Journal NanoGator's Journal: Man, some people are idiots... 12
Heh. Today I had somebody call Lightwave 'bad software'. Their reasoning was pretty silly. Here's a link to the post:
What's really amusing is that my post was along the lines of "I did a cool hack to make animation faster." and this dumbshit tried to turn it into a "LW vs. Maya" debate. I got lightly suckered in, couldn't help it. When you spend so much time learning how to make effective use of a product, you can't help but make your time worthwhile.
Too bad he was an AC. I bet he never saw my response. Coward.
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One thing I love about Maya's interface though is it's quick "spacebar menu" (can't remember it's official name).
So, you do it for a living then?
(this post doesn't count towards the great /. blackout :)
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Yes, I do it for a living. Technically my job doesn't have me doing animation so much, but my 3D and general multimedia skills are extremely useful where I work. I do a lot of independent study with 3D.
You know, Ive heard blurbs about the
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Oh yeah! I should add fuel to the fire! Lightwave and Maya both pale in comparison to Blender!
(You might have to look purely at the "out of box" price to performance ratio. That means no scripting either, OK?)
;-)
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
Blender? Heh you know, I never did get around to playing with that. Wish I could comment on it. Im pretty well dead set on using LW, but I would like to use Maya one day. If only I could get an educational version of Renderman...
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Link for more reading on the blackout:
http://slashdot.org/~rho/journal/5872
:)
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I love the art @ sites like raph.com [raph.com], 3dluvr [3dluvr.com], DeviantArt [deviantart.com], and a few others. I got to have my moodfix ya know (got any links [3dlinks.com] that don't get enough respect?)
'bout the /. blackout .. what the other guy said .. though I thought you were play'n dumb. :)
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No, I wasn't playing dumb, but I wasn't paying attention either hehe. *will look at that soon*
I currently haunt www.scifi-meshes.com [scifi-meshes.com] . Pretty soon we'll be doing contests etc for people to earn prizes.
Here's a piece of artwork I did with Lightwave/Photoshop:
Ferion Website Interface... [nanogator.com]
Thought you might be interested.
Nano
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http://www.nanogator.com/ferion_interface_compl
Sorry about that.
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Were ya able to see the pic that time? I think I just typo'd it originally.
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(netcraft said you were runn'n Apache)
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