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Originally Posted by Efalunt
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to exploit a loop hole or anything here. It's just that there's a student on our team who knows Maya better than he knows Max, and I feel it would be a shame to force him to start from scratch and limit his contribution to the animation.
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Having that student start from scratch and learn Max would put him in exactly the same place as all the other students that are new to animation teams every year. They all have to learn Max from the ground up, and are able to do it successfully every year. Because he knows Maya, he will still have an advantage - the basic knowledge he has about how models are constructed, and the fundamentals of things like the theory of surfacing and lighting will still apply when he learns Max. So he should be OK.
Like WindTech, I am a Lightwave user. I think LW is great, and it is the package that I am willing to sink a lot of time into to really learn (all the kick-off animations for the past five years have been done with Lightwave). I would love it if the competition would let me use Lightwave to contribute to the team animation entry. But the rules don't permit it, so I suck it up and move on. That is just the way things go sometimes.
-dave