Autodesk Motion Builder 7.5

#61

I guess we’ll be moving to Messiah. Autodesk is evil and steals patents and keeps 3d out of the hands of the normal person.

#62

That’s precisely what I’ve already done. Bought a used copy of Messiah: Studio and when I get the chance I’ll be learning that. It’s really a damn shame that Autodesk went down this road - I would have been happy to continue upgrading MB standard but since they’ve chopped that head off…

Oh well… perhaps eventually Messiah will have many of the features all of us love in MB - Messiah does have/will have an autorigger…

:frowning:

Megalodon

#63

I’m afraid, I’ll have to disagree with you Headless.

I use Motionbuilder not only as a mocap clean up tool but also as my main keyframe animation package.
IMHO the speed I can rig, animate and output my data is 2nd to none.

In the past, I would say MB was primarily a Mocap clean up tool ( I’ve been using it since 3.0) , but the MB team seem to be making great inroads in creating a fantastic all round character animation package.

#64

I use Motionbuilder not only as a mocap clean up tool but also as my main keyframe animation package.
IMHO the speed I can rig, animate and output my data is 2nd to none.

In the past, I would say MB was primarily a Mocap clean up tool ( I’ve been using it since 3.0) , but the MB team seem to be making great inroads in creating a fantastic all round character animation package.

And now this great innovative tool is only available for the elite and the haves, not for the have nots. Who cares what inroads they make now, it is only the large studio’s hands from this point on.

#65

Aye, true enough,
I couldn’t give a rats posterior what “innovative” features are thrown at it now, even in the fantasy world assumption I’d ever have that sort of money to spend, there are more pressing real-world issues it would be needed for.

What’s more, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if this was only the first in a series of price hikes.

Pretty poor form really, “here, you know this really useful tool you could buy, well now, you can’t have it”.
Like giving you a chocolate bar and taking it off you after you’d taken your first bite.

I guess the “have’s” can start acting all smug around us poor “have-nots” and basking in their ability to throw money at any problem. Ahh, to be so financially care-free must be really liberating.

#66

Dont see this kind of thing happening with software-- they might in the end open up a niche for more agressive and customer oriented companies.

Software market is very open for surprises.

(Who would have thougt that i would use a USD 100,- software for professional audio processing these days? I had the Emagic Platinuum Studio a few years back, when Apple bought it and discontinued the PC version-- my old version did not run stable any more under Win2000 , so i had to look for an alternative. I stumbled upon MagixAudio Studio, a cheap but nontheless powerful, thought out and stable solution, targeted at the hobbyist market, thus easy to use and understand. No more Logic, and I also did not have to buy the competitor (Cubase). Magix might not be the choice of an audio engeneer, but for multimedia puposes and sampling it does its job excellently).

Autodesk focusses on high-budget customers in the broadcast industry and seems to ignore the rapidly growing low to medium level market in multimedia/motiongraphics.

Olli

#67

Here is an example of a company who really wants to get things in the hands of everyone.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=350046

I know this is expensive for most but when you think about it, it is a reasonable price for something that gives you that pro look. They want these in people’s hands not out of them.

I always wondered why software cost as much or more than the hardware?

#68

looking for it on eBay?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Alias-Motion-Builder-7-Maya-3d-max-character-rigging_W0QQitemZ7236682121QQcategoryZ188QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

You can buy it now for $750USD, or the bidding startts at $350USD.

Seems like you can get practically anything on that site!

#69

looks kind of fishy. By the way did you notice Google bought Sketchup, and instead of hiking the price they kept the price but made a free version available.

Gotta love google over Evil Desk

#70

It says it’s not commercially licensed.
Ekhmm… what that means?
I would really not spend money buying software on ebay…
Most of the high end software doesn’t have the license transfer to other
user anyway…

Als

#71

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