Thats crazy Rick! To the original poster I recommend you learn a bit of mel/max/python scripting alongside once your a comfortable animator. As daunting as that sounds (it was for me) being able to make a script that gets your boring bits over with in a few short clicks is really worth while knowing how.. Seems like…
That's an interesting question. Especially when combined with the other points that were listed by Vig. For example, I am a Maya user. I can animate in Maya. I also can do rigging and skinning in Maya. I'm also in the process of learning some Python. But if I were to try using 3DS MAX right now, I wouldn't know where to…