Actually, one of the reasons why MAYA is very famous is because they managed to take the credits for all of the Final Fantasy cutscenes movies, but guess what? The modeling was done in LightWave, while the movie sequences were done in MAYA. MAYA is an excellent movie/film industry program, but LW is a lot harder to beat when it comes to modeling or photorealism. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but it's not very easy.

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