Quote - Err.. Why??? this assumes that they are all competing for the SAME Clients/Customers....clearly they are not.

The end user market for CG/3D is way too divers& subjective for every and user to abandon their workflow in favor
of one do it all program ..even a FREE/open source one.

Blender has a free Fluid Simulator yet yet Nextlimit and Niad are still managing to market and sell theirs at exhorbitant prices.

Blenders FREE Node based post effects compositor is Excellent.

yet Adobe and The Foundry are still selling new versions of After Effects and Nuke respectively each Dev cycle.

Yes. Precisely.

If everyone who was interested in rendering posed figures was also extremely price conscious and gifted with limitless free time, then the free options would likely dominate.

I suspect, however, that a substantial portion of the CG market is made up of people who are already trained in one or several pieces of software, and that, in a commerical environment with tight deadlines and professionals earning more than minimum wage, it's cheaper to pay a couple of thousand dollars for familiar software than to retrain on a new and free version.

I mean, free (or cheap) is great, but if you can't meet your deadline with it, it suddenly becomes very expensive indeed.

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