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3D Software
I’m interested in doing 3D animation for music videos. I would appreciate positive / negative responses to Cinema 4 & Lightwave. thank you.
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The infamous question which software should I pick? Well the answer is subjective to a great extent, but interms of Lightwave VS Cinema, I personally like CInema 4D alot more, having used both. For one I don’t like the fact that in Lightwave the Layout and Modeling is split. I also found it harder to learn. Cinema 4D was easy to learn everything is in one program. Also the fact that to a large extent you can configure the program with the modules that you need. My biggest complaint with CInema 4D is that the character animation is really weak. At best with the IK you can do cartoons, in my experience, without using someother plugins to enhance Cinema’s IK system. But in terms of modeling I would say that Cinema ranks up there with the best of them. The one thing about Lightwave is that it is said to have a slightly more realistic render then Cinema. But of course this kindof subjective. For most things Cinema’s render should be fine, and its faster.
In terms of running it on your computer Cinema will run on anything and get as good of a performance as you’ll get on your machine. Programs like Lightwave the system requirements tend to make more of an impact on the performance.
Hope this helps…Good Luck
Simon Carlson-Thies -
this is most helpful. the articles I have been able to review line up with what you have stated. especially in terms of ease of use. I think my minds made up. thank you.
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