#Animation Software
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Bruce,
Is there a list of Animation Software that someone who is interested in
getting involved in animation might pick from. I have about $600.00 to spend
on animation software to start but don't know where to start. I've looked in
magazines that I currently get but animation advertizing is strangely lacking.
I would appreaciate someone pointing me in the right direction. Any who read
this message feel free to respond.
I don't know of a list per se…You might ask John Bridges [75300,2137] in the
GRVENA forum section 3 Grasp, GreG tsadilis [75300,1641] in the IMPULSE section
3 of this forum too. I haven't done much of it at all.
Bruce
Bruce,
Update your address book with my new address….74774,232
-GreG
Funny…I have both…My autolist produced the old one…I just erased it.
Bruce
Danny,
What platform are you on? If you are on the PC and have a CD ROM drive,
Impulse just released Imagine/LT on CD for the PC for $100. Imagine LT (lite)
is the full version of Imagine, with only a few advanced features disabled.
They also also offer a very reasonable upgrade price to Imagine PRO from the LT
version.
They have an advertisement in the December issue of CGW.
-GreG
Danny,
There are three packages that I know off the top of my head that fit your
price range:
TrueSpace – Calagari
Imagine – Impulse
Animation: Master – Hash, Inc.
There is also supposed to be a Windows version of Lightwave 3D available
in a couple of months, the price I am seeing at the moment is about $950.
Animation: Master is available for PC, Mac, Amiga, and SGI. I don't know
about the others, but I'm sure that they hace PC, Mac, and Amiga versions.
A lot of the choice depends upon what type of animation you want to do.
Animation: Master is far and away the best application you can get for doing
character animation. Go to the Hash library and download the file RODLOW. That
is an example of what can be done with AM. It is a totally spline-based
modeling system. If you need to use .DXF, it will import and export that
format. If you want to see what you can do with things like spacecraft, there
are a couple of images in the SF Fantasy Media forum in the Star Wars library
that I did using AM. They are coming out with version 3.0, hopefully no later
than the end of March. The new version will feature some new things like
boolean cutters for spline modeling and a new module called POST for overlaying
and/or combining one or more anims using Alpha, Transparency, and Shadow
buffers, plus a completely re-designed interface.
As an AM user, that is the first thing I would recommend to anyone who
wanted to get into 3D animation. Ask Steve Sapppington in the Hash library to
send you some product info. Hash is a small company, and doesn't have the
marketing clout of Calagari and Impulse, but in this price range and even
higher you can't get a better, more well-rounded package.
Michael S. Flynn
Try Caligari TruesSpace
its Very good!!!!