3ds Max vs. Blender: Revealing results of a CG software user survey
It’s clear from the pie chart that 3ds Max is the giant in the market here, with Maya (also an Autodesk product) the next big player. If you scroll down the article, what really stands out is that both of these packages consistently rank the lowest in user satisfaction.
I was surprised to see that Lightwave has such a small share. I’ve always had a soft spot for it, but perhaps in recent years the situation has changed. I stopped doing 3D work around the same time that Modo came out, and I was aware that many were switching loyalties then.
The Cinema and Houdini get big positives, but I’m especially pleased to see the open-source Blender rank so highly in most responses. I’m hoping to get back into CG graphics soon, and I’d love to invest my energies in free software.
Open source, open world
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Lettercase: The League of Movable Type’s social font manager
We want to change the perception of open source typography, and to do it, we’re doing some landscaping ourselves. […] We’re paying a lot of attention to Github, and in a broad sense, you can imagine Lettercase being a similar tool. Private & public projects, either for something you don’t want to share or for something open source; collaborators, working together on shared projects; forking, or duplicating existing projects, that both pay respects to the original creator & allow you to mess with it & make something new. These are important ideas that helped propel the crazy success of open source software, and we don’t see any reason typography can’t benefit from the same.
