Hello, Paul! Thanks for introducing yourself to the community, and welcome to the 3d Modeling forum here at Renderosity. My name is John, and I'm currently the active Coordinator of this forum, as well as the 3dsmax and Blender forums. First, I'd like to say that you have a very intriguing story, and I'm very impressed that you decided to share it with us. Your work is impressive as well. I'm not familiar with the studios you've worked for, but certainly your experience and expertise will be most welcome here.

There are a few threads already started in our forum that you may find interesting, or may be able to help out our members with. Please feel free to familiarize yourself with the threads in this forum as well. Also, if you look around the Forum area of Renderosity, you will see there are forums for a great many variety of 3d software, including 3dsmax (which I personally use for all my modeling requirements as well). I encourage you to participate in that forum, if you have any 3dsmax-specific topics to share. We will be more than elated to have another active user there, as the forum tends to be quite slow. There aren't that many active 3dsmax users here, as I've come to find out myself. However, I'm very active in that forum, and there are a few lurkers over there, who might be inclined to come out of the shadows if you begin posting.

I feel inclined to let you know that in this particular forum, which is dedicated to 3d Modeling in a very general sense, there are users active who use many different packages for their modeling; like Blender, Cinema4D, Hexagon, and Silo. So it's best to keep any modeling threads or replies in this forum more general (like your original thread here). However, it's not a rule; you're certainly free to talk about 3dsmax here as well if you like. Just keep in mind that most of the users here come from other polygonal and nurbs based modeling packages.

With that said, I welcome you once again, and encourage you to have a look around the forum! Please feel free to jump in and reply to any thread that interests you. Have fun, and let me know if I can assist in any way!

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