I, for one welcome 3DS Mayaxsi and our new Autodesk overlords! This is weird, but not necessarily terrible. No one really complains much that apps like Photoshop and Flash are industry standards. If Autodesk finds a way to cram all that graham into an uber 3D app, that's cool. Okay, I know that's probably not going to…
alias was never a big player (compared to the league autodesk is playing in, we are talking here about number 4 of the software developers worldwide) they had maya and... what? alias was almost broke and autodesk owned the whole posteffects market, ok half of it, the rest was avid and adobe erm well wtf ok avid just sold…
As far as Blender goes it is true that Autodesk is not going to be able to buy them out and their odds of hiring away more than a small percentage of the top developers are very small. A number of them are already employed full time as Blender devs, some of them are college students working on their theses, some of them…
Autodesk having all 3 main biggest 3d software packages will kill all the new things comming on the market, they wont be able to get the high quality that Alias and Softimage were making their softwares because there was a war going on, and now, an internal war? Does this sincerely will work? Anyway, who ever asked if Maya…
Autodesk buys XSI.. so? Did they change Maya a lot when they purchased that? Or Mudbox? (This is me actually wanting to know and not being a sarcastic asshole).
What's the situation with Lightwave currently? Is it really slowly dying or are they planning something in their rebel base to destroy the Autodesk Deathstar lurking in the depths of space just after zapping XSI to cinders...
We've had this discussion before but I'll have it again. Big companies buying indie software results in the functional end of the software. If I find a PuppetShop bug, or need a new feature I can't write myself, I can have it in literally minutes if Kees is online. Try this with Max- you have to hire an Autodesk engineer…