Like 3D? You are owned by Autodesk ;)
I’m not the most active member of the 3D community but as I was lazily visiting the Softimage website the other day I found out that it was acquire by Autodesk in November.
Now even I understand how big this acquisition is. One might compare it with Google merging with Yahoo - but in this case no one is concerned about monopoly.
AutoCAD, Maya, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder, Mudbox and now Softimage has entered the one big family of 3D suites. From now on, you can consider Autodesk the pinnacle in 3D graphics as Adobe is for rich media and graphic tools.
Of course the 3D community was shaken by the news and in a practical manner (as many 3D artists are technical in mind) some where simply wondering where they can seek tech support for the previous versions purchased…
I think this story is something to ponder on - is it even good from a business point of view for Autodesk? Isn’t competition helping the software become more rapidly improved? What’s the competitions now? Cinema 4D, TrueSpace and Blender?
I don’t know, this all seems to extravagant to me. I only hope that Autodesk will not fall into the slippery slope of creating inferior software and thus bursting its bubble into millions of vertices.
