“Buy em out, boys!”
Everytime Autodesk corporate buys a smaller player I fondly remember Softimage, Toxik and Stingray. I hope the Montreal team gets their hands in it as well as the Maya and Max teams.
The Wonder Studio demos I saw were impressive, but were just that…demos. And it all gave me lame phone app vibes. Maybe they have wizardry up their sleeves I’m unaware about, but my outsider’s impression of this deal is that it’s Autodesk doing something so they can say they’re doing Gen AI things, and that Wonder Studio will never be heard from again. When they killed Soft etc they killed actual, working products. This? If I was a shareholder, I’d be mad, but that’s about it.
Softimage - what a wonderful piece of software.
Maybe I dreamt this in an early Vegas haze but I think Stephen White told me that action was derived from softimage…
Incredibly, I noticed an app missing from that very long list: Media Cleaner Pro
They (Wonder Dynamics) appear to have a pretty interesting 3d tracking and scene reconstruction tool.
This could be very useful in all kinds of scenarios.
I expect that the reconstruction of IK/FK rigs and generative capabilities could also be exploited in one or two other ways.
Perhaps the heft of Autodesk will help to permit different quantities of training and yield unexpectedly improved results.
Much like the injection of Microsoft resources changed the generative pre-trained transformer monster that we already know and love.
I see you and raise 
“Open the gate…”
Company History - Discreet Logic
Aah… - the appropriately named ‘Vapour’…