Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #46499
From: Richard Green <Rich@loopcorp.com>
Sender: <richatloopcorp@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Electric Image is alive!
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:00:56 +0000
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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And here's where everyone (Tim S?) chimes in about spending $7000 on it before the price dropped to $2500 for the Broadcast edition! Back then it could only render phong - I remember raytracing being a big announcement, forget GI!  I don't think the images were misleading, the rendering was great for it's time. Certainly Paul S was a master but you can't blame them for putting the good stuff on their galleries. The new owner is another master user of EI, a Brazilian guy, I forget the name but he's a bit of a genius. I'd love to see it work out for him.
But that John Knoll quote on the new site is a bit misleading, the days of him rendering the Star Wars reissue in EI are long gone. I don't think it'll see much use on Ep 7!
I'm likewise on C4D, mainly rendering in Maxwell which surprises and delights me every time I hit render.

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Cheers
Rich



On 8 November 2012 16:45, Jack Tunnicliffe <jack@javapost.ca> wrote:
Tim:

You and I must have bought EI the same month. LOL. Sounds exactly like what we went through. We, too are on C4D these days.

Jack Tunnicliffe
Java Post Production
www.javapost.ca



On Nov 8, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Tim Thiessen <pixelbot@comcast.net> wrote:

Don't get me started - I bought EI 2.9.2 back in the day for $2500, 6 months later they dropped the price to $200 (or so) and when they wanted me to upgrade to v3.0 they had the nerve to ask for a $400 upgrade fee. Their marketing material were misleading in my option (they featured work by Paul Schbiteroff sp? - and there is no way I was getting that type of reflection or look out EI anytime soon) I switched to cinema 4d and vowed to never give another cent to EI. Of course I deserve some if not all of the blame for my purchase - I didn't try out the software (it was 1999 and downloading a whole program to try out was still a new idea) and I went against the advice of a friend who suggested C4D.

Sorry for the rant
Timt

iPhone

On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:10 AM, Jim Kanter <jim@d-film.com> wrote:

EIAS has  just released v9.


 
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