I don’t foresee myself upgrading to Softimage 2011 or 2012 as I’m currently on 2010 and until I’m confident enough in ICE an upgrade isn’t gonna happen, besides it saves on upgrading :)

erm, I don’t think Framestore would mislead people like this.
Many of the larger production facilties in Soho use Maya, as well as other packages like Houdini.

Some one asked about Softimage studios in London on the xsibase forums, heres the link:
http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=43249

Well, here is a link of the official Frame Store web site where they say they use both apps Softimage and Maya.

“http://www.framestore.com/#/Commercials London/Chrysler,GoldenGate”

:)

Well its great to see that framestore is still open to using softimage on commercials. Their film pipeline is very much built around maya however, and I wouldn’t be surprised if prince of persia was all maya. At one stage they did have the most seats of si anywhere in london, but not these days. Still, with recent events, maybe they’ll start to look more closely again, these are the type of customers that the ‘companion’ marketing was aimed squarely at…