Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #53223
From: Sean Kennedy <mack_dadd2@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [AE] Autodesk is killing off Softimage XSI & C4D Sale at toolfarm
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:08:13 -0700
To: AE List <ae-list@media-motion.tv>
Blender itself is a great open source compositing tool! 
Although, it's node-based, so it's more like Nuke or Fusion.

Rotoscoping and corner pinning

Keying

Editing and layer based compositing

2D tracking

Sky replacement demo

No Optical Flares, though. :(



> To: AE-List@media-motion.tv
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:25:35 +0100
> From: pyfave@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [AE] Autodesk is killing off Softimage XSI & C4D Sale at toolfarm
>
> that's why blender is so great !
>
> it won't disappear, code is open !
>
> btw , are there good opensource alternatives to after effects ?
>
> 2014-03-11 10:07 GMT+01:00 mylenium@mylenium.de <mylenium@mylenium.de>:
> > That is doubtful. The way I remember it, XSI was meant to replace MAX one
> > day because at the time MAX was really in shambles and seemed to have
> > unresolvable issues that didn't allow it to evolve as would have been
> > necessary. As it turned out, AD turned the tide and changed their plans.
> > Anyway, there have long been rumours that they were heavily reworking Maya
> > down to the underlying nodal architecture and if you add 1 and 1 together,
> > that may be happening now with not only Naiad/Bifröst, but on a more general
> > level by inheriting some of what ICE was in XSI. In this scenario it would
> > only be logical to let go of one redundant program...
> >
> > Mylenium
> >
> > [Pour Mylène, ange sur terre]
> > -----------------------------------------
> > www.mylenium.de
> >
> >
> > Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> hat am 10. März 2014 um 23:11 geschrieben:
> >
> >> -tho a bit of a shame that Adobe never acquired a 3d app of their own, ya
> >> know?
> >
> > People said that is why AD originally bought SI - to keep it from Adobe.
>
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