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  Animation Package Recommendations

  Posted by Tristan004 on May 10, 2007 at 8:23 pm

  Hi –

  This is probably not the right place to post this topic, but I’m looking to buy a relatively simple to use, affordable 3d animation package, but have no idea where to start. Does anybody have any recomendations?

  I’m very comfortable with fcp 5.1 & AE 6.0, if that helps.

  Thanks.

  Tim Walton

  Burt Hazard replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steven Gonzales

  May 10, 2007 at 8:39 pm

  Here’s a page with links to most of them.

  https://www.pure-mac.com/3d.html

  Some companies, such as Maya, have a free learning version.
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  Burt Hazard

  May 11, 2007 at 4:55 pm

  And of course, as usual, it depends what you ultimately want to do. Something like Maya is expensive but it is top of the line and allows you to do most everything. Lightwave and Cinema 4D are cheaper but are good solid 3D packages. I had a free trial version of Cinema 4D (XL6 version) that they had given away in COMPUTER ARTS and 3D WORLD magazines and had found it very easy to use for the level that it is operating on, but the trial had run out. At the moment I use a (cheap!) combination of Bryce, Daz Studio, and Hexagon. Specifically I do modelling in Hexagon and import the models into Bryce for the final animations. You can’t do much modelling in Bryce itself (but there are some people who actually do some modelling in Bryce, by using the Terrain Editor, etc.). Likewise, Hexagon is purely a modeller and you can’t do final rendering in it (or character “rigging”). Although in Bryce 6 they have added the capability of importing animatible characters/creatures from Daz Studio (which comes with Bryce). Ultimately I would recommend Cinema 4D, which I’ll probably end up buying myself.

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