Jeez!!! When I was 14, Star Wars, A New Hope had been out for a year...

Our 3d graphics were something called matte paintings...


You guys are spoiled!! :)

I just started in making architectural watercolors and then moved to architectural renderings on the PC and now Maya


Would you believe - I have NVER seen any 3D animation movies or Walt Disney's ?!!

no starwars/shrek/toy story yet

Nir:p :p :p

Shrek - - - two minutes after I saw it, I was looking on the net informations about 3d programs

damn!!! shrek was a totally inspring movie... shrek was the movie that kept me from moving away from 3d

For me I always wanted to make movies... Do models, matte painting, pirotech stuff, muppeteer (Inspired from Star Wars)... sigh... Then when I was in like sixth grade I was playing X-Wing (yes the original... I'm that old ;) ) And just sitting there staring at the artwork I was inspired to do games. Then I saw Jurrasic park, Abyss and pretty much every single movie already named plus many more that use it and was hooked back to wanting to do special effects and movies! Same dream, different tools! right M8s?!?! I pretty much started with 3D studio 2 (not max either)Most my originals were pretty sad but I made evey single ship I could from Star Wars and loved it! Moved around through a few different progs Raydream, Max 3 and 4, Animation Master... And here I am with Maya! The rest is history! :)

Here's a screenshot of the first x-wing I made in 6th grade!

P.S. Don't laugh too hard M8s :D

Pretty darn good for, what, eleven years old back then?

Wish there would have been stuff like that around when I was that young...

nice work, sir.

Yeah I actually spent a lot of time on this one... HAHAHA okay now I laughed! That was detail for me back then! Actually what's funny is in the WIP forum I have a thread of my X-Wing in Maya with me saying how I have modeled one in evey prog I've used so far. I only have pics from this, Animation Master and now Maya. Wish I had some from the others... oh well thanks!
Later! Oh and may the force be with you!

for me it was the simpsons. I don't know if any of you watch it anymore but i was in last terms school holidays and they showed the episode where homer goes through the wall and is in the 3D world and now all these great movies are coming out using or made completely in 3d and you just keep wanting to be that good
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saving for maya 4.5 :D

Babylon 5

god damn that show owned me.

is there a video of this chrome ball thingy i want to see it now ?

Oooooh Babylon 5 ROCKED!!!

i did my first model(in max) when i was 12,,,, did not even look back at 3d left if for a year... and then the interest came back....
well, you know the magic word...

MMMMMMMMMMAAYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You know this word...in Greek,MAYA means MAGIC or SPELL....

That's cool! And true, it is magic! :D