[Andres]

@MadsL 24394 wrote:

You might want to cut down on the question marks^^
Im sure there will be more to it than the colourwarper and i do agree that it is a overall bad pressrelease just letting this one feature slip out, which allready was post some month ago by mistake, so we kinda allready knew.

You don’t pay 200$ for the color warper.
You pay 200$ for a Compositor, its like buying a new cellphone.. it can do what it have been able to do in the last 15 years, while a little feature here and there sneak in and you pay fully for it. You do want to stay tuned if you are working with this kind of product to get full preformence.

Combustion 4 is outdated and they know, and the fact that they release another version is just a sign that they got a big enough userbase to continue the development of this software. Now from what you can see in the statement, Autodesk are’t trying to push this software to a higher level but rahter just update for the latest hardware / software support (we could always hope for some OFX or so, which i hardly dought and 64bit support wouldnt be bad eighter). Combustion is a strong composition package however not tuned for the industry any more. I know a few houses still uses it but its not something you want to invest in. AE have taken the dominance and within the powerfull CS enviroment i guess there is not much for Combustion to come for.
About Flint replacing Combustion i would disagree. You cannot compare Flint and Combustion. Flint is a industry suit while Combustion is a desktop compositor.
And i guess it is pretty wice for Autodesk not to put too much into the Combustioon project for as mentioned earlier the AE enviroment taking over and the true nodebased compositors taking over in the other end. They can still havest some money and keep a fairly good product alive, and that is what matters in this case.
While Toxic seems like a interesting initiative, a unique production enviroment that if breaking the ice would become a strong compaditor on the colaborative VFX market.

-MadsL

I hope you’re righ… lets see

-kidd

[Andres]

@Enog 24289 wrote:

Your insane:

http://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=452932&id=6909145

Secondly, if your banks website goes down it does not mean its bankrupt.

They could be updating it for Combustion2008.

Haha, I hope your righ… The minute Toxic was announce i noticed the draw-back or delay in another combustion…. Can anyone from AD answer this lol????? LETS GO AUTODESK!!!!!!!!! Combustion 2008 please!…..

[Andres]

I loved it guys, keep it up!…

[Andres]

I go to an Art school that offers a bachelors degree in vfx and motion graphics. I will highly recommend you to not rely on schools when it comes to developing your eye & compositing skills. Pick up a few VFX / Compositing books and read them. These type of schools tend to be more business oriented than anything else, its all about the $$$’s. Also, chose a compositing/vfx package; Shake, After Effects, Combustion, and Commotion ECT. Learn the most you can about that particular software and practice like there’s no tomorrow.

-David”TheKidd”Marte
http://www.davidthekidd.com

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