So rumours are Autodesk will be killing off Softimage after the 2015 release. Can't say I never saw this coming, It's taken the back seat ever since Autodesk got their grubby mitts on it. After all, they only bought it to keep it from their competitors hands and forcing Autodesk to do some innovating and work into their…
I don't believe thats accurate at all. Monopolies do not reign more freely. Autodesk has a vast influence on the market, since their applications get used more than others for certaint tasks, but they dont have a monopoly. If they kept buying all the competition, then yes it would be and in the past the system we have in…
It isn't a stretch to say Maya was acquired with the possible intent of cannibalizing its features for 3dsmax. What Autodesk discovered instead was that Max's architecture had reached its limits for further improvement and expansion. The program is 80% plugins. Retrofitting new features required enormous amounts of time…
Pretty much Avid wanted rid of it and Autodesk was there to pick up for a tidy sum than what it should have gone for, just to keep it away from competitors. If Dassalut had gotten it, it would have been competition for Autodesk for to do some work.
When autodesk bought maya I assumed they did so to build a new third piece of software that combined the best features of both 3dsmax and maya. Then I found out that autodesk is happy to just make incremental updates and add viewcubes to all their software...