advice on 3D animation programs?
Charboneau
Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
(under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
please respond by e-mail
Cheers,
Ben and Nick Charboneau
Bart Dabek
Hheheh, that's a nice system but I'm afraid that you won't be about to
find too many programs easier than COrel Motion 3d, and unless you're
planning on buying a used piece of software you won't be able to get a
cheap program like that.
Lee Dockstader
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Brian Knox
Charboneau wrote:
>
> Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
> (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
> would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
> 6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
> 40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
>
> please respond by e-mail
>
> Cheers,
> Ben and Nick Charboneau
I don't think you're going to find something that is (a) easy to use and
(b) under $150.
If you want dirt cheap, get point of view raytrace (free) and learn how
to use it. You can create fantastic animations with it. However, it
definitely won't be easy. There's a very steep learning curve with
povray (so steep that many people don't realize how powerful the program
actually is).
You might want to look at Truespace2/SE (the "light" version of
Truespace/2). It's way more limited than povray, but it's easier to
use.
The next step up from that would be Truespace/2 and Ray Dream Studio.
Those will probably cost you over $300 though.
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Jon Stone
Bart Dabek wrote:
>
> Charboneau wrote:
> >
> > Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
> > (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
> > would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
> > 6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
> > 40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
> >
> > please respond by e-mail
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben and Nick Charboneau
>
> find too many programs easier than COrel Motion 3d, and unless you're
> planning on buying a used piece of software you won't be able to get a
> cheap program like that.
Hey Try hash Animation Master. last I looked it was going for 159.00
It is a pretty good package.
Good luck....
Tom Repasky
In article 6D...@immunex.com, Jon Stone <jo...@immunex.com> writes:
>Bart Dabek wrote:
>>
>> Charboneau wrote:
>> >
>> > Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
>> > (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
>> > would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
>> > 6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
>> > 40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
Try caligari truespace SE $99.
Should work fine on your machine
Cheers
Tom
>> > please respond by e-mail
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Ben and Nick Charboneau
>>
>> Hheheh, that's a nice system but I'm afraid that you won't be about to
>> find too many programs easier than COrel Motion 3d, and unless you're
>> planning on buying a used piece of software you won't be able to get a
>> cheap program like that.
>
>Hey Try hash Animation Master. last I looked it was going for 159.00
>It is a pretty good package.
>Good luck....
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Przemyslaw Idzkiewicz
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Charboneau wrote:
> Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
> (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
> would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
> 6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
> 40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
>
> please respond by e-mail
>
> Cheers,
> Ben and Nick Charboneau
>
>
Maybe Caligari trueSpace 2.0 could be suitable for you. It has
good animation tools and a great modeller (I mean it's not the
best thing to do very exact models). The greatest thing about it
is that you see what you do . . .
sth.
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Truespace one isn't bad if you take a few hours to read and become
familiar with the interface. I have seen some VERY complex animations
done with it and the program is CHEAP!
Try out the freeware demo first to see if it will meet your needs.
You can get it at caligari's home page www.caligari.com or something like
that. Anyway, it's the first animator that I ever used and I still think
it's okay. Heck, you don't have time to learn that much during your high
school years anyway.
good luck.
Royal Meservy
Crystal Dragon
Brian Knox <bk...@richmond.infi.net> wrote in article
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> Charboneau wrote:
> >
> > Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
> > (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
> > would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
> > 6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
> > 40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
> >
> > please respond by e-mail
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben and Nick Charboneau
> You might want to look at Truespace2/SE (the "light" version of
> Truespace/2). It's way more limited than povray, but it's easier to
> use.
I use TrueSpace / SE for a lot of my modeling, and it works great. Just
don't try to render anything you want used for public consumption with it.
That's what POV-Ray is for. :-)
I picked it up at a retail store for $ 99. The animation is -EXTREMELY-
easy to set up and use though, so I'd reccomend it as a good starting
place.
Crystal Dragon.
James Wohlever
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:24:11 -0800, Jon Stone <jo...@immunex.com>
wrote:
>Hey Try hash Animation Master. last I looked it was going for 159.00
>It is a pretty good package.
Actually, Hash Animation Master is about $600.
But Hash Animation Pro is about $160 tp $200
Thank you,
James Wohlever
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Przemyslaw Idzkiewicz wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Charboneau wrote:
>
> > Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
> > (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
> > would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
> > 6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
> > 40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
> >
> > please respond by e-mail
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben and Nick Charboneau
> >
> >
>
> Maybe Caligari trueSpace 2.0 could be suitable for you. It has
> good animation tools and a great modeller (I mean it's not the
> best thing to do very exact models). The greatest thing about it
> is that you see what you do . . .
> sth.
>
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Brian Knox wrote:
>
> Charboneau wrote:
> >
> > Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
> > (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
> > would like something easy to use. Currently we are using Corel Motion
> > 6.0, which is pretty difficult and slow. We are running a P-120 with
> > 40mB of RAM. Thank you for your advice.
> >
> > please respond by e-mail
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben and Nick Charboneau
>
> (b) under $150.
>
> If you want dirt cheap, get point of view raytrace (free) and learn how
> to use it. You can create fantastic animations with it. However, it
> definitely won't be easy. There's a very steep learning curve with
> povray (so steep that many people don't realize how powerful the program
> actually is).
>
> Truespace/2). It's way more limited than povray, but it's easier to
> use.
>
> Those will probably cost you over $300 though.
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I've been using Truespace/SE for about 6 months and have found it to be
a good intro and practice. It can pull in models from a variety of different
programs. In my limited experience it has a lot of the other programs beat
for textures. Also you get a good upgrade price to TS2 when you're ready to go
further.
Things TS/SE can't do:
boolean operations on objects (only with polygons before they are extruded)
colors/textures can't be changed during animation (can fool it with lighting, but its a pain)
can't use AVI's as background or textures
there's a bunch more but those are the one's I wish it would do. TS2 can do those
and a heck of a lot more.
I have managed some interesting effects and some saleable product for the training
market, so TS/SE is not a waste.
The only trouble I've had with it is that it wasn't written for Win '95 so it has
a tendancy to crash if to much else is going on.
Good Luck
-Jim
Donald T. McFall
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jcm...@eserver2.ca.boeing.com says...
>Brian Knox wrote:
>> Charboneau wrote:
>> > Would anyone know of a good 3D animation program that is inexpensive
>> > (under $150)? We are high school students working on video editing and
>>
>> Truespace/2). It's way more limited than povray, but it's easier to
>> use.
>
>a good intro and practice. It can pull in models from a variety of different
>programs. In my limited experience it has a lot of the other programs beat
>for textures. Also you get a good upgrade price to TS2 when you're ready to
I'd concur -- it's very easy to pick up TS2 and get modeling right away with
it. I'm not exactly sure how much TS2 SE is, as I haven't used it. I have
used Imagine and 3DSr4 and wouldn't recommend either of them for ease of use.
The Caligari TrueSpace 2 bible is a pretty good book for it. I don't deal much
with animations in TrueSpace (just models for a game).
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Leo Boutette
You might want to try Imagine 4.0 which was included with PC format,
December 1996. Good modelling capability. And upgradeable to a Windows
version for < $100.