[pzone]

These days Maya and Max are the same price as Photoshop - $250/y vs $20/mo. Incidentally Houdini is also about the same, $279/y.

[webmaven]

> These days Maya and Max are the same price as Photoshop - $250/y vs $20/mo. Incidentally Houdini is also about the same, $279/y.

As I recall, pricing of 3D modeling/animation/rendering suites was much steeper when Blender started gathering momentum.

[Checks pricing]

Umm, it looks like the price is still quite high (Maya and Max are each $1.6k/y). Where are you getting that figure from?