Hey guys, this past Christmas my cousin picked me up a gnomon workshop dvd for character modeling. I'm super grateful and can't wait to start in on it in the next day or so. There is one problem though; The instructor on the dvd uses Maya. I use Max, but have seen this first hand: the amount of maya tutorials outnumber the…
Actually I'm planning on starting on Learning Zbrush before going back to university at the end of the month. Any tutorials you recommend? @ahtiandr: Thanks for your input and insight! Learning anatomy is one of my highest priorities. @passerby: That's a sexy cube.
3ds Max has been the most used 3d application in game studios for a while, but it's not uncommon to see studios using other applications. Maya tends to be more popular in other 3d industries. If you are just learning how to model, it will be very confusing how to apply Maya tools and interface to working in 3ds Max, but if…
I used XSI before and it seems like Autodesk is transferring (stealing) some functionality from Softimage and putting it into Maya; basically the entire new "modeling toolkit" is part of what XSI had for years. I am supercomfortable with Maya, because it behaves almost like XSI and modeling is very fast. Whenever I watch a…