I can remember when I finally got permission at school to use Alias Studio on one of only two SGI Octane machines.  At the time, you had to get special permission just to be able to use them because they were so expensive.  The reputation of the software and the high quality of output for movies like Jurassic Park were pretty exciting to me, so I pushed to learn it.  About a year later, Studio became Maya and was released for Windows NT.  This was considered the ultimate software at the time… Read more