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Someone please fix 3d software. Autodesk owns 3 of the top 4 3d software programs. They are about to stop developing Softimage. There other two have little innovation and lots of bugs. Their biggest competition Modo is not a complete enough package to be used by major studios. Someone please bring a fresh pair of eyes and create an innovative killer 3d program.

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Okay give me a minute, I'll just hack something together for you. :)

Seriously though, this is a good request, but the graphics market is really difficult to do business in. It takes a ton of development effort to make a full-featured 3d package, and the market of high-end studios is very small. If you create a graphics software company, your best exit opportunity is probably to be bought out by autodesk eventually anyway. Houdini has been gaining some ground recently though, and I think is the best alternative at the moment to the autodesk products.

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