Shake: the first accelerated graphics compositing software; Fuck the Apple Shake travesty, the PC & Linux versions rocked. Cool factor 12: your compositing node "scripts" were C disguised by macros, and gcc would hot compile them into so/dlls and hot link them in. Meeting the developer of this software was a major inspiration to my software to follow.
I almost added this comment, I wasn’t expecting anyone else to say it. Shake was so awesome before Apple killed it. I clung to my old working copy for many many years, until it wouldn’t run anymore.
I never ever understood what the plan for Shake was supposed to be, did you? I remember hearing rumors it would turn into something bigger and better in a different Apple product, but it doensn’t seem like anything ever materialized.
