What is pros&cons doing a CG Animation in Unity compared to 3DMax/Maya?

Questions & Answers
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After seeing the “Butterfly Effect” CG Animation demo, I have been wondering is it practicable to use Unity doing a CG Animation movie in future.

The standard way of doing CG Animation is using 3DMax,Maya,Lightwave, if I’m not wrong.

Unity has a lot of powerful features like physics system, Shuriken Particles, rendering etc. which should give it a lot of advantages that might reduce the production time.

So what are the major pros&cons doing a CG Animation in Unity compared to current standard way of using 3DMax/Maya/Lightware? (Of course, the models are still developed from those tools)

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well animating in unity gives you access to events which allow you to control scripts and other animations timings
where as you couldnt do that with an imported animation

though i have heard that people have somehow worked around this

other than that its only good for animations in WORLD space of the level
if you have a stubborn artist they can just as well do it in whatever it would just be a pain in the ass. for integrations.

after that animation is best kept to the proffessional animation software