a few cinema 4D questions

[ThirdEye]

The student version doesn't expire, C4D is the easiest 3D package to learn, if one day you decide to switch to another app it will be easier for sure (but you'll miss C4D ;) )

[JIII]

yes to make thirdeyes answer more complex. When you switch to maya you will be glad you did, simply because I don't think anyone would recommend a program as complex and hard to understand as maya to a beginner. This is mostly done out of pity's sake. There was once a man who used maya as his first app. He spent 18 months working in it at the end of this time... he had achieved the secret of reflective balls.

Something that you could do and anyone could do in 5 minutes of playing with c4D forthe first time. Of course they would have to know they were trying to make them but anyway.

The point is that the basics of 3D are not always very easy in a complex program like maya or softimage(however I have never tried softimage so I will shut up about that).

[flingster]

the softimage exp 3.0 is out and reported to be very good.

[danb]

well here's kind of the oposite response. i went from using softimage xsi and 3dmax to cinema. i actually think that softimage is pretty easy to understand. its just that its so damn expensive and the renderer is slllloooooowww. plus i am noticing that cinema is stable as hell and able to do almost all the things that xsi and more of the things that a basic max configuration can do. i can only say that my experience with maya was pretty bad. the interface is just to cluttered and confusing to get around. i don't like the renderer in that either. slow as hell. although if you are trying to get into a studio, i'm noticing maya is basically all that's being requested as requirments. so i guess i would recommend learning maya after cinema, but it is going to be quite a jump. although there are tons and tons of resources for maya on the net. but in my personnnal experience i always come back to cinema 4d. plus cinema is poised to catch up and leap frog many 3d appz very soon. hope that helps.

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