First rule of Maya: forget ergonomics, the engine is powerful but the cockpit is a giant birds nest constructed from thousands of tiny birds nests.
Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Alastair Hearsum<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 19/03/2014 7:33 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: A confession 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 -- Alastair Hearsum Head of 3d [GLASSWORKS] 33/34 Great Pulteney Street London W1F 9NP +44 (0)20 7434 1182 glassworks.co.uk<http://www.glassworks.co.uk/> Glassworks Terms and Conditions of Sale can be found at glassworks.co.uk (Company registered in England with number 04759979. Registered office 25 Harley Street, London, W1G 9BR. VAT registration number: 867290000) Please consider the environment before you print this email. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and attachments are strictly privileged, private and confidential and are intended solely for the stated recipient(s). Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Company. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If this transmission is received in error please kindly return it to the sender and delete this message from your system.
