I am definitely not sure what their motivation was but instead of investing in it they gave up on it.
-----Original Message----- From: "Steven Caron" <[email protected]> Sent: 4/19/2016 3:21 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle Not sure I follow... AD bought Mudbox to lure Softimage users over to Maya or Max? On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Phil Harbath <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, they kind of did that with mudbox, sure you could use it with any > program, however they made it more convenient with max and Maya. > ------------------------------ > From: Steven Caron <[email protected]> > Sent: 4/19/2016 3:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Autodesk acquires Solid Angle > > I see what you are pointing out but again this is apples and oranges and > that quote misses context :) > > Softimage != Arnold, full animation package with an API vs a rendering > engine that IS an API... In Softimage's case AD is/was trying to convince > us to switch to a competing product, in this case they are trying to sell a > C4D user Maya through restricting their access to a rendering engine? > > >
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