Only if you're working in a studio. Otherwise you can just pay $1500 ($900 around Christmas) for Modo plus CC subscription. Compared to paying ~$3500 for Maya, $800 for ZBrush, another ~$200 a month to get updates for Maya, and the CC subscription. Of course I think a studio would usually pay for that stuff for you, so...
Just in case people aren't aware, you can still buy a Photoshop license without paying monthly through Adobe's website: http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuite6.html You just have to take a roundabout way through Products > Creative Suite 6 > Photoshop CS6 >…
Its certainly not a cheap line of work IF you choose do to go with the most expensive tools out there, but they are far from being a requirement. To note, being more expensive doesnt necessarily mean better in what kind of assets it can pump out. Modo for example is more than half the price of Maya, yet arguably a far…
you can change the style to something that looks like photoshop ps.: bought cs6 and it will be most likely the last version i purchased if they cling on to their subscription model (and cloud crap)
...which is why I switched to Photoline for image manipulation - it has all those things, and especially the layer blending is much better than Photoshop: in Photoshop you can only set the opacity of a layer from 0% up to 100%. In Photoline from -200% to +200%!!! That means you can double the effect of any layer blend…