- Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:07 am
#372717
What a great buzz around this release! I guess that is a good thing although...
From my point of view, maxwell is not for everyone no matter what they do, architecture, design, etc. I don’t see it as a mainstream software. This is a basic principle from NL guys, their main goal is not money for sure! There are a lot of companies doing just that...
If you think about it a bit, you can easily understand this is the hard way for Next Limit, so they are on it for a reason... a thing they really believe in, QUALITY!
So, the question is... What is your main concern? What are your priorities... Please name them and number them... It will take 5 minutes to do and it will save you a lot of time and frustrations… Doing that we will be more aware of your choices and it will be easier for all of us to understand each other…
Here are my top 5:
1 - Quality
2 - Designed for creativity
3 - Ease of use
4 - Speed
5 - Versatility
Ok, let me dissect this… First things first!
Quality is my goal, the thing I aim for when I use this software, everything else is secondary. They are important, yes but not comparable to quality. If my number 1 priority is another one, I will not use Maxwell Render, will instead go for other ones that you all know of. But I must say that it only happened in the beginning. Quality became so crucial that I work with Maxwell 90% of the time.
Speed? But what is speed? Forget brands… will a faster car get you there first? Is that the only thing you can think of? What about the route? Come to Lisbon and compete with me going from place A to place B in my hometown, and please bring your best sports car… you will need it! And by the way… what about the decision making, so important in our work? You go from A to B and how do you decide to go this way or that way? Don’t you feel lost and misplaced when you dig deep into the array of tricks available in some softwares? Are you a designer/creative or a 3d visualizer that just executes? Just remember your number 1 priority? Just get to it as simple as you can!
So I am no 3D visualization geek… I am an architect and images that simulate reality are one of the many things I have to produce to get my job done… perfect timing to analise priority number 2, design/creative oriented… Let’s think about it… To get to your quality what is crucial, speed or what you show/create on your image? You can have a supercomputer, or better, loads of money to have your images done in 30 minutes via online render farms, but do you think you will kill it just because of that? Now instead of it, you have a nice computer (like most of us) that will render it in about 8-10 hours (don’t you guys sleep?) but meanwhile you use this tool that pushes you to make decisions, to be creative with immediate response and feedback giving you a sense that you just need to render it for post-production. Why and can can you make this? Well, priority number 3, ease of use. No arguing on that I suppose, Maxwell rocks it.
Now its time for my priority number 4, speed… Yes it is important, but it is just a number… in this case a time number. Why do your clients choose you and your fantastic work? Because of priority number 1, 2, 3 or 4? Since it is on priority 4 I do have a limit for this speed thing, if it renders more than a weekend (sometimes I don’t work on weekends) I will rethink of it and about my workflow!
Don’t get me wrong, most of you guys produce great images, but don’t fool me, it has nothing to do with speed! Well just bit, ok…
Do you feel the same way about your priorities, now that you have set them down?
Cheers!
From my point of view, maxwell is not for everyone no matter what they do, architecture, design, etc. I don’t see it as a mainstream software. This is a basic principle from NL guys, their main goal is not money for sure! There are a lot of companies doing just that...
If you think about it a bit, you can easily understand this is the hard way for Next Limit, so they are on it for a reason... a thing they really believe in, QUALITY!
So, the question is... What is your main concern? What are your priorities... Please name them and number them... It will take 5 minutes to do and it will save you a lot of time and frustrations… Doing that we will be more aware of your choices and it will be easier for all of us to understand each other…
Here are my top 5:
1 - Quality
2 - Designed for creativity
3 - Ease of use
4 - Speed
5 - Versatility
Ok, let me dissect this… First things first!
Quality is my goal, the thing I aim for when I use this software, everything else is secondary. They are important, yes but not comparable to quality. If my number 1 priority is another one, I will not use Maxwell Render, will instead go for other ones that you all know of. But I must say that it only happened in the beginning. Quality became so crucial that I work with Maxwell 90% of the time.
Speed? But what is speed? Forget brands… will a faster car get you there first? Is that the only thing you can think of? What about the route? Come to Lisbon and compete with me going from place A to place B in my hometown, and please bring your best sports car… you will need it! And by the way… what about the decision making, so important in our work? You go from A to B and how do you decide to go this way or that way? Don’t you feel lost and misplaced when you dig deep into the array of tricks available in some softwares? Are you a designer/creative or a 3d visualizer that just executes? Just remember your number 1 priority? Just get to it as simple as you can!
So I am no 3D visualization geek… I am an architect and images that simulate reality are one of the many things I have to produce to get my job done… perfect timing to analise priority number 2, design/creative oriented… Let’s think about it… To get to your quality what is crucial, speed or what you show/create on your image? You can have a supercomputer, or better, loads of money to have your images done in 30 minutes via online render farms, but do you think you will kill it just because of that? Now instead of it, you have a nice computer (like most of us) that will render it in about 8-10 hours (don’t you guys sleep?) but meanwhile you use this tool that pushes you to make decisions, to be creative with immediate response and feedback giving you a sense that you just need to render it for post-production. Why and can can you make this? Well, priority number 3, ease of use. No arguing on that I suppose, Maxwell rocks it.
Now its time for my priority number 4, speed… Yes it is important, but it is just a number… in this case a time number. Why do your clients choose you and your fantastic work? Because of priority number 1, 2, 3 or 4? Since it is on priority 4 I do have a limit for this speed thing, if it renders more than a weekend (sometimes I don’t work on weekends) I will rethink of it and about my workflow!
Don’t get me wrong, most of you guys produce great images, but don’t fool me, it has nothing to do with speed! Well just bit, ok…
Do you feel the same way about your priorities, now that you have set them down?
Cheers!