whch is vary boring. it sucks, all my bryce knowledge is useless. rendering though takes a fraction of bryce.

I'll trade place with you. You can go to my *Physical therapy, an I'll sit in for you. I would love to get Maya training. *Physical TEAR-apy Have fun!

I never learned Mayan, though I do admire the stonework..;)

I have Maya 6 PLE (Personal Learning Edition) down loaded from there site, and would love to learn how to use it. Ive looked at alot of places but everyone wants you to pay far to much for what I feel I can figure out messing around with it on my own. The UI really isnt much diffrent (I say this in VERY broad terms) than 3DS MAX but it does have some features Max doesnt seem to have and those would be nice to learn

Maya is described as "Makes all the really hard things to do easy, and the easy things to do hard", which is sometimes true. The GREATEST thing about Maya is that the entire program is based off MEL, it's embedded language. So if there is ANY task or feature you want it to have that doesn't exist, you can easily write it and plug it in. Redfeather: check out learning-maya.com - free tutorial database I wish I was taking a class in Maya though...

I wish I was there too...

Right on! will do ty DVD

Pak you rock...No Pun intended...

Cool site, nice that they are free, I especially like the; 3d modeling for housewives - useful Lightwave poly-tutorial ...=)

they did such nice calendars..;)

Attached Link: HOW TO WRITE YOUR NAME IN MAYAN

now that's the sorta quirky sites ah lahk..;)

It's been a while since I posted in the Bryce forum. I still teach Bryce to my middle school students but I've been learning Maya on my own for about two years now. To master the program takes some serious dedication, time and, yes, money if you wish to go the path of purchasing tutorial DVD's. The program is just to vast to learn on your own by using the written word alone(over time I have acquired about two dozen Gnomon tutorials). And as DVD MASTER stated, you can use MEL to script just about any type of effect or tool set that you may require. If you have a need for an ongoing new challenge. . . . Maya can keep you going for a very long time!

I find Blender challenging enough..but play on, play on..;)

I find that all my Bryce skills, Ray Dream skills, and Lightwave skills barely prepared me for what Maya has to offer... Which is simply the most potent and powerful set of 3D graphics tools available. Now entire DAYS go by where I don't even open up Bryce, and I haven't touched Poser for weeks...! But, that said, I still do all my modeling in Rhino. Sure, you could program Maya to do everything Rhino can do, but since I already KNOW Rhino, and it already works wonders, I don't know how long it's gonna be until I switch to Maya completely. Perhaps whenever I need poly or Sub-D tools... Good to see some artists moving forward, though! Keep at it Scoleman... Good stuff.

hmm..I started with Blender, but I tend to categorize that as a 'random direction'..;)