Maybe TS can provide some demographics like that based on their vendor data...

andy rak

I'm 15, been doing 3dsmax for about 3-4 months

Andy, you are T.Rex!

I'm only 31 and starting from 3d Studio R3 (Dos).

I am 27 going on 28 and I look forward to still being a teenager in my 30s too.

I started 3D work properly in 1997/8 using an early version of Archicad in my college that would render a wireframe still in 10 minutes! Then I got fed up as I saw the furniture designers using 3DS Max and it all looked better so I started using that.

Im sure the newer versions of archicad are very nice though.

James.

Mine was a Spectrum plus 128K.

Then I got an Atari ST, they were great!

I still have the ST, are they worth anything these days?

Here's another ancient. . .

My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum boosted to 48k RAM, with a tape recorder for data storage (it's sitting on my shelf -- funny how PCs grew much larger since, even with the miniaturization trend). Loading a simple 16k program off tape would take forever and would frequently be aborted because one bit was read wrong.

I took "Computer study" as an extra subject in high school and for three years we never once saw a computer. We simply filled out program forms, submitted them and the following week received a stack of punch cards and a printout showing a huge cascade of errors (either because the punchcard operator made a typo or because I didn't really have the hang of programming!).

Computing in university wasn't much better. I had to use a dumb terminal in a room of about 40 terminals, all connected via a single modem (probably only about 300 baud back then). The signal would go all the way downtown via the phone lines and all the way back to the data center just one floor above. Once a half dozen or so students were on the terminals, I would have to wait an interminally long time for every key press to get a response. It's a wonder I wasn't permanently scarred from ever using a computer again!
You kids don't know how lucky you are!!

I´m 27,, and worked professional on StudioTools as employee -(at the beginning still on SiliconGraphics)
- -design was boring- - now I working on Max in an
other studio since one year and I´m addicted to the possibilities in Graphicanimation tools!

Im 40 and only just taking my first look at MAX. bloody fascinating, I'd say.

I'm 15, and have been working in 3ds max since april 2003 and its awesome!

Started modelling in, hmm, back in 91/92 I gather, on Amiga 500, in an obscure (but nice) raytracer proudly called Real3D. Who can beat that, eh eh eh (except Andy T.Rex)? Improved results by _pixellating_ in Deluxe Paint. What a pain! What a horrible waste of time in retrospect :) !
And I lost those files a long time ago. Sigh.

41..about the same as my I.Q.

been with puters from zx81 days...and led watches in the 70's.

ouch!

I'm 46 and have been in the industrial sculpture biz since '82 when I worked for my Dad (contractor for Auto companys /Ford retiree.) My first computer was built on a piece of wood from a drawing in Popular Science (AND gates) and did nothing more than play organ music tones or light lights (used a coffee can for strobe effects.) Eventually I built a host of different gates or circuits and solved elementary math formulas with it.
   Anyway, I'm novice to alot of the modelling software but anxious to get started. I teach Microsoft Certification classes and some of my streetkids model impressive skins with some rudimentary tools. I'm looking to expand my Graphics curriculum to modelling (some of these kids are THAT good) and am looking for the most bang for the buck in an editor. Any suggestions GREATLY apreciated.