YouTube: The Complicated Story of Softimage

[Nolan]

The Complicated Story of Softimage

YouTuber InspirationTuts posts a video about the history of XSI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYkSyNVTYj0

[owei]

Thanks for the tip!!

Will watch it

Cheers,
oliver

[gaboraa]

Thanks, added it to my watch list too.

[Hirazi Blue]

Meh, nice try and thus commendable, but not really worth it in the end, I'm afraid...
Tragically a good documentary about the rise and fall of Softimage is still missing...

[luceric]

Second doc on Softimage on youtube where they say Softimage was "passed to various owners around like a hot potatoe", imho an exaggeration, given that Avid owned it for 10 years.
but this one is pretty well-made.

[luceric]

I enjoyed sharing links to that Softimage video. Although it has no reference to Softimage, here is in exchange another cool video I found, about the history SGI
"Flame" is technically Softimage's cousin (founders of Discreet were Softimage co-founders, and both were in Montreal)

[scottynic3]

Useful Information

[bvmadjen]

there's an earlier video:

rumor had it that Avid was going to sell Softimage to Dassault Systeme (the aerospace company that also owned CATIA and Solidworks), and that a deal had all but been completed, and that some people from Autodesk had somehow bribed the shareholders of Avid to sell to them, instead...

it's just a rumor.

what isn't a rumor, is Autodesk's purchase of Softimage being illegal, given anti-competive practice laws...