On the other hand I found both rigging and animation in Maya makes me vomit. But that may be due to fact that never mastered rigging in Maya myself as after trying it in SI it was whole new world. As for animation... ALL rigs I ever had to work with in Maya were made by riggers that should better stay away from any rigging at all. Half-riggers that makes half done, bad rigs that breaks and brings any comp to crawl with like 4fps playback. So unless you have like master rigger at hand.. don't count on good animation in Maya. And trust me most of small to medium studios and freelancers don't have access to good rigger. And that is when nightmare starts and never ends
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@hybride.com>wrote: > Being super realistic, the only option for serious film work in regards to > rigging and animation is Maya. Sorry if people don't want to hear it but it > is. I personally don't see anything coming in the next 2 years that is > going to be up to the level we need it to be to do everything we can now > other than Maya. I'm not saying we won't push Fabric very hard on top of > it, but for keyframe animation, deformation effects, and general rigging > tools, there isn't anything else. > > 2 cents. > > Eric T. > > > On Friday, February 28, 2014 4:32:43 PM, Nika Ragua wrote: > >> aha, the thread smoothly turned into FE discussion ))) great >> Clara.io will also have nodal tools, great, great !!! >> Houdini VOP also awesome >> with your permission i`ll raise the question once again - where will >> you move ? >> > >
