so what are you working on now then ?

skittles/mr bear d00d :) hes over in the WIP page under bear? think thats it
ive remodelled him with nurbs :s and now im just skinning :s
u working on anything cool atm?

I am modeling a female figure, a little bit futurisc and fantasy, and I am trying to model a Minotaur ( have the feets allready).

Just getting in to maya and see what the program can do... lost of fun :) I have a 4 week vacation so I have plenty of time to do my stuff

cool :) ul have to post pics as u progress :)
how long have you been learning maya?

I will post a pic soon. Well I worked with max before and that was a long time, Then I got Maya 2.5 i quess or 2.0 whatever... and from then I slowly learned it, not much because I was still comparing it with max and if you are used to max you do not switch quickly between modeling programs, but the last couple of months I got some tutorials (cd) and now learning it seriously.

and now I hardly touch max anymore... :)

yeah im pretty much the same, i used to use max for rigging, but now, i got into maya cos everything ELSE was easier, and rigging just sucks lol
but lightwave was my first program, and i still love it :)

I think I saw lightwave at a friend hoem onetime..., it looked nice, nice layout ! I used XSI for a month, but was not in the mood to lear a compleet new package again so I sticked with maya and max

ah rite :)
which do u feel more comfortable with? max or maya?

well when you worked with max for sometime and the use maya i automatically look for buttons that are in max.... but now.. In maya you can zoom, tumble and move the scene with the alt button and the mouse buttons and I find that very very good, and now I am used to the hotkeys and hotboxes and marking menu's in maya that when I am at a friend home and he uses max I am pushing the space bar and waithing for the hotbox to appear... so you can say that I feel much more comfortable with maya then with max. :)

How about you ? and for how long have you been using maya ?

i started using maya about 6months ago? something like, im not sure tho, but i no that i still suck :(
i started lightwave about 2years ago, gave up for a bit, started max, gave up some more, now im pretty serious about maya :) love it :) tho i wud say lightwave comes close second :)

I heard that lightwave has excellent render capabilities ?

not when i used it :) that was back when it was version 5, the renderer wasnt that gr8, but i wud say back then its still better than mayas one
but yes, the latest version does indeed have gr8 rendering capabilities :)

what other program did you tried also ? and is there a reason that you are a 3d modeler ?

other programs, umm
this is the order of all programs ive tried
lightwave
bryce
poser
max
maya :)

lol
im not a 3d modeller, ask mike, he'll tell you my models suck :)
i get hired for my animating skills, if i was hired for my modelling, i dont think ANY company wud be asked to do any 3d work :D

I once used rhino, that was a long time ago, I wanted to create a unit for a game called Total Annihilation, and then I used Max and then Maya.

So you are good in animation ? what do you animate then, or what have you animated ?