But it will provide a new revenue stream and will be welcomed by many. Some people will still pirate, some people will still try to get round the student rules that is life. Many who would pirate or use a student version unofficially will now buy Indie. The Indie offering on Maya and Max, and the tightening of rules around student licences all makes sense to me. Those licence payers simply don’t blink at the price per seat. Maya is embedded for many many years to come in blockbuster movie pipelines. I don’t think Autodesk are committing suicide.
For true murder, and the loss of another fantastic 3D disruptor tech that Adesk unforgivably murdered(a slow, painful death through neglect), I would reserve my grief for Mudbox. So, even though I despise Adesk’s corporate bullsh*t and the ruthlessness that goes along with it, Xsi wasn’t murdered quite the way people think it was. The sole reason they purchased Xsi was for tech scavenge(even CAT in Max came from Avid)
Its development was unsustainable and Avid knew the writing was on the wall, and when they sold Xsi the company shut down and Adesk were simply there to mop it up and pick the bones for tech(with ICE finally being utilised as Adesk currently push heavy development of Bifrost for Max/Maya)Īdesk were never going to focus on Xsi, Maya was the up and coming entertainment DCC that they were going to champion and was a lot more popular than Xsi. When they purchased it, Xsi had dwindling seat numbers and never really took off. I am fairly familiar with it, but it always feels like there are a million buttons to have to tentatively press just to ensure it doesn’t explode at any second when doing certain simple 3D procedures.Īs for Xsi, yes, it was a big loss when Adesk purchased it, but honestly it was on the way out, regardless. Never been a big Maya fan myself, but I’ll admit I still use it for Arnold(Arnold in Max is still like a beta and not as properly integrated as in Maya), and from time to time I use Maya for Xgen. And then Autodesk bought and murdered it. I did like XSI, it was ahead of its time in multiple areas. I think the UI and workflow are a bit awkward, with some archaic UX bits.
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