#Microsoft buys SoftImage
17-Feb-94 19:39:23
Sb: #84090-#Microsoft buys SoftImage
Fm: krazy images 72724,3111
To: Jim [PolyGone Cafe] 72400,2330
Yes, booming, but limited. I really can't imagine what Microsoft plans
to do with softimage and how softimage origined 3d software could fit
in any multimedia authoring platform. It sounds elitist, but I really
think that 3D animation (and general animation, and art, etc.) is not
for all the monkeys out there. The big game for a company like
Microsoft is Business, not art based packages, not special effects no
3d animation… business people doesn't need a 3d package to create
character animation. There is a "hobby" market, but I don't think
that this could represent too much in Microsoft income. But back to
the business thing, when 3d fits in a presentation. Presentations with
IMPACT! they say. I say ********. Business presentation with impact
are so awful, so style-less, so inneficient, so stupid that I can't
believe that people don't get an eyes disease watching them. They
fill them with horrible clipart, monster colors and now, with 3D
effects such as Pixar Typestry or CorelDRAW! 🙂 Ok, go ahead, let's
put $99.99 3D animation packages in everybody's hands. Soon,
computer screens will start to look as those old pink cadillacs with
airbrushed flamingos, fire in their wheels, cheetah fur in the seats
and some kind of gold crown in the front (and I HAVE SEEN ONE of
those 🙂 Computer art, pop(ular) art to the max!
But what I'm saying! You don't have to wait for 3d programs! Just have
a look to those desktop windoze programs… yes!
Iconize-it-all-with-violets-frames or Divinize-your-desktop or
And-now-for-the-most-awful-gif-and-stupid-font!
Yes, you can guess what will be the topic of the next John Waters
movie. It's pity that Divine is dead… I'm sure he-she would do
awesome animations in 3ds. ILM? Oh, yeah, they are good but don't
know about Pulp!
Back to the Satellite of Love!
ana /krazy images
ps.I hope that you have enjoyed this one, boys and girls.