Folks
Here is a confession. I've never used Maya! Not really. I've had a
little poke every now and again but no more than make a sphere and spin
round it.
Now, the lack of Maya knowledge may diminish the value of my comments in
some eyes but I think that , on the contrary, it puts me in quite a good
position to appraise the software at a certain level. Here is an example
of the trouble I'm having that may bring a smile to people's faces. But
first just a couple of more sentences before I reveal my difficulty. I
like to bill myself as the sensitive artist/animator who is technically
all fingers and thumbs, like the woman by the side of her broken down
car waiting on a big strong man to help her out. The truth is that its
not true. I do have a degree in Fine Art but I also studied maths and
physics at university and programmed extensively in Lisp in my first
job. So I'm not stupid BUT:
*I'm on my third night trying to adjust the resolution of a sphere after
I have applied n-cloth to it!*
Isn't that incredible? Its one example plucked from many experienced by
people I work with who can and have used Maya. Its symptomatic of the
all encompassing interface workflow issues that Maya has that I think
are really fundamental problems and more important in some ways than
headline large features. Admittedly I had had a couple of glasses of
wine by that point and it was a casual , before bedtime attempt to try
something out but I had already twice asked my colleague at work to
explain what the procedure was and I followed what he was doing at the time.
So there you have it. Is it me.........?
Alastair
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Alastair Hearsum
Head of 3d
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