The Foundry purchases Nuke

[Joe Carney]

UK based company 'The Foundry' purchased Nuke from D2 software.
fyi.

[Curran Giddens]

Thanks for posting. Can you provide a link? I am seriously considering buying this software but I havn't tried it out yet. I haven't seen a Mac demo version. Hopefully The Foundry will lower the price. How much is it currently? $5k?

[dewman]

Interesting...thanks for the post!

[Mark L. Pederson]

Next up ....

AUTODESK buys FOUNDRY ...

AUTODESK buys NATURAL MOTION ...

ADOBE buys LUXOLOGY ...

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Next up ....

AUTODESK buys FOUNDRY ...

AUTODESK buys NATURAL MOTION ...

Let's hope not.


ADOBE buys LUXOLOGY ...

I would have to puke. But I really don't see Brad and the guys selling out just yet.

[Joe Carney]

Thanks for posting. Can you provide a link? I am seriously considering buying this software but I havn't tried it out yet. I haven't seen a Mac demo version. Hopefully The Foundry will lower the price. How much is it currently? $5k?

latest news
http://thefoundry.co.uk/

You can also go to http://fxguide.com to read related articles.

sort of a shock since it was announced on Sat.

Joe C.

[wlaroussi]

Hi ,

Autodesk is used to by almost any competitor product :

- colossus bought and became lustre
- 5D cyborg bought and became Toxik
- Alias maya and motion builder (with fbx) keep their names but are now autodesk products
- Discreet Flint , Smoke , Flame , inferno , flame ... are all now autodesk labeled .

Shake , nuke , are serious competitors for the new Flag compositor Toxik . Most of the old and actual workflow pipelines tends to export Maya or other 3D packages files to Shake and Nuke and use Boujou or PFtrack (some others also) for tarcking . If autodesk buys most of that stuff , postproduction houses will look like Maccdonald when it's comes to buy burgers .

Regards . :detective2:

[Petr Dvorak]

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[Joe Carney]

Hi ,

Autodesk is used to by almost any competitor product :

- colossus bought and became lustre
- 5D cyborg bought and became Toxik
- Alias maya and motion builder (with fbx) keep their names but are now autodesk products
- Discreet Flint , Smoke , Flame , inferno , flame ... are all now autodesk labeled .

Shake , nuke , are serious competitors for the new Flag compositor Toxik . Most of the old and actual workflow pipelines tends to export Maya or other 3D packages files to Shake and Nuke and use Boujou or PFtrack (some others also) for tarcking . If autodesk buys most of that stuff , postproduction houses will look like Maccdonald when it's comes to buy burgers .

Regards . :detective2:

Another camera tracking software "SynthEyes" works with the above and many more..and is considerably less expensive than Bijou and PFTrack.

[Emery Wells]

Can we talk about Autodesks website? Ugh! Talk about uninspired and corporate.

[Emery Wells]

Next up ....

AUTODESK buys FOUNDRY ...

AUTODESK buys NATURAL MOTION ...

ADOBE buys LUXOLOGY ...

Adobe buying Luxology would not necessarily be a bad thing. Brad, Allen, and team wouldnt necessarily disappear. It would give them more resources and provide a distribution platform and reach they currently dont have. Adobe needs a 3d solution. It will be interesting to see what this new extended version of PS CS3 will offer in terms of 3d support. They could surprise us with a more robust 3d solution than we are currently imagining though that is admittedly doubtful.

[wlaroussi]

Hi,


Originally posted by Emery :Adobe buying Luxology would not necessarily be a bad thing. Brad, Allen, and team wouldnt necessarily disappear. It would give them more resources and provide a distribution platform and reach they currently dont have. Adobe needs a 3d solution. It will be interesting to see what this new extended version of PS CS3 will offer in terms of 3d support. They could surprise us with a more robust 3d solution than we are currently imagining though that is admittedly doubtful.

That's thrue alias Maya will get a big improvment for it's new 9 version since it's was aquired by autodesk (actually the 8.5 version is less buggy and more productive) . But behind this It's compositing workflow will be tightly linked to autodesk Toxik , while 3dsmax is doing the same with combustion . They improve from one side and guide/orient the market from another .

Regards .

[Mikey likes it]

Adobe buying Luxology would not necessarily be a bad thing. Brad, Allen, and team wouldnt necessarily disappear. It would give them more resources and provide a distribution platform and reach they currently dont have. Adobe needs a 3d solution. It will be interesting to see what this new extended version of PS CS3 will offer in terms of 3d support. They could surprise us with a more robust 3d solution than we are currently imagining though that is admittedly doubtful.

Actually, I was told that a ways back Adobe hired some big guns that left discreet prior to autodesk and were the backbone of 3DS Max and the company prior (kinetics? or something like that). The guy I yapped with alluded to the fact that Adobe (like Apple) felt as though to provide an end to end post solution they needed a 3D app. Apple later commented that they had courted Alias and wanted Maya in the pipeline, but couldn't come to terms. Adobe seems to have just gone to the talent that brought Max to discreet (now part of autodesk).

Shortly after I spoke with this fellow about a year or so ago, adobe announced the 3D capabilities of Acrobat (to visualize and present). He had told me that from what he was hearing that would be the first step prior to a 2007 or 2008 rollout of a 3D app.

This is all rumor mill stuff. But at the same time it would make sense and would help the Production Studio if included down the road.

Adobe's buyouts have been strategic. I was happy to see the serious magic buyout because I have used DVRack at times when it makes sense and loved how easy it made things. Could Adobe buyout a 3D company? Sure, they've got the funds to do so... but from the rumor I was fed... it is being worked on internally.

We'll see what SIGGRAPH '07 or '08 brings. Who knows. I'd love it if they did.

[Lucas Wilson]

Actually, I was told that a ways back Adobe hired some big guns that left discreet prior to autodesk and were the backbone of 3DS Max and the company prior (kinetics? or something like that). ... Adobe seems to have just gone to the talent that brought Max to discreet (now part of autodesk). ... This is all rumor mill stuff. But at the same time it would make sense and would help the Production Studio if included down the road.

Not really rumor mill stuff... true and easy to track. Jim Guerard is the guy you're talking about. Was at Kinetix, then Autodesk, now Adobe. And then when you have a guy like Mike Kanfer as a BizDev Manager, some of the pieces start to fall in place.

Two very smart guys working for a traditionally very smart company.

Corporate chess... always fun to watch and play. :)

Lucas Wilson
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
Los Angeles