Hey! I just realized this week that 3ds Max is 10 years old! That's a decade of developing cool new features (and fixing the odd bug). I hope you've all made the most of it. I came late to the party, but I know that many of you have been plugging away since the DOS days as you often introduce yourselves to me that way. "Hi, I'm Jill Animator and I've been using 3ds Max when it was on DOS, I've got the scars to prove it". Everyone says it so proudly I worry that there was a lot of pain and suffering involved...
For those of you keeping track, here is the historical perspective as relayed to me by Gary Yost (original developer):
- Halloween 1990: 3ds DOS r1 ships
- April 1992: DOSr2 ships
- October 1993: DOS r3 ships
- February 1993: Don Brittain begins prototypes of the modifier stack and general max architecture
- September 1994: development of 3ds max starts in earnest
- September 1994: DOS r4 ships
- Siggraph 1995: we show 3ds max for the first time at the LA conv center
- April 1996: 3D Studio Max r1 ships
- October 1997: max r2 ships
So technically, our 10 year anniversary was in April, but we're going to make this experience last all year! Any of you old-timers still out there?
A Decade of 3ds Max!
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Posted by Wyndego on 09 Sep, 2006 at 04:51 AMI remember the old DOS version of Max! I created my animation studio almost ten years ago now, and we’ve always used 3DS Max. A lot of growth over the years.... awww, nostalgia! Before Max I was working on Hash Animation Master! Those were interesting times.
It’s good to see such a great forum!
Posted by Sputnix on 23 Aug, 2006 at 12:38 PMHow’s this for old school? Anyone remember Cyber Studio? That Atari ST 3ds precursor by Tom Hudson? I cut my teeth on that before I got my hands on ye old DOS 3DS.
As the good old days of 33Mzh 16mb of ram and weeks and weeks to render a few seconds
Posted by Soganatsu on 23 Aug, 2006 at 08:35 AMCelebrate good times! *dances*
Posted by brandond on 23 Aug, 2006 at 06:36 AMI think the 1995 Autodesk University exhibition floor was the first time MAX was shown in public. Back then you could get oohs and ahhs from a crowd simply by showing an animated boolean or an IK/FK rig. Good memories.
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