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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:10:47 -0600
From: Paul Miller <paul@fxtech.com>
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On 2/1/2013 9:37 AM, mylenium@mylenium.de wrote:
> I tend to see it from a different angle, coming from a 3D graphics
> background. I don't think anyone was actually excluded in the past.
> People just take affordable equipment or things like discounted
> education versions for granted these days, luxuries we never had. There
> wasn't even something like Blender around when I started out as an 3D
> artist 19 years ago.

My first 3D work was in 1988, using an Amiga program called Videoscape. 
It didn't have a UI - you had to type everything into a text file, 
including the data for your models, animation paths, etc. I plotted 
everything out on graph paper and then converted it to numbers as I 
typed it in. Then you waited 2 hours for your spheres and boxes to 
render at 320x240.

Yeah - it really is amazing how much things have changed since then.

And the renders *still* take 2 hours!