ronbrinkmann

People were shocked, SHOCKED, that we weren't willing to use the apple-standard file browser. I had the hardest time explaining to them that users would rather see something like "filename.1-2000#.tif" instead of, you know, 2000 individual filenames...

And in addition to the companies you mention, there was also Pixar, which of course he was also running. He was probably even more pissed that Catmull wasn't willing to dump all of Pixar's Linux machines and use Macs :)

This is correct. The Shake team and the Motion team shared office space but other than maybe some very tiny bits of code-sharing (like the retiming mentioned), the Motion app was built entirely by the guys that came over from Discreet.

(Blatant self-promotion warning)

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Free until you get to a LOT of traffic/users.