alt Hacker News> I wonder why he showed it off.
Probably because it ran Maya. Which was a SGI product back then, not an Autodesk product yet.
> I wonder why he showed it off.
Probably because it ran Maya. Which was a SGI product back then, not an Autodesk product yet.
Ha, you nailed it. That's exactly what it was. Thanks for jogging my memory.
Back then Maya seemed like this unobtainable, magical machine for producing impossible imagery. When I finally got my hands on it, I was so disappointed to realize I still needed skills to make it do the cool things. I was ~16 and pretty clueless. I just knew Maya was used for the crazy stuff I was seeing in cut scenes from games or special effects in movies.