To: vincent bilotta who wrote (3613 ) 11/19/1997 2:35:00 PM From: John M. Zulauf Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Vincent, I don't know the pricing model for Maya, but I do know that porting Maya to NT will remove barriers to entry (ie. IRIX only) and increase volume as such. About Maya's TD orientation -- I think it probably the most consistant large product I've seen. A fairly small set of techniques used in most situations. Also the direct manipulation model (on screen manipulators) has been very popular with the rank and file users. Using a variety of techniques, the "pick/stroke" depth to each feature has been reduced to a nearly flat space -- with excellent "physical memory" reenforcement. As for "TD focus" -- this mean a TD (if they are smart) can configure Maya into a "task-specific" UI for the "sea-o-cubes" user. They see a simpler product, and get more animation done per man-hour. Yes that helps the big user more than the one man shop -- well, er, "show me the money" ;-). For the one man shop, to quoute the immortal Super-Chicken, "you knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred!" You want to do everything, go for it, you can! I think you'll find that pretty quickly, you'll started saying, "well I built some sliders, and dialogs for the high-level behaviors of the animation and ..."
