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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:32:22 -0800
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Subject: Re: [AE] Electric Image is alive!
From: Chris Biggs <christopher.biggs@gmail.com>
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That really brings back some memories and a few nightmares too.
C

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM,  <pixelbot@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
> Cheers
> Rich
>
> www.loopcorp.com
>
>
> 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.
>> http://www.eias3d.com/
>>
>>
>


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