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Nichod
04-01-2007, 03:07 PM
No news on the pmG website yet, but got the following newsletter from Avid.

Avid Technology Acquires Assets of pmG Worldwide, LLC

Dear customer,

We are excited to announce that on March 28, Avid Technology, Inc. purchased the intellectual property assets of pmG Worldwide, LLC. Those assets will be managed by Softimage Co., Avid’s wholly owned subsidiary. With this purchase, Avid and Softimage are committed to continuing to develop, sell, and support pmG products, ensuring that our customers and resellers see no interruption in access to pmG products or services during this transition. With that in mind, Softimage will continue to provide the same sales, support, and services that were available from pmG in the past and pmG customers will continue to have the same sales and support contacts as they have had in the past.

As you know, pmG has been a pioneer in providing intuitive tools for animators developing plug-ins for 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema4D and Lightwave. Softimage has a 20-year history of developing the highest quality, artist-focused products for character animation with tools like SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT and SOFTIMAGE|XSI. We are very excited about the synergy between our respective technologies and what Messiah and Softimage can bring to the market moving forward. This combination will allow us to work together to deliver an even broader range of character animation solutions that allow animators to reach their artistic goals with greater ease across multiple 3D platforms.

We are also very pleased to announce that the pmG developers have joined the Softimage team in Montreal, bringing their expertise and knowledge to contribute to our future vision for character animation.

We look forward to working with you in the future, and continuing to offer 3D character production tools that empower artists to meet the needs of today’s most demanding productions. Should any changes occur as we move ahead, we will share details with you as soon as they are available.

If you have additional questions on the acquisition, please contact us at q&a@softimage.com

With best regards,
Marc Folmeonke
VP and GM

Softimage Co., a subsidiary of Avid Technology

And a link to the press release on the Avid website: http://avid.com/company/releases/2007/070338_pmG_avid.html
gent_k
04-01-2007, 03:18 PM
Nah, too obvious ;)

btw this is a straight copy of the press release for the acquisition of CAT right? Nice try. xD
Nichod
04-01-2007, 04:47 PM
Nah, too obvious ;)

btw this is a straight copy of the press release for the acquisition of CAT right? Nice try. xD

hehe. yeah. just joining in the festivities.
SunDog101
04-01-2007, 05:08 PM
Even if Avid(Softimage) did aquire PMG and developed Messiah that would be much better than Autodesk aquiring it and doing who knows what with it.
Parsec3d
04-01-2007, 06:22 PM
A classic

LoL...
Sil3
04-01-2007, 09:13 PM
This has "Fred" written all over it on a April's 1st joke :bounce:
Bugpoo
04-01-2007, 10:43 PM
Bah, that's old news....oh....wait.....:)
Dann-O
04-02-2007, 01:58 AM
Nice one got me going. Thought is this good or bad? Better than autodesk then the price will jump to 4,000$ and be a plug in.
GaryDXD
04-02-2007, 04:39 AM
Personally, I think the best thing would be for Newtek to buy pmg. This is my personal opinion, but I think something is going down in regards to a Messiah/Lightwave merger.

It would benefit both of them. Pmg is way ahead of Newtek in Character animation technology and Lightwave has a more accomplished and popular renderer plus a larger user base.

Again, just my personal hope and prediction.
stooch
04-02-2007, 08:42 AM
this is a very logical solution. i think that both lux and nt are missing the boat here. whoever picks up pmg would have a HUGE advantage in the CA department. :) maybe its time for pmg to make some phonecalls heh
Sil3
04-02-2007, 10:05 AM
There was a time i dreamed of that (NT or Lux buying messiah), now at this time i dont believe it anymore... but who knows
DMack
04-02-2007, 11:10 AM
Yeah, I REALLY wanted Lux and PMG to do the CA part together.....but that's a no go now.
chikega
04-02-2007, 07:35 PM
That would be something if messiah's CA tools were seamlessly built into LW 9.x or 10 ... it would benefit both NT and pmG.
Panikos
04-03-2007, 10:37 AM
seamlessly ????

That would require demolishing LW a lot
Parsec3d
04-03-2007, 03:04 PM
Well it was asked to all of us ,long long ago , if we wanted it to remain a plug or if we wanted it to become a separate program.
Spin99
04-03-2007, 04:29 PM
April Fool's April Fool's (!) :applause:
stooch
04-05-2007, 07:12 AM
haha i dont think anyone was fooled. just pondering.
Sil3
04-05-2007, 10:41 AM
Well it was asked to all of us ,long long ago , if we wanted it to remain a plug or if we wanted it to become a separate program.


It must have been during the Dinossaur age :p
chikega
04-05-2007, 11:58 PM
It must have been during the Dinossaur age :p

Yep ... about the same time an article came out about a Mac port .. hehe.
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