Saturday afternoon, I finally had time to load the free MAYA program on the computer. I watched about 2 1/2 hours of video tutorials at Lynda.com and read a bit in the book I bought at Barnes and Noble last weekend. When I felt a little more comfortable with navigating the interface and learning a bit more about the buttons I opened up Maya and began to play...I mean work with the program. It is amazing! Wayyyy more buttons than Poser and a great deal more useful. By 2am I had created a bowl from a cv curve and 3 eggs that I hope in the future I can make hop in the bowl. Animation is the last bit of the video lecture and in the book as well. The render engine is super fast. The quality of the pic is fantastic. They really mean photo realistic! I may have to put Maya unlimited on my Christmas list....student pricing, of course. Maybe I will have more time to play...I mean work with Maya this week. I am not sure why the pic of the bowl loaded twice.
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