Update Sketchbook, Inc. has announced new pricing for Sketchbook Pro. From now on the desktop editions for Mac and PC will costs $19.99 for a perpetual license. The team have specifically ruled out going to a subscription model. Read more in the FAQ.
Thomas Heermann – the Vice President of Automotive, Concept Design, and XR at Autodesk – has announced on Linkedin that Sketchbook is leaving the Autodesk stable into the stewardship of a new independent company called Sketchbook, Inc.
According to the new company’s blog post, it is “an independent entity, wholly focused on the app, its users, and its future. […] we’ve got a roadmap of updates planned, many of which are based on requests from Sketchbook users. And some new ideas too, which we look forward to sharing soon”. You can read the announcement in full on the new Sketchbook website.
yeah! Everything without Autodesk is good and better!
Now do Mudbox!!
and softimage 🙂
and 3dsMax! Imagine if max could operate as a separate entity.
Before I moved to blender this was my ultimate wish.
But can anything compete with Blender now and is it even worth it, with the speed blender is being updated I have no need for anything else anymore
maz was always in autodesk. Since the dos version…XSI, Maya,Mudbox they bought from different companies. I don’t understand why they stopped developing mudbox, it was great software, at some point standard for texturing.
Not always. Max was bought from Discreet.
Nope – Discreet got bought by Autodesk ( so they got Discreet *Edit, *Paint & *Effect ). AFTER that, 3ds Max got marketed under the Discreet Umbrella, which then was a Autodesk subsitiary.
3ds Max itself ALWAYS was a Autodesk financed effort, even when it still was in early development under the Yost group..
It never left Autodesk and never was outside of Autodesk
Small naming correction:
Discreet products where named using the asterisk AFTER the product name – so
discreet paint* and effect* ( later merged into combustion )
discreet edit*
NO. Autodesk HIRED Kinetix/Discreet to write 3d studio for AUTODESK. It was ALWAYS their property. Dont teach me, im 50 years old and remeber thighs You never saw:P
So what ? I’m 53… ouch..
but of course you are free to stick to your beliefs
BTW: Guess what ? Kinetix was a 100% Autodesk creation too
And as i mentioned already above: Discreet was a completely seperate company, before it was bought by Autodesk. And THEN 3ds Max was shipped under the Discreet label ( but still was Autodesk )
Yes, they HIRED Discreet to work on max. It was always autodesk property. What im talking about, they never BUY 3ds max. They take over maya, XSI, mudbox. Max was alwys theirs. BTW, if those applications were succesful, they would never be sold. And they did’nt even pay so much for them.
BTW, I remember Your nick too, maybe just coincidence:)
@ rrer. SO you remember “thighs” he never saw. Takes me back to the time I was at this club and….
Yeee…mistake. English is my third language. How about You? 😉
The original 3D Studio product was created for the DOS platform by Gary Yost and the Yost Group, and published by Autodesk. Autodesk, since day zero!
Do you have contacts “Softimage XSI” developers? to want to contact and communicate.
Yes please send Mudbox back to Weta!
Its not Weta that made it. It was a company called sky matters.
The company`s name was Exotic Matter.
Wrong, Exotic Matter made Naiad (which also came out of Weta)
Mudbox came from ex-Weta employees and their company named Skymatter.
The only reason they are allowing this is because they don’t care about sketchbook becoming a threat for them in the future, they are not in the 2d sketching business, they care about domination of all 3D things, they got sketchbook from the Alias acquisition, did some things with it, then released for free and the development of the software stopped. I hope, that in order to support development, the new company brings back a paid option, hopefully not super expensive. Also, to keep improving and adding more features without loosing the easy to use /minimal UI/UX that designers love.
Autodesk will never release XSI, if they did that, there’s a chance that the new company will actually do something with it and despite not having any real development in the last 8 year end up beating their precious Maya.
jesus, maya is so UGLY!
I was worst before pixar made it better
I doubt Autodesk really cares about the 3d segment in the Media&Entertainment sector. The AD brainbug really only sees and thinks about he AEC sector, maybe with a little 3ds Max as icing on the AEC cake for vizualisation purposes.
All the public administrative, governmental, infrastructural bodies in infrastructure which can be milked with insane contracts and which have no impetus to save money or look for better solutions. Just a dream that came true for a company like Autodesk
Everything in M&E – products and customers – are irrelevant and dispencable in their eyes
exactly!
AEC is a huge business and they need M&E to show AEC clients: “look we are in hollywood we are COOL! we are cooler than the competitors who are not related to this summer’s blockbuster!”
although they won’t tell AEC clients “how can we get away for decades without innovation in M&E? we acquire everyone around so users won’t have a place/tool to escape to.”
too bad some of the AEC customers are fed up too.