2006-11-21 22:33:36 · 7 answers · asked by vasanth s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
I'm also getting into 3D animation and mainly I've bee fiddling around with Lightwave 3D v7 to learn. I'm not very familiar with Maya and the other 3D programs mentioned, but from what I've run across Maya has similar capabilities to Lightwave.
I was mainly drawn to the program because it's been used in major movies and I want to eventually get into making movie-quality animation and special effects.
www.newtek.com
This is the main site for Lightwave, even if you don't pick it to learn on there are several dozen (written and video) tutorials that will provide you with a good idea of the terms, concepts, and work you'll be doing with a 3D animation program.
A bit of additional advice. I have an older computer (about 3 years old) and doesn't really have the capabilities to run Lightwave. I'm assuming that Maya and the other 3D programs are similar to Lightwave, in which case whatever program you decide to learn on it will need a video card with 3D graphics capability (like OpenGL), a lot of memory (to store all your objects and scenes), and a lot of proccessing power (to cruch all rendering data). If you have and older computer like I do you'll have to upgrade before you can really dive into 3D animation... it's one of the things that keeping me from really getting into it. Also good 3D programs aren't cheap the latest version of Lightwave (version 9) just came out a while back and its around $1,000 or so last time I checked, I figure similar programs will be about the same.
As for getting hired on as a trainee... haven't seen any places like that. I've been looking into video game programming courses (like DevryPowerUp) that include 3D modeling and animation as part of the course, but I don't have the money for that either, so right now I'm going very slowly trying to learn stuff myself until I can save up enough to get into a course. You might want to look into video programming courses if your looking for formal 3D animation lessons.
2006-11-22 02:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by Rukh 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Professional 3D Animation Software : http://3dAnimationCartoons.com/?VXAX
2016-05-10 16:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by Devorah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Going to varsity to develop right into a three-D animator..................... to affix the thousands of different three-D animator graduates available already on the unemployment line, because the marketplace is an really small one.
2016-11-29 08:59:59 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are going to be sat alone, working on never ending projects but...
is you have talent..it will be amazing when youre finnished
2006-11-21 23:32:10 · answer #4 · answered by catweazle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
join animaster or arena multimedia institutes.
2006-11-21 22:58:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you know how?
2006-11-22 01:46:46 · answer #6 · answered by rapp_girrrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK.
2006-11-21 22:40:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋