I'm pretty sure most of us are happy with Nuke, it would be nice if the next owner exhibited some shared passion or vision of the product and a willingness to further it's betterment. instead of begrudgingly stretching out and rationing feature quotas secure in the knowledge that there is no longer (oups..!) i mean no comparable alternative for people to defect to. :P
On 18 December 2014 at 23:37, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote: > > More context for clarity: "worthless".. to build a new "greatest > compositing" app. > On Dec 18, 2014 6:01 PM, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I see what you did there, but that quote was about the 14-bit >> compositing code that was last developed in 1996, which I used 5 years >> later. >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Andi Farhall <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > "Personally I think all of this old source code base is now worthless." >> > >> > I would agree, and I would include Maya. >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: [email protected] >> > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:22:00 +0100 >> > Subject: Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry! >> > To: [email protected] >> > >> > >> > " I think people just want the existing, production-proven ones they are >> > used to," >> > >> > Well this goes also for Softimage for a lot of artist out there but >> doesn't >> > meant a thing later when it was chopped down >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected] >> > >> > wrote: >> > >> > Does anybody want a new compositor? I don't think they do. I think >> people >> > just want the existing, production-proven ones they are used to, >> cheaper. >> > What people have in their hands is pretty great already. >> > >> > btw autodesk doesn't own eddie/illusion/matador/ER, just the source >> code of >> > the fxtree, which doesn't really have any eddie in it and not that much >> of >> > the other ones. Personally I think all of this old source code base is >> now >> > worthless. >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Paul Griswold >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Doesn't ADSK own Toxik, Composite, Smoke, Flame, FX Tree (Eddie, Media >> > Illusion, Matador), as well as Elastic Reality (inside the FX Tree)? >> On top >> > of that they have a fantastic vector paint program called Sketchbook >> > Designer (not Sketchbook Pro, though that's pretty spiffy too). >> > >> > It seems like they already own enough technology to create the greatest >> > compositor the world has ever seen. I wonder what the problem is? >> > Leadership? Nah.... >> > >> > -PG >> > >> >
