Del, a senior developer in the industry who once held important positions in many large game companies such as Naughty Dog, SEGA, and WarnerBros, recently tweeted about the secrets of the Japanese game development industry at that time, saying that an important reason for the sluggishness of the Japanese game industry in the 2010s was actually the discontinuation of development of a certain 3D software, which was the former famous Softimage.
SOFTIMAGE XSI is a three-dimensional animation software launched by AVID (later acquired by AUTO DESK). It is a flagship product launched at the end of 1999 and is mainly used in the fields of film, advertising, architectural performance and game development. Its core technologies include a non-linear animation editing system (optimizing the traditional Keyframe setting process), Mental Ray rendering engine integration and a billion-polygon core architecture, which supports the production of complex special effects such as character animation and particle simulation. It is adopted by top special effects companies such as Industrial Light and Magic.
·It is a pity that SOFTIMAGE officially stopped subsequent development in 2016. Del said without exaggeration that due to this impact, the Japanese gaming industry at that time even suffered an unprecedented fatal blow.
·At present, AUTO DESK's mainstream products include Maya and other 3ds Max, which is still the industry's top choice.
