As a avid technical explorer and digital artist I find myself constantly in a sea of upgrades floating by me as I swim my way through life. Everyone loves upgrades, but at what costs?
The good Dr.Roe recently shared his woes and concerns regarding Apple's latest OS: Blow Leopard. But I don't really have much of a beef with Apple this time, unlike the doctor. My problem lies with a little company called Autodesk. You may have heard of them. They originally shared the field of AutoCAD software and decided to buy every major 3D software they could, including the rivals Maya and 3D Max. Now they are pretty much one company to rule them all, charging insanely high dollar amounts for their software. As to every Maya users excitement, Maya 2010 is not only going to sport Autodesk's latest and greatest 3D package but it's flagship Toxik (video compositing) and Matchmover (3D matchmoving) are now bundled with the software. Both Toxik and Matchmover have been excluded as stand alone products. Best of all, it features x64bit builds for Windows Vista/7 and Mac OSX. Unfortunately, despite the fact that Apple has a developers program that allows for development of new software before the launch of an OS did not seem to catch the eye of Autodesk.
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Maya 2010 is not qualified on Snow leopard as of this release Please do not update your OS as we don’t grantee how Maya will behave We are currently investigating this matter, and as soon as we have an update we will post it on our official site and here as well
Also the SIGGRAPH deadline was coming up, which Autodesk seems is more important to have the next bundle of software out by that month then supporting an operating system that comes out around the same time. (48,044)
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