Oh?

What for o.o

Did you use propane?

That's an awful lot of gas! Hello, productivity! :)

What would three of these do for you?

http://www.hometheatrepoint.com/wp-.....LG_100inch.jpg

raccoon! <^_^>

It would steal all your shinies at that size!
And the TV's nice too. Would probably still be limited to 1080p, though, and I get that with a 23" monitor.

And yet it's still not enough screen space to run Maya.

Nobody in the architecture fields really uses Maya.

Why would you use an animation program to design buildings?

Well... there was that one time for my insane boss Bart. I tried to explain to him that I'm not an architect but he was like "oooh! you do 3D! Make this house!" Man.... contractors.

The McNeel suite is becoming the standard in architecture. It used to be StudioMax, but its slow demise proves my theory that the future of of the industry is entirely determined by how accessible its software is to students (piracy and cheap educational licenses). After Adobe jacked up the price on Harvard's deal, you started seeing a lot more Corel around here - that's big.

Studiomax may be the standard with larger older firms now, but most students graduate having learned Rhino, Grasshopper, etc. See where things are in ten years, ya know?

Back before Autodesk owned Maya it used to be the same way. Sutdents (and actually anyone) used to be able to get a free, fully functional version of Maya where the only drawback was a watermark that would be placed on any render. Watermarked images were still fine for portfolios and little pet projects, though. Unfortunatly when Autodesk acquired Maya the put an axe right through that.

Watermarked renders are not ok for portfolio grade work, which is entirely different from "little pet projects". Maxwell has overtaken all other render engines lately in architecture with its $200 student license. The real influence isn't in watermarked or Beta copies, but clean quality cracks of the real thing. That's a huge undercurrent in these schools, and has had a role in putting academics way ahead of the profession in the last 10 years.

Well, that all being said, Maya is way out of the price range of anyone trying to get into the industry. As such, it's pretty thoroughly cracked at this point. What I'm saying is before Autodesk, Maya at least tried to appear like it was appealing to students. I dunno, maybe Autodesk realized that students were going to pirate the software anyway.

Amazingly, most don't even draft in Autocad now. I use acad, but I'm very old-school for doing so. I'd say most students at the GSD (which along with Sci-Arc and the AA control the direction of the industry) draft in... Rhino, lol.

While I've tried other programs I've found the adobe suite works best for me and is also the set of programs I feel most comfortable using. I've only had bad experiences with corells products being very slow and prone to crashing. Hmm I'm going to have to try Rihno. I've used3DSMAX in the past and found it to be nearly inscrutable, I have a love-hate relationship with autocad. I hate using it, but I can't get by without the damn thing.

Mmm, delicious pixels

I'll say that will last about 3 months

digital pork chop sandwiches!

What do you think Cinema4D instead of Maya?

Architects use it in lieu of Maya. I touched it when it was hot 4 years ago (but even Rhino can do many of these tasks now). C4D is nice though, no nonsense.

My dream set up. One needs to switch over to a PS3 or a 360 when you're finally bored.

SNES

fuck.yes.

Very nice! :D