I went to CDIS back when it was CDIS and finished my program when it became AI.
Anyways. 3DS MAx is still used by many different studios and pretty much most major companies will let you choose while some smaller ones will restrict you to one or the other.
The thing is that now that Discreet owns both Maya, 3DS MAX and Autocad 3D you can create whatever you want in either and import into each other and pretty much most of the major 3D platforms out there.
So the main thing when trying to break into the industry is to have a strong Demo reel, portfolio and insane hand drawing skills. Things really have changed. When I was at CDIS the big thing was low poly modelling and optimizing models for low poly now its still low poly only what is considered low poly now is at least 100 times the count of what it was 10 years ago.
So I went and became a photographer instead.
