magneto Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/12/15/special-effects-company-foundry-expected-sell-200m If it was cheaper, I would have hoped SESI to buy it for Nuke before Autodesk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra62 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 sadly 200 million pounds may be a bit pricey for SESI. Probably end up being bought by Autodesk. Which is too bad, I like Nuke. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 ya - whenThe Foundry's awards page has business awards proudly shown, what else do you expect. http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/about-us/news-awards/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetu Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Time for the greatest kickstarter of them all? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Perhaps we can get the price down by 'leaking' the number of bugs Nuke has Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Autodesk Nuke, huh ;/ I'd like Autodesk Nuked better 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freaq Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 well shit...and here i was hoping the Foundry would go after autodesk, as they have slowly been giving them a run for their money in the movie space... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I could see Adobe looking hard at that - folding some of Nuke into After Effects (or just killing competition), and getting Mari as a bonus. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willow wafflebeard Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/12/15/special-effects-company-foundry-expected-sell-200m If it was cheaper, I would have hoped SESI to buy it for Nuke before Autodesk. isn't it supposed to be visual effects company, but anyways, its ok if autodesk will continue the development of the softwares, but i doubt it, there only few leader companies(one of them is sesi), that really try and innovate rather than copy/follow the leaders, and autodesk is not one of them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev2 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I could see Adobe looking hard at that - folding some of Nuke into After Effects (or just killing competition), and getting Mari as a bonus. That's interesting. That would suck as I like Nuke and Modo a lot but find Adobe (and Autodesk) generally unbearable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockstad Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Hey, look on the bright side - maybe Blackmagic Design wants another heavyweight compositing application. Personally I'm hoping the answer is none of the above and they just find another group of really rich people who basically let them do what they want as long as everyone gets their money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbarua Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I don't think SideFX (Houdini) need Nuke! Genius people at SideFX are capable of making COPs as awesome as Nuke is. They always came up with strong reply when people doubted their caliber. I remember one really old thread: https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=4221 somebody asked: I've heard that Maya got Hair, Fur, Fluid effects and cloth all build in. Does Houdini also has those modules? And if not, why is the prize of houdini so much higher then maya and will it ever be possible to create these effects ? and somebody replied: As to fur, hair, fluids etc. it's coming. But that isn't why people buy or need Houdini. But great when it arrives then people will stop asking where is it. And they did that. They came up with solvers better than anybody else on planet (specially for fluids). And you know where is Houdini today and what is it capable of. If you are: http://forums.odforce.net/topic/21317-you-know-youre-a-true-houdnik/ then ask your heart what you need the most, better COPs or SideFX Nuke????????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrake0 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 i don't know who will buy the foundry but there also some others that would fit in this area like dassault, siemens. for sesi i hope they will invest much more in to COP's and add also NLE functionality like that you will always have one tool no import export conflicts. that will reduce workflow complexity when you miss a function make it with vex or do it in real 3d and not fake 2.5d with plugins. but for that they will need some developers. a default support of ffmpg and libraw would be relay nice for a start. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 I also prefer COPs over Nuke but I don't think SESI will invest dev time on them. There are major bugs in them that are not fixed so it's highly unlikely they will add new features to compete with Nuke now that they are on sale. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrake0 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I also prefer COPs over Nuke but I don't think SESI will invest dev time on them. There are major bugs in them that are not fixed so it's highly unlikely they will add new features to compete with Nuke now that they are on sale. i know COP's is not in a solid or in a fast state but it would be nice to have a software that can handle most of the media data (images, movie). it doesn't even have to be the best tool. to compete nuke it would be a huge undertaken. my target is more in the indie / small studio area where you are happy when you can solve the project with just 2-4 tools and there you don't need all the functions from nuke by far not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 I agree but without a good keyer, tracker, stabilizer, and not having major bugs fixed, it doesn't even fulfil that IMO. Also judging by how COPs are neglected even from recent developments in other areas where COPs should be updated as well, shows that there is no activity on them. I.e. Wrangle COPs. Since Mark is busy with other things, SESI would need to hire a full-time developer for the task. This is just my impression, so I could be wrong. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I though !Free! Fusion took care of the need of a compositor for 3d stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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