actually when I complained that I had spent $2500 they said well they had people who had paid over $7000 for the software, my only thought was, "So you have a history of screwing over users, good to know" They will never get another dime from me.
timt
From: "Richard Green" <Rich@loopcorp.com>
To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:00:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AE] Electric Image is alive!
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