Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the best 3D software is at the moment for applying a 3D finish to images, The price doesn’t matter as much as the usability and professional finish.
Any suggestions will be greatly recieved
Cheers:bandit:
umm… I use 3ds max! But cinema 4d is very good too! Well I think it is cuz electrongeek makes wonderful stuff with it! I can tell that by looking at his pics!
Thanks,
I’ve had a lot of recommendations for Maya version 4.0, I’m going to look into this, has any one like alethos had any first hand experience they could share with me or any examples of finished projects for me to see the overall finish.
Cheers
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Hi eilsoe,
Do you Know where can I see examples of finished 3dsmax projects and is there a screensave of 3dsmax’s interface I can look at.
Cheers:bandit:
I would recommend trying out both Maya and 3DS before you buy either. I know Maya offers a Personal Learning Edition that you can have mailed to you free of charge. It comes with several basic tutorials that introduce you to some of Maya’s most powerful features, and the Alias|Wavefront website has a community forum dedicated to Personal Edition users (where you can get support very conveniently). Discreet unfortunately does not offer a demo version of 3DS.
If you want to see Maya in action you can check out the free quicktime tutorials at Gnomon Online. I’m sure there are 3DS tutorials out there in video format that will allow you to see it’s interface in action. Both are pretty streamlined, and the new 3DS (versions 4 and up) has changed their interface to more closely resemble Maya’s modularity.
In the end, the only difference between the two is personal preference, I think. Amazing work can be done with both packages, so it’s up to you to decide which you like more. Also consider the amount of support you will be able to get for the package you choose. There’s is a buttload of stuff out there for 3DS, but not so much for Maya.
If you noticed the little caption above my avatar, I m a lurker. I read tons of posts, but rarely reply unless I have something useful to say.
If somebody speaks my name, however, I feel I have to reply so as not to be rude. :+)
As for your tute, I look forward to it.
Oh yeah the quicktime tutorials at the Gnomon Workshop are really great resources. You can learn more watching those for 20 mins than you can reading 5 tutes in an 2 hours.
Thanks people,
I think i’m going to go with 3ds max, I’ve been looking into studio 5 but i’ve also been told to look into Carrara studio 2, do any of you use this.
During my research of 3D packages I came across this site, some of this stuff is truly amazing
chris 5 posts till 100, dont miss it. anyway yeah rustboy was posted in random some time back, it was mostly done in PS then animated in another proggi, stimply amazing! i have MAX 5 and love it, its confusing but love it!
i think i remberer EG saying the creator of rustboy uses Infini-D to create those amazing movies, but its funny you should ask this Q since mdipi asked an almost exact same q just a little while ago.
read this http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12709