculpting and try to improve my painting and sketching skills… I signed up for the 2010 IMC.

I may try to work my way back to EIAS3d in the future depending on how things go…

No great loss for you all as I’ve been struggling with getting 3d work done anyway…

Best of luck to all,

Cheers,

Mike

#20

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