Isaac at Outside-Hollywood has a good piece up about what Lightwave means in today’s Visual FX market, now that Autodesk owns all their competitors.

A few months ago, monolithic software giant Autodesk finalized the purchase of Softimage XSI and pretty much all of its assets. This is big news in the CGI world because Autodesk now owns three of the Big Four animation packages – Maya, Max, and XSI. Only Lightwave 3D stands alone as an independently-developed, all-around effects and animation solution.

NewTek, makers of Lightwave, have a major announcement scheduled for next week regarding Lightwave3D’s future.

via The Future of Lightwave 3D – Outside Hollywood.