Real-3d (the Product)
28-Jul-93 15:07:40
Sb: #51468-Real-3d (the Product)
Fm: Don Landis 71673,3612
To: James Roath 76440,2336
PMJI
Having recently competed 3DS rendering with a 486-66 and targa to a 3/4 Umatic
against an Amiga 2000 with excellerator card, Lightwave and frame accurate
output to a SVHS7750 I can honestly say that 3DS beat the amiga so bad that the
owners are now hireing me to do their animation. We used the same project and
created the wireframes in each respective software. The rendering lasted 70
seconds on 3DS per frame as opposed to 21 minutes on the amiga. Granted, the
reflections looked better than 3DS but overall quality, antialiasing,
resolution, color purity was far superior from the targa+. The toaster is a
fine video switcher for the money, but I wouldn't consider the animation
capability fiscally feasable for any serious profit making work. One thing I
did like about the Lightwave product is the wireframe animates during the
keyframing process. 3DS uses box objects, or you have to do a low res.
rendering that I very seldom use because it IMHO is a waste of time. I wonder
if Gary is adding something like this for release 3?