I stumbled across a good website (http://www.asterius.com/atari/history1) that had some 3D Studio history and also had a name I recognized Tom Hudson. Tom was involved early with the team led by Gary Yost that eventually developed 3D Studio.
Sample Degas painting by Tom Hudson circa 1985
Klanky the Robot from 3ds Max 9 by Tom Hudson circa 2006 http://klanky.com/
It surely shows how far things have come!
On a related note I have been addicted to Animusic which was created using 3ds Max. This animated segment is amazing when you consider all of the modeling, texturing, timing, lighting, and more. WOW!
Animusic Video 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gpJ1hVoJqU
Animusic Video 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0I6ivSyz8
Animusic info from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animusic
Cheers
Shaan (started with 3D Studio r4 DOS …shaper, lofter etc)
