Raff is spot on, the return on investment is just not there. Very small user base and prolific use of pirated software makes 3rd party development completely unsustainable.
However, I have been thinking that crowd funding model could work reasonable well in this case. Morpheus <http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cgmonks/morpheus-rig-v20?ref=live>had a successful Kickstarter a while back so I wouldn't be surprised if someone will try this with a plugin of some sort eventually. Although, Kickstarter hasn't been keen on accepting software projects. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Raffaele Fragapane > <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > It's not like the prices are geared towards industry giants anyway. > > Software's never been cheaper. Besides, it's not the individuals, or the > > very large that need to take action, it's the middle, between 5 and 30 > seats > > where all the 3rd party money is. > > that might not be a lot of places.. softimage users are generally > either in big studios (50-500) or single-seat freelancers. > -- Technical Director @ DreamWorks Animation
