Maya crashes a lot, and 95% of the crashes are caused by user error.

I've been using maya since 2016, so I'm fairly new when it comes to experience with the software, however, I work as a generalist and technical r&d. I'll be the one playing Devil's advocate here. So, I just cancelled my Maya annual subscription and will force myself to jump into Blender, from talking to some people I know, only retopo and UVs will be a little bit tougher at first, the rest will seem easier when as soon as I get used to it. Nowadays my Maya crashes a lot, it is taking ages to startup, some simple actions like 'Merge to Center' seem to be worse now than they were before, I have to save before merging objects because it may freeze, some objects just don't multi-cut, when doing retopology of thin objects the faces keep getting backsided, some issues appear that I have to dig really really deep to know where they're from, customizing Maya is a burden, it takes like 9 clicks to customize 1 hotkey, damn this software has been hard to like, whatever Autodesk is doing to Maya over there, it is not looking really good.Īt least the UV tools got better over these last years. Today I'm working at a company where they don't care about which modeling software we use, and I see more and more companies not caring, but some of them might even prefer Blender.īlender was a joke back in 2013 when I started up until 2017, but since 2017/18 we've seen lightning speed in development of Blender tools, more and more up to date tools coming in, more useful plugins that are cheap or even free.While Maya stands still, it is just the same or getting worse.

Today I work in modeling and texture work for games with my own licenses, mainly Maya, Zbrush and Substance I was taught Maya back in 2013 since it's industry standard.

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