Software used by Studio Ghibli and Futurama will soon be Open Source

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59 pointsnjaremko4 comments

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11322070

This has a much better title, though. When I saw that earlier link, I thought it was about some music library! While this tells me that it's animation software, in use by major commercial players, and not some obscure software no one cares about.

If it were called 'Tunez', then I could see how someone might mistake it for a music library.

But it's called 'Toonz', so I'm guessing the majority of people that see that name immediately associate it with the word 'cartoons'.

EDIT: I'll also add that the title of this submission is not better than the other one because it doesn't even reference the name of the software in the title.

The actual title of the article would be better than this one. "Toonz Software Used by Studio Ghibli and ‘Futurama’ Being Made Free and Open Source" is better than "Software used by Studio Ghibli and Futurama will soon be Open Source"

"...and for a period of time was part of Microsoft’s Softimage arm, which later became Autodesk." Weird phrasing. Softimage was aquired by Microsoft, then later sold to Avid, which then sold it on to Autodesk.

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