for feature film and fx there is no way around maya if you have only max as competitor.
autodesk is pushing hard on maya... you will see it in the comming releases...

no...

to get your cloth model i would start with marvelous designer...
a lot of character modlers are using it... they used it also on the hobbit to do the cloth...
http://www.marvelousdesigner.com/

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i like her... great work... but the eyball is to big... in real world scale they are only 24-25mm and thats nearly the size of the eye socket... and the iris is around 11mm... i would take the measurements of a real girl near you from cheek to cheek... scale the head and the eyes to the right size...

Nox wrote:
NEX is still just a plugin stacked on top, not an integral part of Maya.

not true... big parts are new code... and this is still goin on with the original nex devs...
take a look at the extension....

or meshmixer...

you should report everything...
softimage user are the lasiest bug reporter ever..!

maybe they are posting the issues in a forum or on a mailing list but do not report to autodesk...
if you have no bug number... there is no bug...

do you use this for a realtime preview..?
let the render subdivide the cube...

use a smoothed and spherified cube...

without surface sliding/relax the new retopo tools in maya are useless to me...

all those vegetation and stone placement is done with xGen wich is licenced by autodesk last year i think...
and xGen is a very technical tool... not so easy to handle for a standard artist...

they may have some custom shader but in the core its the same...

digital domain and vray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUaUEKt250

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Looks like flipped uvs...

only maya has native alembic support...

luceric wrote: The time that would be spent on that will be spent instead on the OpenGL Viewports,...

does this mean we get OGS support like max and maya..?