Leo talked about that it’s been great working with Softimage. As from today (or a month from now) Softimage doesn’t exist anymore. Company structure and company policys will take a effect slowly and it will happen.
Basicly we are ******
Autodesk Signs Agreement with Avid Technology to Acquire Softimage
cresshead
#442
this could be a great time for luxology to entice some of the xsi programmers over to the modo development team…get modo up and running as a FULL 3d app and so competition for maya, xsi and 3dsmax.
marsino
#443
if Autodesk, they bought XSI for $35 Million, then they must spend much more money for MAXON cinema 4D
because, Cinema 4D has much much more user base than XSI
barbapapa
#444
Sad… The licensing policies… the costumer support… it will slowly change … and the webpage… now we will have to hang around the Area and that stupid Autodesk corporate product website. with even more stupid product descriptions that dont say anything.
Is not that i care really about those things… but is a real symptom of the industry being absorved by one company with deep pockets and not real care for the clients ( what about the european clients?? now we have to expect double the price for the same software as in the states…)
Really sad
:eek:
cresshead
#449
i DON’T think luxology is ‘public’…so they’ll have to offer the people who own it the money rather than a share buyout as there are no shares available…
same with newtek’s lightwave 3d.
(in French)
ThE_JacO
#451
Sorry Joe, but it’s not rubbish, it’s pretty factual.
It would have been rubbish two years ago, maybe even one year ago, it definitely isn’t now.
Paul’s post on his blog is pretty good I think in terms of how simple it is and in what key to read some of the news.
http://softimageinsider.blogspot.com/
This doesn’t change the consequences of what happened, and as I already said I’m the first not being too fond of this, but it does give you a better idea of where this is coming from.
If you think XSI wasn’t doing well in sales, you clearly lost touch with the industry, Soft and their staff, or both. That or you decide to delude yourself into thinking this way out of bitterness for I’m not sure what.
I respect you, your experience and your opinions, but in this particular case we’re talking of something factual, and not opinions.
AnonyMouse
#452
What maintenance for 3 products??? There is no need. That is the monopoly. You like it - buy it, don’t like… what…
But there will be new things for sure: all products of such gigantic companies becomes slower, bigger, with higher requirements (look at windows and adobe) and more bugs. So you will need new PC to run the next new logo. Pardon, the next new version. Look at autodesk’s 3ds max…
I think they will not mix the features. This way you will have to buy 2 or more to have complex solution, hahaha :hmm: And there will be more courses, paid tutorials. Also if they make new software there is no guarantee that people will move to it. So it is good now. No need to change anything.
I know monopoly good, it is the reality here, talking for everything, not CG. :banghead:
“we dropped Foundation because it would have been close to impossible to decouple ICE from the Foundation sku (and would have been a drain on development, as well as expensive).”
I think it is obvious - they just could miss ICE in fnd. The idea is if you need modelling tools mainly for a studio instead of 500$ will have to pay 3000 
FND made a competition inside Softimage products. If you remember Discreet Plasma…
ThE_JacO
#453
Share buyouts and takeovers are a very different thing from what’s happened with the last couple shockwaves.
Mudbox was bought off owners, Alias was bought off an investment fund, Kaydara was a freebie that came with Alias that the investment fund owning alias interim between sgi and ad bought, and Soft was bought off Avid, not taken over like if it was an independantly quoted division that you could carve into.
In the case of LW and Modo though I think they’re not at risk of being borged by AD mostly because I doubt AD would be interested in first place.
I can agree though that when individuals own the companies, a pride factor comes into play which changes the game slightly, a factor that doesn’t apply (in the same measure) to a company like Avid selling a division for need of liquidity.
ChrisDNT
#454
A few months ago, I was planning to buy Foundation, because I’m only interested in modeling and having an host application for my Fryrender copy. You know all what happened.
But today, I’m asking myself if it could be possible that Autodesk has had some influence in the Foundation pull-out?
Frankly, for doing some modeling and hosting Fryrender, the 500 dollars Foundation would have been perfect for me, but there’s no way I will buy some overpriced Autodesk softs for doing this.
Buexe
#455
wow, that`s some news and obviously the community is following this closely. Hopefully it will be good. Strange that Autodesk seems to be the only player of the big 3D package vendors with a working business model that allows expansion.
ediris
#456
I am sure there will be some companies that will merge forces, there is so much out there that i am sorry for people that depends on AD products. But one thing to consider is that we depend in those main applications , they have set the standard so we have to put of with their s…t
Lone_Deranger
#457
Rather than spending time developing “viewcube” gimmicks why not spend some of that vast wealth AutoDesk sits on and spend it on something a little more productive? And by that I don’t mean looking for all the best bits of Intellectual Property to strip out of XSI and spot weld into Max (you sure were quick to emphasize that one in your blog).
Ability to innovate being an alien concept to AD, why not attempt the next best thing and port some of your better purchases (Mudbox… and yes, now XSI) over to OSX. You might actually get some positives out of this thread.
EsHrA
#458
phew, sticking with LW and C4D here!
no intent to throw my money into the bottomless autodesk pitt…
mlon
DDS
#459
the more I think about it, the more I don’t understand why no one else got interested in Softimage? Not that it was expensive! Autodesk is not the only company that can afford it with no trouble, cmon. 35 milion is BS nowadays.
Maybe others were actually interested but Softimage didn’t see in them a possibility for financial stability?
Will we ever know?
Steve_Green
#460
That’s pretty depressing - and I use Max.
Soft seemed to be doing the innovation lately, and I was seriously looking at buying it because I wasn’t happy with the last couple of releases of Max…
hrrrmph.
No matter how you spin it, I can’t possibly see how having one company owning 3 major apps is good for innovation, or user choice.
- Steve