One more thing to consider here, guys, is that no one ever brings up the fact that the software companies and studios in the CG business both facilitate the hostile competition that exists between the users of certain packages.

You don't hear many studios being called a "Photoshop" house, but high end software companies are PROUD to list all the studios that use their software, and what movies were created with the help of their product, etc.  Blur Studios were for years known as one of the BEST CG companies in the business, and they were famous for being a 3dsmax house, which was rare, because most of the companies in FX at the time were Maya.  Blur's Acadamy award winning shorts were what convinced me to decide to learn 3dsmax.

This was at the PEAK of the Maya/Max "wars", where Alias still owned Maya, and AD was going to move in for the takeover to stun all the Maya users.

You say you don't see the level of software attachment in the pro field?  I say you weren't looking in the pro forums during that time, where Maya and Max users were at each other's throats over how AD would turn Maya into another Max, or possibly combine the two into one big unstoppable force.

Things are much more calm now.  You usually see cooler heads prevail.  Most maya and max users concede that there are good points to both software, and it's good to use both for different strengths.

Then you have mid-level and lower cost products perpetuating the notion that you "don't need to be an artist" to create beautiful art with their software.  Really?  You don't have to be an artist to creat art?  That's new.  But that's the kind kind of mentality they give people.  That if you use their EASY to learn software, you can create the same kind of things you see the big studios making, at a fraction of the cost.

So now you have all these hobbyists out there thinking they are as knowledgable as the pros, and DEMANDING their software company make software with the most cutting edge features, for practically nothing.

Yeah, there's exaggerated emotional attachment.  It's perpetuated by the very nature of the 3d industry.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.