These are not compatible in any way, shape or form. For example, Adobe’s internal scripting platform revolves around JavaScript, while The Foundry’s is centered around Python. The real challenge is immediately obvious: integrating these is not going to be a piece of cake. I am cautiously optimistic.īoth companies have their own mature line-up of products that are mostly self-sufficient.
Depending on how this (potential) marriage is handled, it can be a beginning of something great, or a potential disaster to some. Personally I would not mind having an additional set of icons added to my Creative Cloud license.
From Adobe’s perspective though, acquiring The Foundry is a perfect opportunity to fill in the areas, which have always been their weak points – true 3D (Modo, Mari, Katana) and high-end compositing (Nuke). Were it not for the venture capital (The Carlyle Group in this case) that simply wants to profit from their investment, there would hardly be any interest for The Foundry in mingling with Adobe. Perhaps the dismay of some The Foundry users comes from the fact, that The Foundry does not really need anything from Adobe to supplement their great products in the niche that they positioned themselves at. Adobe delivers tools for everyone, while The Foundry has been traditionally associated with high-end workflows for larger visual effects studios. If you are familiar with the profiles of these two companies, the initial wariness is understandable. Some of the early tweeter world reactions were not very enthusiastic, to say the least: However, this week, first an Adobe employee tweeted The Foundry’s reel, and soon after an article in Telegraph confirmed this possibility, which makes things almost official. When the news first came out that The Foundry is going to be available for sale in 2015, and my friend told me that there were rumours that Adobe might be interested in acquiring it, at first I dismissed it as rather unlikely.
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