Re: Great news about Toxik

One reason I can see sticking with the Autodesk line would be that Toxic is in the same family of programs, so you should be fairly familiar with the UI and workflow. I watched all the videos about it, and I have to admit it looks very nice. But I don't see paint and titles, or any integrated 3rd party plugins (particles, Flex) not to mention support for AE plugins. Even without those options, Toxic seems geared too much toward a collaborative workflow, which I have no need for. I am a one man shop, and usually am either handed footage or generate my own from MAX or C*. On top of that, I had hoped for more muscle in Toxic, but in the videos I watched I didn't see much more interativity/rendering/caching than I can do now in c* (could be because they were capturing video at the same time).

C* is such a great application and I have been using it from the beginning. If the next version only cut rendering times in half, I would be a very happy camper and could probably get several more years out of it..

-Matthew