Max or Maya with Zbrush

[Kerem]

Hello friends,

My goal is not starting a fire with asking this. I know and use Maya already but seriously want to go with Zbrush. Because of it's wideness I already have some training material for 3ds Max also.

I'm seeing lots of amazing renders with 3ds max - I don't how good is the workflow between them. I can go with Maya or with 3ds max - but at this point I need suggestions about cons and pros... They both have mental ray integrated which is nice but that's all I know about Max unfortunately.

I'm also using a low end system at home - an Athlon 64 x2 4400 with 4gigs and windows xp x64. Can't go with too much poly tough :(

[jamespthornton]

I don't know either, but I've seen amazing work come from both with ZBrush. Also, ZBrush 3.5 has early abilities of GoZ for maya. See this post
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showpost.php?p=633521&postcount=179
So if you already know maya, there might not be much reward for the investment of time learning max. I'm just going by the final renders I've seen.

[Shockblade]

Use a combination of both max and z brush.you can save your max work as obj and use it in z brush even peaces and attachments to your models,i think about
posting some work but sometimes have issues doing so in a way becouse i had somewhat the same poblem now im ready though.:D
I also whant to ask do you have any display images yet for some show and
tell.