Quote - A couple of years ago, DAZ hired me to demo Carrara at SIGGRAPH. I was showing some other animation pro's how Carrara handles animating a helicopter and how easy it is use the Carrara tool set. They commented what I did in a couple of minutes would have taken 20 minutes in Max. But, stuff done in Carrara can't be ported to other render engines or exported consistently into something like FBX with predictable results on the other end. So, they walked away, wishing they could use Carrara in the work-place but knew it was never going to happen. 

Wow.  Wonder what studio they work for?  20 minutes to animate a helicopter in Max isn't exactly accurate.  Although, it would depend highly on the animation and model in question, but just to get propellers spinning, it would literally take 10 seconds.  Just hit the animate button, move the timeslider, and then rotate the blades.  To make them spin faster, just rotate them more.  To lift off, just create an animation path from a spline, and link the entire helicopter to it, then it's off.  That's certainly not a 20 min operation in Max. ;)

However, for a much more complex model, with many animateable parts that may need to be scripted, etc., then even a Maxscript to animate those complex functions would only take 10 min to write. Oh well. 

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