# Maya or 3d Max
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396
**Category:** design
**Created:** [April 21, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396 "2006-04-21T00:02:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@colombianking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/colombianking)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/21 "2006-04-21T20:46:26Z")
im wondering could you be a game designer with maya 3d
?
:puzzled:
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### Author:  [@DDD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DDD)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/22 "2006-04-22T00:22:36Z")
try each
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### Author:  [@colombianking](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/colombianking)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/23 "2006-04-22T02:30:00Z")
I tried both
and i think im going to go with maya
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### Author:  [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/24 "2006-04-22T03:53:53Z")
[ot]:lol: @ danulf badmonur, where’d you go? you forgot the contest;)[/ot]
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### Author:  [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/25 "2006-04-22T03:54:57Z")
🙂 yay
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### Author:  [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2006, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/26 "2006-04-22T06:20:17Z")
Both applications do very well. The only aspect you should consider is which one you are more comfortable with because either one you need to spend time, a lot of time.
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### Author:  [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/27 "2006-04-23T01:41:20Z")
I wonder now with alias and maya under discreet’s arm if this question with soon be obsolete?
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### Author:  [@gpdesigner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gpdesigner)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/28 "2006-04-23T03:52:45Z")
> [@.soulty](#):
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> I wonder now with alias and maya under discreet’s arm if this question with soon be obsolete?
This is going to be fun to watch . . . like Ford buying Jaguar . . :hugegrin:
“used parts . . plastics pieces”
I would go for Maya . . . tackle the learning curve, and everything else will be easy.
gp
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### Author:  [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/29 "2006-04-23T04:27:38Z")
does maya come with a good built in renderer? I know older versions of 3ds seemed to require third party renders for quality renders, or some sort of gay trick.
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### Author:  [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/30 "2006-04-23T05:08:16Z")
^ most def. Maya’s default renderer is pretty good when you can adjust it right, and maya 7 also comes with mental ray 3.2 and a vector rending engine used in swit3d v3.
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### Author:  [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/31 "2006-04-23T12:34:46Z")
Mental ray is the shizzle! I"ll grab some renders from the net soon.
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### Author:  [@gpdesigner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gpdesigner)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/32 "2006-04-23T13:36:04Z")
> [@SlowRoasted](#):
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> 3ds seemed to require third party renders for quality renders, or some sort of gay trick.
:lol: . . . . . :stunned: sorry . . . .
gp
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### Author:  [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/33 "2006-04-24T06:27:08Z")
Now this is some host yet really simple rendering in maya with mental ray 😛
[URL=“[http://static.highend3d.com/tutorialimages/241/angular.jpg](http://static.highend3d.com/tutorialimages/241/angular.jpg)”] 
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### Author:  [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/34 "2006-04-24T09:25:11Z")
Brazil and Maxwell can be used with 3ds and give kick-\*\*\* rendering.
In my school it’s divided 50/50 and we don’t get to choose our app at the beginning of the year (next year for me). But the movies are mostly good in either case !
[http://www.90degrees.fr/](http://www.90degrees.fr/)
[http://clik.clak.free.fr/clikclak\_hd.mov](http://clik.clak.free.fr/clikclak_hd.mov)
[http://www.dynamo-lefilm.tk/](http://www.dynamo-lefilm.tk/)
[http://tomiland.free.fr/HERNANDOimages.htm](http://tomiland.free.fr/HERNANDOimages.htm)
[http://www.supinfocom-arles.fr/Films/2004/True%20color.wmv](http://www.supinfocom-arles.fr/Films/2004/True%20color.wmv)
[http://noxcaedis.free.fr/videos/nox\_high.avi](http://noxcaedis.free.fr/videos/nox_high.avi)
Sorry for link dumping…
mlk
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### Author:  [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/maya-or-3d-max/186396/35 "2006-04-25T03:06:09Z")
sweet finds 🙂
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