Same boat here, but I'm lazy and I've subscribed to digitaltutors in order to start from scratch and learn some tips and tricks in order to be more productive.
Honestly, since I never looked into Maya that much ( except for some Apex clothing stuff ) but I appreciate some of the feature related to game development and I'm curious to see how my workflow will change, hopefully ( praying mostly ) that it wont be so underwhelming then Softimage 2014-03-19 10:52 GMT+01:00 Stefano Jannuzzo <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> >>
