You’re right, I confused it. Lightscape was indeed bought by AD at some time but the proprietary renderer used for Bunny was called CGI Studio. Just found a old magazine from 1999 where it was featured.
According to the article Softimage was used (I guess Soft|3D at that time), together with some solid based modeling tool, not mentioned by name. Sven From: xsi_list@googlegroups.com <xsi_list@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Avid Siman Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 9:42 PM To: xsi_list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #589 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:xsi_list@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2025 12:53 AM To: xsi_list@googlegroups.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/xsi_list/CAA6-QBvKxWDNqrU2okWUisnB%3DmQ%2B55dqbVNaVB66dWf%2B0WfHig%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/000001dbe04d%249eb7f080%24dc27d180%24%40imagefront.de.
