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Sketchy · 10th August 2007, 22:04

That's the whole point of buying "other" apps these days. It's not like you buy one and that's it. You have to spend another couple hundred bucks of learning materials just to figure how the ui works. Not to mention the time it takes to do all these things. Time is precious. In Carrara all you need is the pdf documentation that goes with it.

I can have the most expensive 3d app in the world and end up not producing anything from it. How many people (not big studios) who own any of these apps (Lightwave, XSI, Maya, Max) could even produce a 20 sec animation similar to one of Elephants Dream's? I just don't know of any to this day. Do you?

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Sketchy Box modeling Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 317	That's the whole point of buying "other" apps these days. It's not like you buy one and that's it. You have to spend another couple hundred bucks of learning materials just to figure how the ui works. Not to mention the time it takes to do all these things. Time is precious. In Carrara all you need is the pdf documentation that goes with it. I can have the most expensive 3d app in the world and end up not producing anything from it. How many people (not big studios) who own any of these apps (Lightwave, XSI, Maya, Max) could even produce a 20 sec animation similar to one of Elephants Dream's? I just don't know of any to this day. Do you? Last edited by Sketchy; 11th August 2007 at 00:42.