I am worried autodesk will buy Carrara

AFAIK they only buy profesional things..
And if they ever had intrest they buy whole DAZ ..on a lazy afternoon..

Hahaha... but isnt difficult that this can happen. Autodesk is aimed to Pro market, maybe with Carrara they can get the beginers level market... you begin with Carrara and end with Maya or SXI now.

Quote - I am worried autodesk will buy Carrara

Why?  If Autodesk bought each of its employees a Carrara license and forced them to use it, we might see some nice tutorials and content (maybe even plugins) coming from them.  And DAZ would get money to support Carrara better.

And we can get more developers in Carrara...

I think their next victim will be lightwave and they will not bother with maxon, cause maxon is Europe base.

No joking this time.  I think Vue will be the next victim.

Autodesk just bought Softimage. I understand this is a professional package, but I have never seen it anywhere.

One big example from old tmes from Softimage is Jumanji... but theres a lot of others movie that it was used, tv shows and other things... just take a look at the site.
The most strange thing is that I saw a topic at CGChannel about people leaving Maya to work with XSI... now they are brothers anyway!

Before Maya came out Softimage was the be all end all of commercial 3D apps.  Back then Electric Image, Lightwave and Houdini were the only other commercial apps that really mattered.  Then Maya and 3DS MAX came in and shook things up.  MAXXON C4D slowly climbed into a strong position as well.

Anyway, Autodesk is gaining a pretty monopolistic advantage in the high-end 3D world but there is so much competition at the consumer level I'm not too worried about it. Aside from the many consumer level commercial apps there is also an ever growing cadre of open source 3D apps to choose from.  As for them buying Carrara, or more likely DAZ, I don't think it would be a very good fit for them from a corporate culture perspective.  They would probably go after Vue or something similar that would be easy for them to digest into their their parent company. But I understand your concern. Autodesk does not have a very good reputation for making the software they buy better.  They seem to be buying up their competition for the purpose of stopping development so they can use the existing software as a chash machine.

My friend made mud box and they were bought over by autodesk. So anything is possible, and that was  3 man company too.

Well, your friend invited people into the beta that were too good and their results caught Autodesk's attention before Mudbox had enough of a loyal customer base.  Autodesk got that app for cheap.

Oh, do you know how much?

I might have that 3D World Mag somewhere.

Will you people stop talking about Carrara as a beginner software!? I'm getting to know Carrara now and I'm proud of it. Everytime someone mention Carrara as a beginner software I get a big lump in my throat and my lip start to shiver. It's like when you get your drivers licence and get your first car, and someone says "Well, the day you buy a REAL car you should think about getting a better insurance".

I loved my first car. Well, I had to fill up oil every third mile or so, and the wipers never really worked. Plus it always refused to start whenever I was supposed to pick up my girlfriend. But it was mine, and I loved it! I consider Carrara mine too, and I love it! I get the feeling Carrara loves me back too. So what's so beginnerish with Carrara anyway?

(I'm only just about half serious with this post)

revenous you make my heart bleed with this post. I feel your pain.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7UWImpG54

A liitle crude BUT keep the tissue box handy to stem the tears of laughter!

Brian

That is way too funny, thanks Brian.

LOL...ROFL... ROFLMAO...

What's wrong with Carrara being "beginner" software?

And by "beginner" I mean it has to satisfy these two conditions:

1. Affordable.
2. Easy to use.

Now if someone were to add $1000 to the price or screw up the UI by re-arranging it and trying to put in and implement everything in a half bass-ackwards way... Then it could be considered "professional" software.

Examples of "professional": - Photoshop: Actually easy enough to use in an intuitive manner w/o reading books or whatever, but way too damn expensive for the average beginner. (So beginners end up with out of date versions, the gutted Elements version, settle for standbys such as PSP or Gimp, or acquire it through "friends".)

• Blender: Actually free. However the UI is likely to be confusing even when compared to Lighwave, Maya, or 3DS Max. If you actually can figure it out, it can do powerful stuff. But the UI just isn't really intuitive for most users, and will require much reading and hours of review of websites or .pdfs for just figuring out the simplest functions.

Do we really want Carrara to become "professional"?

I also bet on Vue. Their ecco-system and atmosphere is just what's missing and with xStream they already have a first step of integration.

Carrara went the route of Daz content and that's of no value for autodesk.

Didn't Mudbox get bought out by Autodesk before version 2 had many sales?  They snatched it up before anyone else did.  But E-On is just asking for a buy-out with their Vue 7 dangling in front of Autodesk.

Quote - And we can get more developers in Carrara...

I was joking there.