Just in case anyone missed it, Shake has gone Universal, and the price has gone from $2999 to $499 – $249 if you’re academic.

In connection with that, they’ve also announced that Shake 4.1 will be the last major release of the product, with a future high-end compositor in the works to replace it. The buzz is that it’ll be something akin to “Motion Pro,” though one would hope that it would retain node-base editing.