A little unrelated, but I yet have to see a compositor that uses Nuke/Fusion, than he have to switch to After Effects to do the same job and everybody from management in the company survives this alive :D Once you go with nodes (and you will like them), you don't come back. And if you started from node based app, you will…
me2 really like softimage personally, m button means Magic,:3 but 3ds max has some advantage too, material ID, and smoothing group management is huge advantage in 3dsmax. to learn new software I keep hotkey and button customization to minimum or none ( default setting).
My first program, was 3D Studio R4 for DOS (showing my age) My second program I learned was Alias Wavefront Power Animator 7.0 for UNIX on an SGI My third program was 3DS Max (Which I have used professionally since), and worked in a studio that used Maya for 4 years.. What I noticed were, there were MANY people who…
You have to know both Max and Maya if you want to be viable in the games industry. It's just that simple. You don't have to like Max, but I would ix-nay on the atred-hay if you apply at a studio that has invested heavily in a Max-centric pipeline. If a studio has invested many thousands of dollars in a particular…