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Besides the problem illustrated in LIFE AFTER PI I think that AutoDesk seems to buy up all/most of the competition is a bit worry some and every bit of more com
by panzi 13y ago
Besides the problem illustrated in LIFE AFTER PI I think that AutoDesk seems to buy up all/most of the competition is a bit worry some and every bit of more competition is a good thing.
- berkut 13y agoWell, Rhythm and Hues used their own proprietary software for just about everything other than texture painting (Mari), so that doesn't really apply here.
- panzi 13y agoI mentioned two different problems. One of them was that there is not enough diversity in 3D software. If you say that Rhythm and Hues used their own software, now that they are no more this means that there is even less diversity. So what does not apply here? I'm not sure you got what I meant and if that's so then I don't understand what you thought that I meant.
- berkut 13y agoThat VFX companies often write their own software (happening less and less these days) to do something commercial packages can't - or at the very least heavily customise something like Maya. So the lack of diversity in software for VFX doesn't hurt the big studios that much.
- panzi 13y agoNow I understand what you meant.
- jscheel 13y agoYep, Autodesk just recently announced that they were shutting down Softimage, after promising they would not shut it down post-acquisition. They are a plague on the VFX software industry.