Buy competition, Bye competition! Softimage 2015 - The last version.

You've got a few years to cling in there regarding support but it looks like Autodesk are sending you 3DS Max / Maya's way. Unless of course you fancy giving Blender  (free) a twirl or the countless other products out there.

http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-softimage/overview

Tutorial: Animation snapshot in Maya.

I was looking for my old blog archives from previous ones I've had over the years as I wanted to pick out of the more interesting / informative entries (site content = visitors = ad revenue ) but I seem to have lost the archives. Needless to say, I still want some decent content for this blog so I'll stick up stuff I can dig out. Starting with this: