[mikhael]

Well I'll be damned.

According to Gamasutra.com, Alias|Wavefront just picked up an Oscar for Maya. Usually, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just gives away a plaque for stuff like this. The last thing that got an actual Oscar was the Imax projector.

They also gave a plaque to the scientists and mathematicians who put together the MentalRay renderer.

The story is over on Gamasutra.com if you've got an account.

[Stunaep]

if they give Andy Serkins the best supportive actor Oscar, then I will run around the streets wearing a thong, screaming "mmmmyyy prresssciousss"

[CP5670]

sorry if this is a stupid question, but what's an oscar?

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by CP5670
sorry if this is a stupid question, but what's an oscar?

Oscar, also know as the golden statue, the Academy Award, the thing given each year, and the thing that the whiney-cryei Titanic got 13 of.

[wEvil]

Originally posted by mikhael
Well I'll be damned.

According to Gamasutra.com, Alias|Wavefront just picked up an Oscar for Maya. Usually, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just gives away a plaque for stuff like this. The last thing that got an actual Oscar was the Imax projector.

They also gave a plaque to the scientists and mathematicians who put together the MentalRay renderer.

The story is over on Gamasutra.com if you've got an account.

I can understand mental ray where some actual research was done but Maya?! - which out of the box and without a small army of technical directors coding MEL scripts 24/7 is the stringiest, nastiest and general pig of a peice of software i've ever had the misfortune to use.  Its worse than lightwave

[Nobilis Draco]

hey! LW won best out of the box program in 3Dworld.

[Ace]

Originally posted by wEvil


I can understand mental ray where some actual research was done but Maya?! - which out of the box and without a small army of technical directors coding MEL scripts 24/7 is the stringiest, nastiest and general pig of a peice of software i've ever had the misfortune to use.  Its worse than lightwave

lol, *hides in fear from Orbis and his threats of Maya conversion* (inside joke)

[wEvil]

Originally posted by Nobilis Draco
hey! LW won best out of the box program in 3Dworld.

Just shows you how much the judges knew then, lol.

[Stryke 9]

Titanic. A Beautiful Mind. Moulin Rouge. And Maya. Innit funny how the Oscars always go to the movies, etc. for the year that [SIZE=34]SUCKED[/SIZE]?


Just an observation.

[IceFire]

I like Maya

So do the professionals.  SW, LOTR, (the other LOTR as well), Spiderman, on and on and on.

[wEvil]

Originally posted by IceFire
I like Maya

So do the professionals.  SW, LOTR, (the other LOTR as well), Spiderman, on and on and on.

the "pros" also like houdini, softimage and their own in-house tools but you dont hear about them because A|W's license agreements required you tell everyone you only used their software .

[Stryke 9]

Some pros use TrueSpace, too. Doesn't mean I'd use it for anything other than a frisbee.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by IceFire
So do the professionals.  SW, LOTR...

Yay, I get to visit the Render Wall over at Weta Digital (the company who did all the digital effects for the LOTR trilogy) next year.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by wEvil

the "pros" also like houdini, softimage and their own in-house tools but you dont hear about them because A|W's license agreements required you tell everyone you only used their software .

Can you show me that license requirement? It doesn't seem to apply to SquareSoft (who advertised freely that they use Maya for high poly, Lightwave for low poly and XSI for some prerender stuff).

Or is this more of your generic pointless pro-XSI/anti-everything else drivel, wEvil?

Oh, and Stryke: you're confusing your opinions for fact again. Some of us liked Moulin Rouge, A Beautiful Mind and respect Maya (though we don't use it). Seriously movie Oscars are meaningless, but the stuff that never gets televised (like the one Maya got) are generally pretty well reasoned (in my opinion). Not as much political bull**** tied up there.

[wEvil]

Well, there's of stuff been done in maya but these days its getting superceded and the way its' put together it starting to make it look a little long in the tooth.

and well...thanks for calling my opinion drivel - i really appreciate it that you value what I say...thanks.

[Stryke 9]

Someone had to pick up where Zylon left off.

[Nico]

Originally posted by StrykeIX
Some pros use TrueSpace, too.

find me a single movie or video game that used that ( I don't talk about random freelance artist, they could use MSpaint as far as I know, if they like )

[Nico]

Originally posted by Setekh


Yay, I get to visit the Render Wall over at Weta Digital (the company who did all the digital effects for the LOTR trilogy) next year.

Meh, I've always admired WETA since I first saw the Frighteners, you couldn't believe how happy I've been when I knew they would handle most of the LOTR CGI and gear

[Carl]

most of those movies listed use maya and lightwave in conjunction. usually though they use lightwave more.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by wEvil
and well...thanks for calling my opinion drivel - i really appreciate it that you value what I say...thanks.

I value your opinions. The XSI-religion you seem to have subscribed to, however, doesn't seem to allow you a rational opinion on other 3d products. Thus, like most religious things, I term it drivel.

Now, if you care to discuss it in a rational way, hey, that's not drivel.