Anonymous at Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:41:07 UTC No. 836303

Average to good, it's not the best but it's what people use in film because it's gonna end out in maya anyway and everything needs to be grouped and parented ready for animation and what not. Max and probably modo beat it for pure poly modelling.

Maya has very good retopology and UV tools though.

Anonymous at Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:48:57 UTC No. 836306

>>836303
Would I be gay If I preferred blender over maya when it comes to to modeling? I’ll still use maya for curves and nurbs, but the modifiers in blender are much more useful for me

Anonymous at Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:56:02 UTC No. 836308

>>836306
I am in the same boat, but if you call me gay I rip your balls out and feed them to the sharks.
Blender is a little faster than Maya for modelling (IMHO) and the modifiers are very helpful. Unfortunately if you doing complex SubD modelling sooner or later Blender shits the bed. Same with complex scenes. Don't get me started on the grouping and parenting.
I refuse to animate in Blender (cause its absolutely shit) same as with anything related to simulations or hair.
So I use both, usually I start with Blender and finish with Maya. Best of both worlds.
That's the way.

Anonymous at Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:59:22 UTC No. 836309

>>836300
Good enough granted you're not a total spaz

Anonymous at Thu, 1 Jul 2021 02:50:09 UTC No. 836331

>>836300
yes.
just need to remember one golden rule which is if you use vanilla toolset, you HAVE to clear your history every now and then or it WILL shit itself.

Anonymous at Fri, 2 Jul 2021 07:48:46 UTC No. 836535

>>836306
i never worked with maya, max and blender only, but from my experience wanting to stick with blender is all about habits and your laziness to let go of bad ones. blender itself objectively has no advantages and once you learn the superior software, you're not going to miss it. switching just means a few days of learning a slightly different workflow/tools and changing hotkeys around.

blender is for finding out whether or not 3d CG generally is for you or not. once you've made your decision it's time to move on.

Anonymous at Fri, 2 Jul 2021 09:49:02 UTC No. 836546

I've used maya for 6+ years and IMO Maya's much better for hard surface modeling. Mayas system for textures sucks compared to Blender. Blender is much easier to go from photo to model to render. Blender also does a much better simulation system than Maya IMO but I've heard others argue that. Maya is hands down the best for rigging and animation though.

Anonymous at Fri, 2 Jul 2021 11:21:58 UTC No. 836552

>>836546
I am animating in blender myself, but never touched Maya. Can you tell what tools Maya has and Blender lacks (related to character animation and rigging)

Anonymous at Fri, 2 Jul 2021 11:29:15 UTC No. 836553

>>836306
Blender is much better at modeling than Maya. If you consider switching, switch to Max for that.

Anonymous at Fri, 2 Jul 2021 22:56:53 UTC No. 836694

>>836535
I think it is partially that, but there are also many other reasons as to why I prefer blender.

Firstly, many of the modifiers in blender are too useful to give up. The array and mirror modifier in particular are, in my eyes, a major advantage that blender has in terms of modeling. You can set up procedural systems and work on things like revolver cylinders where the cylinder is made up of 6 rotated segments. In maya, to my knowledge, in order to know what the revolver cylinder would look like when it's complete, you have to select the parts, copy, and rotate.

Another thing I prefer is blender's options on selection. You can select loops, guidelines, select the inside and outside of an edge, and so much more. I am sure that maya has similar options, but from my experience with trying to use it's equivalent of proportional editing, it was just too damn convoluted.

you can't even extrude vertexes in maya

Anonymous at Fri, 2 Jul 2021 23:46:23 UTC No. 836701

>>836694
I'd rather get raped by a horde of feral Africans than use FOSS faggotry.

Heil Autodesk

Anonymous at Sat, 3 Jul 2021 01:23:48 UTC No. 836719

>>836694
wanna know how I know you never opened maya in your life

Anonymous at Sat, 3 Jul 2021 02:32:25 UTC No. 836728

>>836719
I used maya for an entire semester

Anonymous at Sat, 3 Jul 2021 05:42:02 UTC No. 836735

>>836300
YOU KNOW YOU CAN JUST USE BLENDER RIGHT?! LIKE AM I IMAGINING STUFF HERE OR DO YOU THINK THE SOFTWARE MAKES YOU BETTER LOL.

Anonymous at Sat, 3 Jul 2021 06:22:27 UTC No. 836743

>>836694
all of the things you mentioned are there, in a superior version, in 3ds max. i have no idea why you're focused on maya specifically for poly-modeling, as that's not what it's focused on in the first place (3ds max is).

Anonymous at Sat, 3 Jul 2021 06:37:38 UTC No. 836744

It's good for extending with custom functionality and functionality that replaces the garbage it ships with, until you find a bug in the API or have to interact with the DAG in any way and then you're totally fucked.

It's not good for fast evaluation.

Anonymous at Sat, 3 Jul 2021 08:55:48 UTC No. 836753

It's good for everything, it's fucking used by pros. Retards here can't even complete one single render and ask themselves if the software is at fault. No you just suck. Pick one and go practice your donut.

>I’m unsure as to how good it is at basic modeling or hard surface modeling.

Now i'm not sure if this is bait or you're serious.

Anonymous at Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:55:49 UTC No. 838934

>>836300

Maya is a great piece of modelling software, but it's Booleans and remesher could be better.

Anonymous at Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:45:22 UTC No. 839338

>>836308
Can you elaborate on your workflow? When do you start thinking you're done with Blender and move on to Maya? Complete newbie here, if the wuestion doesn't make sense

Anonymous at Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:46:42 UTC No. 839343

>>838934
Maya for modeling, rigging, and animation; and Houdini for the rest. It werks.

Anonymous at Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:49:41 UTC No. 839344

>>836300
It's really idiot-proof, there are like 500 ways to do the same thing so you can easily find a workflow you are comfortable with.

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:16:32 UTC No. 839372

>>836753

Maya is absolute dogshit at modeling. It even creates nonmanifold geometry on the fly for absolutely no reason.

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:18:21 UTC No. 839373

>>836306

No it would be normal. Blender is way better than maya for modeling. Poly modeling is actually Blender's greatest strength. They're fixing the performances issues with 3.0 so subD modeling is much more pleasant, even with the current beta.

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 09:28:36 UTC No. 839443

all is subpar to zbros

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:11:49 UTC No. 839456

>>836300
What's the best way to obtain Max for free if I have no intention of getting a job or making money in any way?

Blender is shit.

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:30:01 UTC No. 839473

>>839456
Enlist for college, you'll get it for it free.

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:37:23 UTC No. 839474

>>839443

zbrush cowboys are useless

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:09:35 UTC No. 839478

>>836303
modo sucks

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:52:38 UTC No. 839483

>>839473
Can I use old college credentials if I haven't been a student for 10 years?

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:10:41 UTC No. 839540

>>839483
No

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:41:03 UTC No. 839549

>>839540
Why not

Anonymous at Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:52:11 UTC No. 839563

>>839549
Because you're supposed to currently be enrolled as a student. Making a false claim would be illegal, duh.