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[dextermovies]

Which one should I choose for graphics, animation and all of that ...

[FrazMasta]

dextermovies said:

Which one should I choose for graphics, animation and all of that ...

blender

www.blender.com

[dextermovies]

That goes to a site sbout music and has absolutly nothing to do with the topic... and what projects has blender been used on, any comercial projects (games or movies) ??

[moe]

He meant
www.blender.org
The site he mentioned contains samples where blender has been used (as far as I can tell)

Blender is free for use yet very professional. You can use it for games, movies and the like. You can even create a game completely with blender alone.

[Hodge]

On the topic of Maya vs 3d Studio Max I prefer Maya. It depends on the user really, each product does what it was designed to do. If you are looking for cheaper 3d tools try Milkshape and blender.

[Polar Sleuth]

My personal preference is LightWave 3D. If you are going for a commercial 3D package, it costs less but has all of the features the others do, plus its built-in renderer does animation without motion artifacts. LightWave 3D has won more Oscars and Emmys than any other package. Visit the Newtek website for a list of all the tv shows, movies, and games it has been used for ( http:\\www.newtek.com ).

[kariem2k]

would you like tea or coffee? i want lemonade. :)

IMHO Maya is better i am not talking about features but in the flexiblity of use,i did not get compfortable with using MAX, cinema4d nor Softimage.

i don't know why but i was using blender and wings3d and silo3d and i found the the imegration from one of them is easier to Maya than MAX.

thanks

[Francois Hamel]

On a side note...Autodesk (3dsmax) just bought Alias (Maya)... so... I think the comparaison between both will end pretty soon ;)

[roel]

True, Francois, but I doubt one of the products will disappear in a very short amount of time, I think that the two products will slowly become one.

[Francois Hamel]

yeah that's what I've heard also, or maybe one will take more of a movie path where the other one will mainly focus on games... we'll see

[Cybrid]

Well, I think that this is not the place to post a question like this, but, anyway, I think it's just a matter of witch soft are you more comfortable with.

[moe]

As you can see it is tuff to get a concrete input about witch tool to use.

- for graphics and animation
Pretty much every tool can handle this

- for scripting additional tools
Pretty much every tool can handle this

- <put in requested functionality>
Pretty much every tool can handle this

Just make sure you know your tool and you will be fine :)

I think the main question is how professional do you want it and how much money do you want to spend on it?
The most likely answer would be: as professional as possible and spend as little money as possible.
From this point of view blender really is a good choice :)

As far as I can tell the pros rather use maya where as the hobby coder rather use max and the main reason for this is a money issue as well.

If it comes to flexibility and customising the tool to your needs you are probably happier with maya. It’s just a guess though since I read more about maya when it comes to gamedev.

I suggest three things:
- visit the web-pages for both and look witch seams friendlier to you
- ask the same question on a 3d modelling site instead in a programmer’s forum
- ask yourself how much money you can spend on it