They chose to show it now because it's, for the first time, somewhat worth showing. Presto isn't that old, Marionette was its predecessor and it's been the main package only a few years ago. Presto is being shown in tandem with Pixar's GPU push and new "openness" trying to drive industry standards aligned with their intenral standards, and because nVIDIA is a partner. I seriously doubt it'll go commercial any time soon, AFAIK the rigging and animation components are incredibly intertwined, and not many people will even conceive working like that. There would also be hardly any return to it most likely, it's a completely different scenario compared to PRMan.
But yeah, you can always hope, weirder things have happened, but I wouldn't stay up at night for this one ;) On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Cristobal Infante <[email protected]> wrote: > It did make me think when I saw the PRESTO demo, why are they showing all > this tech us now after all this years of secrecy? > > Let's not forget they sell RenderMan, and I am sure the've lost a hell of > a lot of business to Solid Angle's Arnold. > > Could this be a strategy to get back in? We can only hope right ;) > > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
