Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jan 21 23:30:45 CST 2014
Hi All: Until fairly recently, (about a year ago) there was not a great OS animation application. If you were in the business you would have to purchase such applications as Studiomax, XSI, Render and so on...not inexpensive to say the least. The problem was that not just one of the programs would allow a designer to create industry standards results...you would generally have to buy a suite of up to six products. Five years of university, to acquire a degree in arts and animation and then a potential ten grand worth of applications...not to mention the cost of the computer...the years of BYOD(?) If you went to work for an animation company, not everyone has the budget of Pixar (or the huge team of programmers), you would have to hope they could afford the latest product site licenses...many companies just can not afford to keep the development software current. Now there is just such an application for those of you who are starting in the business or just want to start your own contract animation studio. http://www.blender.org The application runs on all major platforms, 32 and 64bit. Here is a demoreel sample on what you could build using Blender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XZGulDxz9o Jim