You're not alone
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Alastair Hearsum <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > > >
