I say learn both:) If you can afford to spend some extra time doing at least some assignments in both apps, that's great! Knowing both will only benefit you! Personally, I'd be against NOT learning maya - whether somebody likes it or not, it is an industry standard (esp. in character animation)... I...

Mark's very recent post from his blog at the Area: Hey All, Sorry for crickets on the blog lately, truth is just dont have much to write about. With Softimage development being moved to Singapore and me moved to a home office in Los Angeles I dont hear a whole lot of news that I can report as strang...

My thoughts exactly, Sil3. While I never considered Modo as my main app, I'm starting now:) It's come a long way and I think it may soon be able to replace pretty much anything as an all-round DCC application. Every release is huge and exciting. For me personally, it's definitely high time I started...

Holy sh!t...

It makes me wanna start learning H.

Oh boy, I do hope it's a mistake... It doesn't even look like a proper Service Pack.

Nice handy little tool. Hopefully it's not the hottest feature of 2014

Thanks for the reply Graham. I think where we are split is on the value of what the XBR pr does. What the XBR webinars and openness demonstrated to Max users was "Hey, don't worry, Max is not going anywhere, we are fully committed to its development, we can't say what the features will be, but...

That's really interesting whats going on in AD right now. When I read about oldies leaving SI team my heart stopped for a sec, but then I thought that maybe it's not the end of the world and hopefully the new guys will pump some fresh blood into SI. I guess time will tell. It would be a pity if SI s...

pluMmet wrote:
...I've been trying to get them to sell me a license of Arnold for over a year

OMG LOL, even today I find it hard to believe that as incredibly ridiculous that sounds, it's true...

I was extremely pleased with the previous one, will check this one out over the weekend:)

Keep up the great work, I hope cmivfx have many more SI tutorials coming

Thanks for info, i bought some tutorials from CMivfx in the past but there are some things i dont like, for example the streaming system is bad to me, i want a local copy because i'm not always connected to internet, also all the tutorials they promote have a ridicolous and small preview, you cant ...

yeah, that looks really really nice! great work Eric!

now only if we had some decent, fume-like volumetric shaders... oh man...