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Originally Posted by bronco67
I know a lot of 3d artists, and almost all of them use PCs. That's a fact.
It's been like that for years. If you're getting into high end animation, you're smarter to go the PC route. There's just more available to you.
The machines are cheaper and usually faster also.
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Sorry, I ran out of time here on that last post, had to take care of something...
but what I was meaning was, yeah it's a stereotype...
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I'm an artist, and I've been creating art with a PC for 15 years -- and making a good living from it. There is NOTHING you can do on a Mac that you can't do on a PC creatively. The BS stereotype that is spoon fed to the public is that artists use Macs, office people use PCs.
I've worked at agencies that are entirely PC driven, and they create some pretty awesome stuff. Most of the art you see in Hollywood movies are done on a PC. Almost all major 3d animation packages are geared mainly toward PCs with Mac development as an afterthought. I know this because any high end graphics software package I've ever used, there's a always a portion of the community that is crying for Mac version.
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but it has truth to it. Just for different reasons. Corporate America likes PCs because they don't want to spend money on upgrading their junk. That's why they're still using XP, IE6 and PCs. (Also because PCs are ultra cheap). And guys like me prefer Macs because I don't want to spend my limited time in this world (that I personally think of as valuable), fixing something that should already work as it's supposed to. I'd rather spend that time working or doing something fun. Fixing busted, jacked up PCs does not interest me in the least.
It's not "artists use Macs, offices use PCs" because of the stereotype... the stereotype exists because of the fact that it, for the most part, it just works out that way in nature.
Hollywood uses PCs predominately? News to me. As I understood it, most new movies are being cut & scored in Final Cut. Wasn't Hurt Locker created entirely on Macs? Wasn't Microsoft's own advertising created on Macs? Just saying, the stereotype has teeth. Not across the board of course, nothing is a 100% sweep.