#Raytrace Animations
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Hi Thomas,
Finding a good program for the PC isn't that hard, but on the other
hand it is, since there are so many now! I use Imagine from Impluse.
It's quite powerful and the price is very low compared to the
features. But there is much more. 3D-Studio from Autodesk is very
popular, but for the high price it doesn't offer enough IMHO. But
it's very very expandable (if you have money). Soft F/X (former
Envisage 3D) is just about to come out. It's very fast and runds
under Windows NT and Win32s. A port over form the Amiga is Real 3D.
The feature list is endless and it has things you won't find in any
other PC based program. tureSpace from Caligari looks nice and has a
very easy to learn GUI, but it lacks of some "basic" features and
it's not the fastest, but not exactly slow. Highlight fur Windows Pro
is a small german program mainly for beginners. It's only 350 DM and
has a very easy interface (I started with it). There is also
Animation:Master which is know to be very good for character
animations. It has a spline modeller and sone great animation
features. Playmation the version before Animation:Master is still
available. And very soon (maybe two months) Lightwave will become
available for the PC. LW has been used for some TV series like
SeaQuest for the SFX. It is a very professional program and will be
expandable, too. I'm sure I forgot some. You see there are so many
and each has it's strength. I'd recomment Lightwave, but it really is
only ma opinion. I use Imagine at the moment and I'm quite happy with
it even though there is plenty of room for improovement. Or maybe
Real 3D…
tja, wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual! 🙂 <- this is german
-David
David,
> tja, wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual! 🙂 <- this is german
I'm not sure if you realized this, but it's election night here in
America, and this statement has another meeting. You don't have
political commercials in Germany, do you? While I was there
(8/88-6/89) I don't remember seeing any, and I was told that there
were strict laws prohibiting direct comparisons (which made for
interesting detergent commercials <grin> among others).
Well anyways, most of us here have been subjected to hours of
immature mud-slinging finger-pointing from all directions giving us
quite a bit of pain.
Hi Jeff,
we have political commercials on TV. Every party gets time on TV, but they
can't buy commercial time just like other commercials. So it's limited.
-David
David,
> we have political commercials on TV. <
Sorry to hear that. <g> Here the law is that if a station agrees to
show one political commercial, they must show all. Furthermore, they
all must be charged the same rate (the minimum) regardless of how
many are aired. In short, the stations have no control over what
they show, once they've choosen to show political commercials. This
creates an abundance of commercials that go something like: "Senator
John Smith says he's tough on crime, but he didn't even show up to
vote for the violence agianst kittens bill. –Paid for by People for
Bob Jones for Senate"
Of course if I were a car saleman, I couldn't have a commercial that
says: "Warning!!! Chevy trucks may explode when hit from the side.
–Buy a Ford at 123 Pine Street."
> So it's limited. <
Good!
Jeff,
Did you ever made an animation for a political ad? <g>
-David
David
> Did you ever made an animation for a political ad? <g>
No, but maybe I'll morph Helmut Kohl into a pear <g>, or Ross Perot
into Dumbo the Flying Elephant.
hehe morphing seems to be perfect for political stuff 🙂
-David
Hi David,
Thank you for your help.
Hope I can help you, sometimes.