Hey, you too can learn Maya from your own home! Have you ever considered the exciting world of computer effects graphics? Does your computer have 6 GB of memory? Do you want to make your neighbors and relatives cry with the beauty and depth of your creations? Autodesk Maya 8.5 has all you need and more to build your own stunning universe (with physics!)!
*Takes a DEEP BREATH* Anyway, so I made a bouncing ball the other day. It was strangely satisfying. Omid is going to eventually teach me and Jake to model, so in the meantime I've been perusing a somewhat baffling book called THE ART (cough) OF 3D COMPUTER ANIMATION AND EFFECTS THIRD EDITION, which has a picture of Shrek reaching out towards you on the front. It's very general and its a good introduction to various techniques and jargon, some of which I knew from my brief encounter with 3D imaging from Bryce, some of which I am vaguely familiar with through various television shows on Industrial Light and Magic, most of which I had no idea about and still don't. As I'm itching for something a bit less general (I want to pull on polygons, but I don't even know how to pull them in Maya), I was looking for tutorial stuff I could watch from the comfort of my room so I at least had some vague idea of what I am doing before going down to ASH and trying it out on my own. The Maya website is shiny and proclaims that you can now purchase Maya ULTIMATE 8.5 for 4,995$, a 3,000$ discount. It also says I can download a FREE version which puts watermarks on my images, and I considered this for a minute.
My laptop:
CPU Intel, 1.73 GHz
RAM 1014 MB
yeah, not going to try at this point. I at least need another gig worth of memory.
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