Autodesk acquires Alias

This came out of nowhere. Just happily posing Stu for more test poses and BOOM! News arrives that Autodesk is acquiring Alias. That is pretty shocking. Now a lot of people are scrambling around prophesizing the doom of Maya. I admit the future of both 3D Studio Max and Maya look a little unstable now, but if anything is going to change it will probably happen over the next few years and not immediately. Both programs have a huge userbase and a lot of pipelines are based on them so I doubt Autodesk would just shut off revenue streams just like that. Features could be integrated, programs could be merged, new programs could be born, etc. so it's hard to say what will happen, but there is one thing I am sure of...

...it's a good thing that Animation Mentor teaches us the art of animation instead of teaching us the software... ;)