bagginsbill opened this issue on Apr 29, 2008 · 496 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 06 May 2008 at 1:45 AM
It is the dream of every 3D "pro" to work for Pixar. Or at least so I've heard.
But of course: that greatly narrows down the field of people who can be regarded as 3D "pros". Perhaps there are 3-to-4 hundred of them in existence in the entire world. Everybody else is -- by definition -- a mere amateur wannabe.
BTW - I've known people who could afford to shell out for a $90,000 medium-format Hasselblad camera setup -- and who used it to take perfectly lousy pictures. While I've known others who could work wonders of the photographic art with "K-Mart Special" types of cameras.
A pro isn't known by his tools -- he's known by his results (except, perhaps, in certain segments of the 3D world: where the software which is used to produce something matters more than the results themselves). While it's true that the right types of tools can help to achieve desired ends: it's also true that the best tools which money can buy don't matter nearly so much as the competence & the talent of the tool's wielder.