It was Blue Sky's proprietary renderer. Forgot the name of it. The thing I remember most is shortly after Bunny was released, Blue Sky announced they were ditching Softimage and converting their pipeline to Maya. It was the watershed moment that started the industry movement away from Softimage to Maya largely because 'Sumatra' had been hyped for 3 years at that point, but with nothing to show for it. Other studios followed suit soon after forcing Softimage to show their cards at the next Siggraph...which didn't go well.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM 'Sven Constable' via Softimage Mailing List <xsi_list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > It’s slightly implying that mental ray could have been used. But it > wasn’t. I don’t remember what is was, Lightscape? > > One of the first extensively used GI renderers IIRC. The tech was bought > by autodesk. To bury it soon after. > > > > Sven > > > > *From:* xsi_list@googlegroups.com <xsi_list@googlegroups.com> *On Behalf > Of *Stephen Blair > *Sent:* Saturday, June 7, 2025 12:53 AM > *To:* xsi_list@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Friday Flashback #589 > > > > Act now and go mental? > > https://xsisupport.com/2025/06/06/friday-flashback-589/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Softimage Mailing List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to xsi_list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/xsi_list/CANi5zxnsEdojfea02rj-1CZjWwqWRJTfvm-gDC1%3DWHnbkKG_Xg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/xsi_list/CANi5zxnsEdojfea02rj-1CZjWwqWRJTfvm-gDC1%3DWHnbkKG_Xg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Softimage Mailing List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to xsi_list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/xsi_list/000501dbda2c%242416c5d0%246c445170%24%40imagefront.de > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/xsi_list/000501dbda2c%242416c5d0%246c445170%24%40imagefront.de?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Softimage Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to xsi_list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/xsi_list/CAA6-QBvKxWDNqrU2okWUisnB%3DmQ%2B55dqbVNaVB66dWf%2B0WfHig%40mail.gmail.com.
