Who Needs A Rocket Scientist?
As a user, you might not be a 3D expert, but you may graphically know what you want out of the application. The application should be able to help you with that and not force you to become a rocket scientist in order to use it, says Pearce. Many artists that use Maya technology may not be the rocket scientists that their end result makes them appear to be they might just be really good graphic artists with the right palette of tools to call upon. And the tools in the Maya palatte are just this. Maya allows you to draw and animate in a 3D space, but lets you off the hook when it comes to calculating how to animate motion, shadows and lighting ultra-realistically. Maya does the math for you. We ve done some character animation work in the past, but we ve never targeted that market because we knew we d have to invest a substantial amount of money in hardware that we didn t really want in our studio, says Kory Jones of Reality Check, an L.A. production and effects house. However, Maya s ab
