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Originally posted by stevek


MAYA is the best 3D software out there. If you dont know that then you need to look at the highend pros at places like pixar.
Sure, for now... Pixar and others use many of their own tools as well, they hardly work just in Maya... it's not nearly advanced enough to support that.

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BTW: Things are free for a reason, its not becuse they are better, there is no way these free products have the features that the other software has that cost several thousand dollars. Its not because it cost more that makes me say that, its because the compaies can hire the best programmers to to the work. I dont know about you, but I couldnt afford to spend all my time and energy developing a product that wasnt going to support my family. So these products dont have nearly the same resources dedicated to them.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. First of all... the blender community raised in excess of $100,000 for the release of the sourcecode and the set up of the infrastructure for blender. Second, Apache, Linux and the numerous other products which absolutely rip products which do cost money an new place to excrete in terms of quality and performance futher prove that software which doesn't cost money can and usually ends up being, better than it's competition.

Next time do some research before bashing products which cost less.

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Products dont stay in this industry if they are over priced. You may think that a full version of MAYA is overpriced, but its based on the tools it has and the power it has. If it were the same or worse as a free software package or one that is 1/2 the price, how long do you think they'd stay in business? NOT LONG.
If your point was true, Microsoft would have long faded into oblivion. The fact is, overpriced products can usually survive longer than they should for very stupid reasons. Now don't get me wrong, with the current development, Maya definately has it's market. But Blender is nearly on par with 3DS, it will soon exceed it and the next thing to go after will be Lightwave and Maya. It will likely eventually exceed them in functionality as well.

GIMP is a great example of free software that goes from the ground to competing with the de facto standard and, for some people's uses, definately beat it. Linux is another thing that went from mere competition with Minix to one of the most prevalant server Operating Systems in the world.
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