[Editing-Jos] “I’m forced to use lightwave for my 2.5D animation I’m doing right now :((
Just because I cannot control the camera in 3D space like I want.”
Yes, and Lightwave can’t composite like After Effects can… What’s the point? Use apps for what they are written for. No one application is going to be the “Swiss Army Knife” that contains all the tools to solve every possible need and situation.
Please heed people’s requests that you write your feature requests to aftereffects@adobe.com. If you don’t, please keep in mind that we can and do remove people who persist in beating the same tired drum day after day.
You seem like you can’t post without highjacking the topic and turning it into your private little rant on how AE isn’t what you want it to be. Well, you can talk yourself blue in the face or you can “learn the power of the workaround” until the day comes when all these tools do everything you wish. Over the years, I’ve learned that there is always a workaround and there are no perfect answers. The real creatives get their work done and the others bitch to the trees just to hear themselves talk and feel important.
In almost every major studio that Kathlyn and I have visited over the years, there are daily workarounds — often, very clever ones — and these creative solutions are what makes them worth the money and gets them the jobs.
That’s my two cents on it…
Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net