Update....

Well...where do I start. Since starting a new job outside of 3D, games and all things creative, I have been learning lots of new things and pushing myself in my new role as Higher Education Quality Manager. I am looking after the complience and quality of degree courses and similar in my local university centre...and I am really enjoying it. The people are great and the travel is 10 mins !!!! rather than a long drive/train to Manchester. I am still teaching some sculpting and possibly some rigging / animation for worldskills so I am covering the 3D thirst a little, but to be honest I have been getting back into games. For almost 25 years I have done 3D every day and to have a break is nice.

As a developer I found a lack of interest in games, almost like when you discover the man behind the curtain the magic is lost. But now, I feel my love for games coming back which is great. I have a 60 lvl character in new world which I amazing at the level of environmental beauty there is. I have been playing some project zomboid and other smaller games also.

Keeping an eye on the 3D scene and talking to contacts, I am starting to see Blender creeping in to the industry a lot more, and as a 3D Max guy am dissapointed in Autodesks response. It seems like as long as they have their CAD stuff they don't care anymore about the game and anim guys. Yes, maya too has been getting some pointless updates while the Blender devs seem to be smashing it, hats off to them..

I always took the piss a little of Blender but I have to say they are impressing me more and more, I wish the community didn't resemble some Call of Duty script kids...but as more expirienced people more over to it, the community is getting a lot more mature.

We will see...