[Ron Lindeboom]

Hello Steve,

While doing the new post moderations just now, a post you made in the Trapcode forum was flagged as inappropriate by a new member with little to no history here — compared to your own history here, which has been long and helpful.

We turned off his “inappropriate” tag and if he does it again, we will close his account.

So, I hope that helps explain what is going on. I will fill in the other moderators on what’s happening, so that we get this under control and ended soon.

Thank you for being a part of Creative COW. We appreciate having you here.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

We never thought you were trying to be devious, Steve. Your account is in good standing and you are a helpful guy. We are all good here. We hope your Internet is solid again and your issues are resolved.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hello Steve,

I have no idea what may be happening as I just went through your entire account and there was one post turned off over a year ago that looks like you did it because you made a different answer shortly after.

We have turned off none of your posts.

I am sorry but I have no answer for you.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

This hangs up and it took a couple of minutes for the preroll to play through, chirping and bouncing all along the way.

Ron

[Ron Lindeboom]

It is gone, we have deleted it.

HTH,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

I was Boris’s very first retailer back in 1995 when it was on diskettes and hand-copied manuals. I have known him for a little while, now. 🙂

Boris has always been more than generous and more than fair. Particle Illusion is in good hands and I couldn’t be happier about its future.

Whatever Boris decides, while I doubt it will make every last person happy, I am sure that the vast preponderance of users will be happy with where the product goes and how it gets there.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

It’s no myth.

😀

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Kathlyn and I couldn’t be happier about this new move, Alan. Boris is a true visionary and together, we see bright days ahead for particleIllusion.

Welcome back!

Ron & Kathlyn Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Sorry to have oversighted on this, Ralph. Sadly, many of us at the COW all have been very sick all at the same time. We apologize for seeming to have ignored you. We’re glad you figured it out.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Reading your gripes really causes me to have to pen a few lines in defense of Alan. My wife and I were personal friends with him for many years and there are few people who are as nice or who care about people, as Alan does.

Unfortunately, that does not mean that he has the legal standing to do one thing to assist his former customers. Does that mean that he sold Wondertouch and ran off with a boatload of money? I am sure he wishes that were true but insiders know that is not the case at all. Alan had worked his proverbial buns off trying to grow and expand particleIllusion but with every change of operating systems, hardware architectures, etc., his work piled up and became more than was humanly possible to achieve.

If you want to keep busting Alan’s chops, I will happily point out that Alan poured heart, soul, blood, sweat, and tears into making and growing particleIllusion. But he NO LONGER has legal standing to write, change, grant access to, modify, or anything else related to particleIllusion. He gave up that right when he sold Wondertouch to GenArts, in the hope that a bigger company with a far larger team could finish what he had much more than merely started. That things later went off the rails is not what Alan hoped for nor expected.

Busting his chops shows little understanding of the circumstances or any respect for one of the truly nice and caring people in this industry.

I have no idea whatsoever what Boris expects to do with particleIllusion, if anything. But I have known Boris Yamnitsky for decades now and must say that if — and that is a BIG if — anyone can get the ball over the finish line, it will be Boris. Again, I am not saying that Boris intends to do anything with PI. But it would not surprise me in the slightest to see him go in either direction, whether he chooses to let it die or update it.

But in the end, that is in no way a decision that Alan can make at this point. He lost his rights years ago. He had to move on and I wish him every success in whatever he does. He truly is a man that both Kathlyn and I consider a friend and one of the kindest people we ever met in this industry.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.