Disney had a hand in funding Maya's development, so i guess that is one link
On 28 February 2014 14:01, Ed Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> I'm on a project which has been under development for nearly 9 years >> and is expected to be on the market as an iterated product for several >> years. We cannot switch so easily. Even if we rewrote our tools and had >> them up and running today to accommodate a different 3D product, we still >> have 9 years of backlog to support to the end of this project's days - >> that's a lot of content. ... The ability to exhume and modify that data, if >> necessary, could be a real problem down the line as operating systems, >> graphics APIs and other infrastructures continue to evolve. >> >> Matt >> > > Hey Matt -- > > Out of genuine curiosity -- can your employers not get a source code > license out of AD? IIR, deals like that were not unknown among the larger > studios -- or was that all pre-acquisition? > > Ed >
