Vladimir_Golovin comments on New Year's Predictions Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 03 January 2010 10:00:12AM 0 points [-]

My reply is here. BTW, major CG packages like Autodesk Maya and 3DS Max were at the level of $5000 and below for over a decade.

Comment author: MatthewB 03 January 2010 12:35:25PM 0 points [-]

I've been out of circulation for a while. Last time I priced Autodesk, was in the early 90s, and it was still tens of thousands. I'm just now getting caught up to basic AutoCAD, and I hope to begin learning 3DS Max and Maya in the next year or so. I am astounded at how cheap these packages are now (and how wrong one of my best friends is/was about how quickly these types of software would be available. In 1989, he said it would be 30 to 40 years before we saw the types of graphics displays & software that were pretty much common by (I have discovered) 1995)... Thanks for the head's up though.