[Sidefx-houdini-list] Autodesk bought Softimage

[François Duchesneau]

As long as SESI will stay independent and a private company, I'm not 
worried. Every day, Houdini shows me different ways to do things that 
would be a lot harder to do with either XSI or Maya.

Even if XSI is going toward something that looks like Houdini, it's 
still many years behind.

Houdini is designed with a "user needs" point of view whereas the other 
looks to me now as a shareholder profit pov. That will always make a 
difference in the end and many people appreciate that.

François

P.S.: Hey SESI, if Autodesk knocks at your door to propose something, 
please tell them you prefer to sell the company to the Houdini 
community. I'd better put my money in a company I believe instead of 
crazy volatile stock shares ;)



Ihab Abdel Razek wrote:
> Now the thought that sends shivers up my spine..... Will Houdini be  
> next?
>
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:53 AM, "Pablo Giménez" <pablogipi at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hopefully the God of 3D will hear you Peter ....
>>
>> 2008/10/24 Peter Bowmar <pbowmar at gmail.com>
>>
>>     
>>> Well I remember lots of speculation when Autodesk bought Maya (end of
>>> Houdini!) and then Autodesk bought 3DS (end of Houdini!) and now XSI,
>>> yet Houdini is still here and the user base is growing!
>>>
>>> Remember that Soft had problems getting XSI out to market and handed
>>> the whole market to Alias (at the time) and that could well happen
>>> here if their next-gen app takes forever to come out.
>>>
>>> Personally, to me, it means very little other than some sadness for
>>> the Softimage employees that will be laid off, not the programmers,
>>> but lots of others.
>>>
>>> A lot of FX companies are afraid of behemoth monopolies and I bet  
>>> will
>>> invest in Houdini (since there is nothing else!) as safety as well.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter B
>>>
>>> 2008/10/23 Pablo Giménez <pablogipi at gmail.com>:
>>>       
>>>> Sad but truth.
>>>> I think that the thing that autodesk is going to sell is a complete
>>>>         
>>> pipeline
>>>       
>>>> of tools that work well together and then say to studios ok you  
>>>> can save
>>>> money because is easy to find artists for our tools we own the whole
>>>> pipeline so our tools talk together perfectly.
>>>> So I think that SESI will ensure for the future a perfecto  
>>>> connectivity
>>>>         
>>> with
>>>       
>>>> Autodesk tools and then learn to coexist cos the 3D big brother is  
>>>> there
>>>>         
>>> and
>>>       
>>>> you can't beat him but you can try to live with him.
>>>> Anyway for Houdini is a challenge because now you have to justify  
>>>> the
>>>> investement in the tool with more arguments:
>>>> - How are you going to deal with the interconectivity (that means  
>>>> that
>>>>         
>>> the
>>>       
>>>> support for FBX should be as good as possible for example to be  
>>>> able to
>>>> coexist)
>>>> - How are you gong to growth you user base? Now autodesk owns al the
>>>>         
>>> tools
>>>       
>>>> that 99% of the schools/universities taugh, definitely a challenge  
>>>> for
>>>>         
>>> the
>>>       
>>>> future.
>>>>
>>>> Long life houdiniks .....
>>>>
>>>> 2008/10/23 James Rutherford <JRutherford at stclaircollege.ca>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Yikes
>>>>> I wonder if this is good or bad for Houdini...
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>>>> Best Regards
>>>> Pablo Giménez
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>> Un saludo
>> Best Regards
>> Pablo Giménez
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