Lest see... XSI I'm guess isn't even on the charts anymore. Modo has been picking up popularity With all the indie devs on a tight budget these days, I wouldn't be surprised if Blender has picked up popularity and I'm pretty sure that more people are starting out with Maya these days than 3DS Max. So I'm guessing it's…
o_O has nothing to do with being conservative, most studios we worked with allow their artists to do there models in whatever app they prefer, however the whole pipeline orbits around one tool, exporters, animation system, tangentbase for normalmaps whatever. And those tools are still the ones they have their proven…