Maya isn't something to busk as it is like climbing a mountain to learn properly.

Once I got stuck into Maya (£1800 when I bought 5), the maintainance agreement was a big chunk on top which I could not afford, so despite forums in hand, I was basically on my own in terms of trouble shooting. Maya is a fantastic and very deep software suite, and I used it (and still do) up to versions 5 & 6 - about the time of the alias / autodesk switchover. There's no 'back-doors' here.the Open Source projects (Wheter it's Blender or any other software) it's one of the most pure instances of freedom in the world today. With a learning model (Our communnities, wikis etc.) democratic and freely available, for anyone interested in learning, in creating true art, without discrimination or exclusion of any kind (The software patents are inherently discriminative). 's free, meaning true openess, true freedom, true belonging to something really BIG.we may be called naive by professionals using the mainstream software, but just because we can do the same (If not better) than them, without spending thousands of dollars.and without our computers being inspected by someone. They don't even care about the optimization of their own code.In many aspects, Blender is (at least for me, having tested several autodesk products) far superior than them.once you've learned Blender it's like playing a very addictive videogame (Mainly in the modeling process). Hmmmm.I din't know this.but this is not unexpected, such companies don't care about the user (I wonder if they even consider their customers as artists?).

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