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- From: instntguts@aol.com (InstntGuts)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio
- Subject: Re: MAX or Lightwave? How about some MAX here folks.
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 13:19:23 -0500
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- << All of these people are playing with MAX while
- us Lightwave people have to work and make tons of money doing CGI. When
- do I
- get to play? I guess that's the real price you have to pay for knowing
- Lightwave...
- --
- -=Fred=->>
-
- The vast majority of the 60,000-70,000 3D Studio owners also "work" and
- make tons of money with 3D Studio, and have since Version 1 back in 1990.
- They didn't spend $3,000 just so they could occasionally do an
- architectural rendering of their dream house; they did it because they
- could make money with it.
-
- Whether a person spends $995 on LW, $495-3495 on 3D Studio MAX (depending
- on if they got the upgrade), or $8,000 on Softimage NT, that person
- expects that the capabilities of his new tools will enable him to
- accomplish work that a.) he expects to do more easily in that particular
- package than another, and b.) enable him to take on more varied jobs --
- hence more money.
-
- This is part of the "but X costs so much more than Y!" argument that has
- never made any sense to me. No matter how much I spend on my personal
- hardware and software (it averages about $5,000 a year), I am *always*
- able to amortize my expenditures almost immediately thereafter, even doing
- part-time 3D work away from my full-time job. (If I couldn't, then I
- wouldn't spend the money in the first place, right?)
-
- The majority of people who say "but X program is more expensive than Y!"
- are kinda missing the point. No one's forcing you to buy the more
- expensive one. If you get what you want out of the tool that you bought,
- great. If not, then you may have to re-think your purchase. Just because
- you can't justify the cost of a program doesn't mean that the thousands of
- other people who've bought 3DS, Softimage, or whatever, cannot also. They
- obviously can.
-
- -- Jon
-
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- From: Andrew Hofman <andyh@erinet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
- Subject: Re: PictureBlack
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 13:37:02 -0500
- Organization: LumaQuest Productions, Dayton, OH
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