#3d Rendering
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I am trying to help a friend with a search for some software. He is
an artist who works doing sandblasting onto glass – and recently has
started to work on things like vases and goblets. He would like to
find a program that will allow him to draw a 2d image and then have
it rendered to the shape he is working on. I co-worker suggested
that 3D Studio might able to do this. Would this be possible? If so
how difficult? Erik is a brilliant artist but not much of a computer
techie…
I think this is possible. You can buy some painting software, paint
the picture (texture map) and the use the 3D Studio for rendering the
vase with this picture. For artistic pictures, the program called
Fractal Painter will be the best I think. But the whole job is not so
simple. Maybe you will need bump maps, opacity maps etc. It will take
some time to learn how to make such 3D pictures.
If you only need to do goblets and vases, then 3d-Studio is the
easiest around. All you have to do is draw 1/2 a silhouette and then
loft it in a 360 degree circle… it takes but seconds. You can
apply virtually any material to it and look at it from any angle or
distance. If you are going to need artistic drawings on the vase,
goblet,etc… then you will need a 2D paint program like PhotoShop,
PhotStyler, or other. Hope I help…