The magic of Free PLE

Well my main modeling and animation tool is the 3Dsmax, it is what I use best, and what I have been using for the past 4 years. The thing is, there is a great deal of game companies here that use Maya, and not having that in your CV might be an application killer.

So I decided to browse through the Maya website so check out if I could learn something. I barely typed www.alias.com, the first thing that popped in the main page is the Maya 7.0 Personal Learning Edition, Free and without any annoying time limitations!

I mean. The fact that I can download a program just for learning is amazing. I am not a company, I am not going to use it with any commercial purposes anyway, I just want to know how to model, so I can put that I know Maya on my CV.
I have made the 200 Mb download, that took no longer that an hour on my 1 Mb Broadband and installed it.

Turns out that the program seems to be excellent. I am already getting used to the new interface and it has some features that really impressed me.
Today I intend to model a simple test character, to be able to understand how the mapping, rigging and animation inside the program works.

Well, enough now
Let's Model.